Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Monday, September 13, 2010

OBIEE 11g: Import metadata, connection problems.

Importing metadata aught to be a simple: Hit File - > Import Metadata, punching in db and user name and finish it of with password then select what you want to import. It is if your lucky. The pitfall that got me was that OBIEE 11g install it's own Oracle client.
Fine, so what? It is in this clients tnsnames.ora that it looks up servicenames. Which means that you have to have the correct tnsnames entries in {Oracle_BI1}\network\admin\tnsnames.ora and not that of your database.

OBIEE 11g the first disappointment.

After about an hour of fiddling about and reading documentation I finally got the OBIEE 11g image to work. Even before I log into analytics I meet my first disappointment. Really it is a very small thing, but still annoying that they haven't fixed it.

So here it goes. When you come to the login page, you naturally start filling it from the top towards the bottom. So you enter user id and password. Then you notice that the server has a different default language than what you prefere. So you switch from default to what ever your preference is. The problem is that this trigger a reload of the page, so that your user id and password field is empty and you have to fill it out again. This is the kind of things that annoy user, and it is a bad first meeting with a product.