Working with Actions

This chapter describes how to work with actions in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. It describes how to use actions to navigate to related content and to invoke operations, functions, or processes in external systems and explains how to add actions to analyses, dashboard pages, agents, KPIs, and initiatives and objectives in scorecards.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• "What Are Actions?"

• "What Are Action Links and Action Link Menus?"

• "What Action Types Are Available?"

• "Who Can Create Actions?"

• "Where Can I Add Actions?"

• "What Are Named Actions?"

• "What Are Inline Actions?"

• "How Will Actions Created in Previous Releases Be Upgraded?"

• "What Are Action Parameters?"

• "About Conditionally Enabling Actions"

• "About Customizing Information Displayed to Users on Action Execution"

• "Creating Named Actions"

• "Specifying the Settings for New Actions"

• "Adding Actions to Analyses"

• "About Adding Actions to Dashboard Pages"

• "Adding Actions to Dashboard Pages Using Action Links"

• "Adding Actions to Dashboard Pages Using Action Link Menus"

• "Adding Actions to Agents"

• "Adding Actions to KPIs"

• "Adding Actions to Initiatives and Objectives in Scorecards"

• "Creating a New Action Based on an Existing Named Action"

• "Editing Named Actions"

• "Editing Actions and Action Links Added to Analyses"

• "Editing Actions, Action Links, and Action Link Menus Added to Dashboard Pages"

• "Editing Actions Added to Agents"

• "Editing Actions and Action Links Added to KPIs"

• "Editing Actions and Actions Links Added to Initiatives and Objectives in Scorecards"

• "Saving Inline Actions in Analyses to the Catalog"

• "Saving Inline Actions in Dashboards to the Catalog"

• "Executing a Named Action to Test It"