Wednesday, February 3, 2010

OBIEE Report Name Length

Please Please Please keep the report name length of your OBIEE below 55! Why?
1. Long report name are hard to read for the user; What is the difference between:
Leftover vacation days male employee fixed contracts age 21-30
and
Leftover vacation days male employee fixed contracts age 31-40
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2. They tend to run out of the dialog boxes:
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3. Over 55 characters OBIEE starts to hash the file name, so they are harder to find on the file system:
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4. If you want to use a scripting tool to create your reports, you will have to recreated the hash. This is almost impossible since Oracle will not tell the public how the Hash works.
5. A Little bird told that you might run into trouble when upgrading to 11g, they couldn’t confirm it was taken care of in the test program.
Till Nex Time

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