Thursday, October 29, 2009

How to Change OBIEE URL address

Intended audience : All Siebel Analytics Developers, Administrators


Requirement : Siebel Analytics/OBI application to be accessed as http://servername (e.g. : http://localhost/ )instead of http://server/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard

For more details refer here
Level : Medium
Solution :
Backup your server’s C:\inetpub\wwwroot directory
Lets Assuming my current Siebel application is working fine with address as http://localhost/analytics/saw.dll?dashboard














Now I have created two files index.html and move.html as below shown

Index.html

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

<html>

<head><title>My OBIEE Application</title></head>

<frameset rows="0%,100%">

<frame src="" noresize="noresize">

<frame src="move.html">

</frameset>


</html>


move.html
<html>

<Head>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://localhost/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard">

</head>

</html>

Copy above HTML code into files and save them as index.html and move.html respectively.

Change url=http://localhost/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard to your domain eg: http://ent-reporting/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard or http://ent-reporting:9704/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard i.e., your current working url to be given in this place.

Upload both index.html and move.html into your server’s root directory ..i.e. C:\inetpub\wwwroot

Now access http://servername








Advantages :




Your server is still accessible through old url (http://localhost/analytics/saw.dll?dashboard), so any links referring will not be broken and still accessible.

Simple url, Easy to remember.

Disadvantages :
While Bookmarking a request /Dashboard necessary you have to use right click >Add to favorites. Ctrl+D will not work.

Hope it’s helpful.
-Niranjan K :)

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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