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This section describes new features for Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6). It contains the following topics:
New features in Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6.2) include:
Enhancements to Views
This release includes enhancements to various view types, including those in the following list:
Trellis view is a new view type that presents multi-dimensional data laid out in a set of cells in a grid, with each cell displaying a subset of data shown as numbers or as graphs. The trellis view allows users to display multiple views all at once for quick comparison, and to display data that reveals trends.
See "Editing Trellis Views" for information.
Microchart is a new graph type that presents data as text-sized graphics appearing together within a grid. Used exclusively in the trellis view, this graph type allows users to easily discover trends.
See "What Are Microcharts?" for information.
For map views, you can include lines as a new format, you can control the transparency of certain formats, and you can set the initial view port for maps.
See "Editing Map Views" for information.
Enhancement to Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management
This releases includes the following enhancements to Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management:
The ability to reorder objects in the "Initiatives pane" and the "Strategy pane" in scorecards using cut and paste options in the right-click menu. For more information, see "Right-Click Menu for Objects in the Initiatives Pane and Strategy Pane".
The ability to create smart watchlists. A smart watchlist is a view into a particular scorecard based on criteria that you specify. For example, you might create a smart watchlist that shows the top ten KPIs in a scorecard based on best performance. For more information, see "What Are Smart Watchlists?"
Target Settings Functionality For KPIs
This release includes target settings functionality for KPIs. Target settings allow the content designer to mark a KPI's Actual Value and Target Value fields as writeable. The end user with the proper privileges and security settings can then modify and save the KPI's actual and target values. This feature is for Oracle Essbase data sources, only. For more information, see "What Are Target Settings?"
New features in Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6.0) include:
Auto-Complete Functionality for Prompts
This release contains auto-complete functionality for prompts. When enabled by the administrator, auto-complete suggests and highlights matching prompt values as the user types in the prompt selection field. Auto-complete can be excluded or included on dashboards, and users can turn auto-complete off for their accounts. For more information, see "What Is Auto-Complete?"
Optional Apply and Reset Buttons for Prompts
You can show or hide a prompt's apply and reset buttons. If the designer chooses to hide the apply button, then the specified prompt value is immediately applied to the dashboard or analysis. For more information, see "Dashboard builder", "Dashboard Properties dialog", and "Edit Page Settings dialog".
Miscellaneous Prompts Enhancements
The following prompts enhancements were added:
The prompt Reset button now provides three reset options: Reset to last applied values, Reset to default values, and Clear All. For information about these options, see "Dashboard Properties dialog".
In the "Dashboard builder", the dashboard designer can add the Edit and Copy links to the dashboard's prompts. These links display at runtime, and users with the proper privileges can click them to edit the prompt or copy the prompt's link.
The row-based layout prompt option was added to the prompt editor's "Definition pane". As a result, you can now specify a row-based or column-based layout for your prompts.
Favorites
This release introduces Favorites, which allows you to bookmark as favorites the catalog objects that you view regularly or want to view again at another time. You can use the "Manage Favorites dialog" to organize your favorites into categories, and you can view your favorites list and open your favorite objects from the global header's Favorites menu. For more information, see "What Are Favorites?"
Customizable Global Header and Get Started .... Section of the Home Page
The order of the links on the global header can now be customized, and links to external locations can be added to the global header. The Get Started... section of the home page can also be customized to meet the informational needs of the users. The Administrator implements these customizations and when users log into Oracle BI EE, they see these customizations. For more information, see "What Is the Oracle BI EE Global Header?" and "Home page".
Oracle BI Client Installer Option Added to the Home Page
A link to the Oracle BI Client Installer has been added to the Download BI Desktop Tools option, which is located in the Get Started... section of the Home Page. User's with the proper privilege can click this option to download and install the Business Intelligence Administration Tool and the Oracle Business Intelligence Job Manager. For more information, see "Home page".
Integrated Full-Text Search Capabilities
This release provides a fully integrated full-text search. This search is available after the administrator integrates Oracle BI Enterprise Edition with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search. This method of searching allows the user to find objects by searching on their attributes such as author and column name. For more information, see "Full-Text Catalog Search".
Ability to Set Accessibility Mode in the Sign In Page
In this release, the "Sign In page" has been enhanced to include the Accessibility Mode box, which allows you to specify whether you want content for Oracle BI EE to be rendered in a browser in a way that facilitates the use of a screen reader. For more information, see "Signing In to Oracle BI Enterprise Edition".
Enhancement to Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management
This release includes the addition of a contribution wheel diagram to a strategy tree, which allows you to view an objective and its supporting child objectives and KPIs hierarchically in a circular diagram. For more information, see "Understanding a Contribution Wheel Diagram".
Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile
Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile is now documented in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile.
Enhancements to Map Views
In this release, map views have been enhanced in various ways:
You can include non-BI layers on a map view, as described in "Editing Map Views".
You can use the marquee zoom feature to zoom into a specific area of the map view, as described in "Zooming in Map Views".
Enhancements to Selections
The release includes the following enhancement to selections:
The ability to include selected members in hierarchy selections steps that are based on family relationships. For more information, see "Select Values dialog".
The addition of Siblings of and Leaves of options in family relationships. For more information, see "Select Values dialog".
If the content designer adds a selection step that includes a condition with a qualified data reference (QDR), the QDR now displays in the Selection Steps pane. For more information about QDRs, see "New Condition Step dialog".
The "All X values where Y = values" condition type was added. This condition type is available for attribute columns and hierarchical columns. The Column field was added to the New Condition Step dialog for this condition type. For more information, see "New Condition Step dialog".
Enhancements to Views
This release includes the following enhancements to views:
The ability to rename views and compound layouts. For more information, see "Renaming Views or Compound Layouts".
The Selection Steps view was added. This view when added to an analysis, displays the selection steps in effect for the analysis. For more information, see "Results tab: Selection Steps editor".
Enhancements to Tables and Pivot Tables
In this release, tables and pivot tables have been enhanced to allow you to:
Select the measure on which to sort a column in a pivot table. For more information, see "Sorting Options Menu".
Specify how columns that are added to an analysis from the "Analysis editor: Criteria tab" after displaying the analysis results are handled. For more information, see "Analysis Properties dialog: Data tab".
Set additional interactions on the right-click menu, for example, Include column, Show Running Sum, interactions for selection steps, and so on. For more information, see "Right-Click Menu for Data Views".
Specify which interactions (for example, Drill) are available when you right-click in an analysis or a dashboard at runtime. For more information, see "Analysis Properties dialog: Interactions tab".
BI Composer Enhancements
This release includes the following enhancements to BI Composer:
The ability to use BI Composer in regular mode as well accessibility mode. (In the previous release, BI Composer was available only in accessibility mode. For more information, see "Availability of BI Composer in Oracle BI Enterprise Edition".
The ability to perform the following tasks when creating an analysis using BI Composer:
Add or remove subject areas from which to select columns
Specify column interactions, such as drill
Specify whether columns are hidden
Rename columns
Specify column formulas
Show how results look on a dashboard
Show the XML code for the analysis
For more information, see "Creating Analyses Using BI Composer".
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