Creating logical dimensions with parentchild hierarchies in obiee a parentchild hierarchy is a hierarchy of members that all have the same type. We have obiee 11g, with a rich metadata layer that presents our underlying data model, even if it is transactional, as a star schema to the end user. But we are having a specialized hierarchy called time dimension hierarchy which will effectively used to create the calculated columns using time series function. Creating time dimension hierarchy oracle business intelligence.
This release is aimed at lifting existing obiee customers on par with oac in terms of functionalities. Jul 12, 2010 obiee 11g can handle this though with the new ragged and skiplevel support for levelbased hierarchies. Hierarchy, obiee 11g, ragged hierarchy in obiee 11g, skip level hierarchy in obiee 11g as a continuation with my previous blog post on value based hierarchies, let us see how to model ragged unbalanced and skip level hierarchies in obiee. Obiee 10g 11g presentation columnattribute columns obiee 10g 11g period to period comparison with the ago function. Through this tutorial, you will learn obiee architecture, components, dimensional modeling, schema, data analysis, report generation, drilling down data and dimensional hierarchies. Consists of values that define the hierarchy in a parentchild relationship and does not contain named levels. This service request below is a demo of how an incorrectly defined key in the beginning can block the development efforts in the future.
Jul 04, 2014 this obiee 11g video training tutorial demonstrates how to create dimension hierarchies in the business model and mapping layer bmm. One or more logical dimension tables can be associated with at most one dimension object. Obiee11g building logical dimension hierarchy slideshare. Introduction to oracle business intelligence enterprise. Classic example for this would be the time dimension.
If the dimension does not have a default hierarchy, then the plugin exports the first hierarchy of the dimension. Bi ee can accommodate such possible multiple hierarchies within the same dimension. All the steps in metadata builders guide for setting up parent child hierarchy were followed but when displaying account hierarchy column in. Also download the corresponding repository creation utility. This tutorial covers the creation of oracle business intelligence enterprise edition obiee metadata for access to oracle database 11g olap option data and calculations by using the oracle olap 11g analytic workspace manager plugin for obiee. Presentation hierarchies and presentation levels provide an explicit way to expose the multidimensional model in oracle bi answers. Dimension hierarchies in datawarehousing obiee 11g tips. Level based hierarchy and parentchild hierarchy a hierarchy is a cascaded series of manytoone relationships and consists of different levels.
Customers who for whatever reason do not want or can not move to the cloud. One of the import step in time dimension hierarchy creation is creating chronological key for each level. If the first hierarchy is a levelbased hierarchy, then the plugin also exports any other levelbased hierarchy that shares the same lowest level as the first hierarchy. Hierarchy dimensional hierarchy in obiee hierarchy. Creating hierarchies in the presentation layer enables users to create hierarchy based queries. The oracle application layer or popularly known as the fusion middleware layer is built upon a common domainbased architecture that can support as a set of common core functionality like security, scalability etc across various oracle products. Obiee 11g has a way to handle null problems easily.
Obiee tutorial learn obiee from experts intellipaat. Its extremely exciting to see the breadth and depth of obiee 11g features. Hierarchies level based hierarchy in obiee 11g a hierarchy is a cascaded series of manytoone relationships and consists of different levels. With our extreme bi solution, we have tools to counter both of those reasons. In 11g, you can add that hierarchy to the presentation level. Many mistakes happen because of incorrectly defined time dimension or other dimensions. For example, one possible hierarchy in the time dimension is year quarter month day. So if we want to change the current running rpd and catalog in obiee 10g we are opening the file and we are changing the rpd name and catalog name into these files. This setup number is used by the oracle bi server when defining strategy for picking optimal aggregate physical source for a query. But mostly well discuss the single most important thing to know about the rpd. Dimension hierarchies in obiee11g a hierarchy is a cascaded series of manytoone relationships and consists of different levels. This is a levelbased hierarchy and will be used to show. Obiee 11g creating column selector and view selector views. Now again coming back to our question how are level based measures created.
So im left with only 3 days it also fits very nicely with the not perfect data of the sample. Now drag hierarchy logical dimension to the presentation folder. Here is an example of what these hierarchies enable you to do. Its just we have to mark those dimensions as ragged or skipped level and rest will be taken care of. Each logical level of each dimensional hierarchy contains a setup named number of elements at this level. Unable to expand parent child hierarchy in obiee 11g. The physical to logical mapping can also be used to specify transformations that occur between the physical layer and the business model and mapping layer, as well as to enable aggregate navigation and fragmentation. I briefly i touched on a few administration tasks such as starting and stopping the obiee components, but in this posting i want to look at this topic in more detail, looking at where all the various files have gone and how you perform basic administration on the system. Then by selecting the properties for user option make sure to enable the level of log to 2.
The following sections explain how to create dimensions. Creating logical dimensions with levelbased hierarchies. In 10g and 11g in 10g we dont need to drag the dimensional. This obiee tutorial will help you learn obiee basics on your way to becoming an obiee certified professional. Obiee 11g sort order not working when using hierarchy column. All hierarchies must have a common leaf level and a common root all level. Obiee 11g dimension hierarchies obiee online training. In this post, i am giving how i have created a sample time dimension hierarchy. Enable the definition of facts, dimensions and hierarchies that are. Mar 11, 20 one of the features of obiee 11g is hierarchical columns. How to deal with multiple hierarchy on same dimension. One to many relationship among columns is called as level based hierarchies. Status is a column which is mapped to both tables and this column is on logical level sr.
Types of hierarchies in obiee 11g april 14, 20 obiee supports various kinds of hierarchies. The subject area appears in the workspace when you click the answers link from any location in the obiee application. Created a account parent child hierarchy in obiee 11g. Obiee 11g sort order not working when using hierarchy column doc id 1924905. Obiee how to work with logical dimension objects in bmm. The dimension hierarchy is created in the bmm layer in the obiee rpd and based on it we can decide at which level of a particular dimension do we actually need to see the measure. The diagram above shows obiee application layer architecture.
Always create a dimension hierarchy for all dimensions, even if there is only one level. Obiee 10g11g hierarchy drill down orand drill through orand drill chaining obiee 10g supports level based hierarchy, with obiee 11g enhancements it supports level based as well as value based hierarchies with some additional configurations. Obiee 11g presentation hierarchy hierarchical column obiee 11g new features and changes 11g. Rules for automatically creating dimensions and levelbased hierarchies. Accept the license agreement and download the files for a particular platform.
In the business model and mapping layer, a dimension object represents a hierarchical organization of logical columns attributes. Obiee 10g support levelbased, valuebased hierarchies but obiee 11g supports two more hierarchies. Fusion middleware metadata repository builders guide for oracle business. Download, install and configure epm on the obiee server. Rpd upload repository files are uploaded through ui. Obiee 11g calling teradata stored procedure 3 years ago obiee tips and tricks. This i think is one of the most important concept in obiee and powerful too. Dimensions with levelbased hierarchies structured hierarchies members of the same type occur only at a single level. Deploying rpd and catalog in bi 11g in obiee 10g the current running rpd and catalog files are configured in two files called i and instanceconfig. Obiee 10g11g dimension hierarchy logical dimensions. Only for 11g you can expose logical dimensions to oracle bi answers users by creating presentation hierarchy objects that are based on particular logical dimensions. Creating hierarchies in the presentation layer enables users to create hierarchybased queries.
The service request hierarchy is built up by the following levels. According to dw consultant, ralph kimball, dimensional modeling is a desig. Creating and managing dimensions with levelbased hierarchies. Its proven architecture and common infrastructure producing and delivering enterprise reports, scorecards, dashboards, adhoc analysis, and olap analysis provides a rich enduser experience. Using apache drill as a jdbc data source in obiee 12c. Obiee dimension logical table obiee the business model and mapping bmm obiee 10g 11g levelbased measure calculations. The hierarchy is a level based structure where we can drill down the data from highest level to lowest level also we can roll up the data. In the obiee 11g administration tool, go to the mange option and then select the security option. Q4 mention the method of the sort of reports in case of obiee 11g. Significance of level all in dimensional hierarchy in obiee. A logical dimension represents a hierarchical organization of logical columns belonging to a single logical dimension table. Jun 12, 2015 role of dimensional hierarchies in data analysis olap. To create a presentation hierarchy, drag a logical dimension hierarchy from the bmm layer to a table in the presentation layer. Obiee a dimension hierarchies hierarchies is a series of manytoone relationships and can be of different levels.
Obiee tutorial a beginner guide by obiee professionals. Every hierarchy have certain levels and every attribute is associated with the certain hierarchy. Feb 12, 2017 65000 rows csv limit hidden parameter. Dimensional hierarchies are built by obiee repository developers in conjunction with the owners of the data, to allow users to drill down into dimensional data.
Obiee 10g 11g dimension hierarchy logical dimensions obiee subject area presentation catalog. Skip level hierarchy in obiee 11g its all about business. This contrasts with levelbased hierarchies, where members of the same type occur only at a single level of the hierarchy. Nov 19, 20 07 creating dimensional hierarchies hierarchies are 3 three types. Obiee 11g dimension hierarchies obiee online training youtube.
The natural drill down is supported and can be configured to support drill through also. Technically from the administration side, its not a big issue. To create a presentation hierarchy, you can drag a logical dimension hierarchy from the business model and mapping. For example, an employee hierarchy might have no levels, but instead have names of employees who are managed by other employees. Oracle business intelligence enterprise edition 11g. Export and import bar files in obiee 12c what is bar. Consider an employee and manager table with the following hierarchy. Download the obiee 11g versionfrom here or from oracle edelivery site and extract all the four disk into a single folder and click setup. Mar 12, 20 i can now remove some of the days from the list as well, for example the last 32 days. Example, a region hierarchy is defined with the levels region, state, and city. Jun 08, 2012 remember the two reasons that we build dimensional models. Obiee 11g dimension hierarchies obiee online training duration. Sep 10, 20 dimensional hierarchies in obiee are used for a variety of important features in the rpd, many of which you may not know about. Each business model can have one or more dimensions, each dimension can have one or more logical levels, and each logical level has one or more attributes columns associated with it.
Rpdbusiness model layer first of al the original inspiration for these golden rules series are based on the 20 golden rules for repository design from the people at peak indicators. A case study building financial report and dashboard using obiee part ithis is a 1st document in the series of building financial reports and dashboard taking essbase as datasource. A parentchild logical dimension is a hierarchy of members that all have the. See working with presentation hierarchies and levels for more information. Creating logical dimensions with hierarchies allows you to build levelbased measures, define aggregation rules that vary by dimension, provide drill down on charts and tables in analyses and dashboards, and define the content of aggregate sources. To create logical dimensions with levelbased hierarchies, you perform the following steps. Obiee 11g building logical dimension hierarchy this is another document from our obiee11g beginners guide series.
Hierarchies in obiee 11g part 1 its all about business. A parentchild hierarchy is a hierarchy of members that all have the same type. Creating logical dimensions with levelbased hierarchies in obiee. Hierarchies plays a vital role in data analysis process olap in data warehousing. Creating logical dimensions with levelbased hierarchies in obiee in this set of steps you add logical dimension hierarchies to the business model.
Let us first understand a scenario suppose there are two fact tables sales and activity. Logical dimensions or dimensional hierarchies are created in bmm layer. It does this by detecting nulls in either leaf levels for ragged hierarchies or other levels for skiplevel hierarchies and use this to modify how the new hierarchical column type in answers handles the missing levels. In time dimension we can have a hierarchy based on calendar year, quarter, month and day and the fiscal year, quarter, month and day. Obiee 10g supports level based hierarchy, with obiee 11g enhancements it supports level based as well as value based hierarchies with some additional configurations. Mar 31, 2010 pete scott said if you are using an obi dimension object in the business logical layer then you need to make sure that the all of the columns belonging to a level are added to the level so the month level in the dimension should have both the month key and the month description. Dec 07, 2012 obiee11g building logical dimension hierarchy 1. Creating logical dimensions with parentchild hierarchies. Obiee configure level number of elements in dimensional hierarchies. Obiee i about the tutorial oracle business intelligence enterprise edition obiee is a business intelligence bi tool by oracle corporation. The single most important thing to know about the obi rpd. Logical table sources define the mappings from a single logical table to one or more physical tables.
Levelbased hierarchy and parentchild hierarchy a hierarchy is a cascaded series of manytoone relationships and consists of different levels. Hierarchical table feature is a new addition to obiee 11g. To create an hierarchy out of this parent child table we follow the steps as detailed below. Dimensional hierarchies in obiee goran ocko sep 23, 2009 8. These hierarchy attributes, called levels, roll up from child to parent, for example, customer totals can roll up to subregion totals which can further rollup to region totals. The dimensions and their hierarchical levels to be used in this class are shown below.
You can also transmit the hierarchy metadata from obiee to the. Let us start with hierarchies and see how to implement different types of hierarchies in bi 11g with step by step example. Obiee 11g presentation hierarchyhierarchical column. The specification of levels that represents relationship between different attributes within a dimension. Obiee 11g hierarchical columns and selection steps. Patlaf download and setup obiee 11g usage tracking 11. The presentation layer appears in the left pane of the oracle bi administration tool and contains a group of subject areas that represent information about your institution or groups of users within your institution. Unlike the situation with levelbased hierarchies, all the dimension members of a parentchild hierarchy occur in a single logical column. For example, a company might want to measure its revenue based on the country, based on the region, and based on the city. Level based measure in obiee a levelbased measure is a column whose values are always calculated to a specific level of aggregation. This video shows how to build a level based dimensional hierarchy in obiee.
A decision which is valid in and of itself as not everything or everybody has to go to the cloud. As we know, when we create multiple hierarchies the leaf node should be same in both the hierarchies, in that case guide me how to deal with different leaf nodes on the same dimension table. Unbalanced hierarchies 11g new features level based hierarchies. A hierarchy is a set of parentchild relationships between attributes within a dimension. Note that you can also expose dimension hierarchies by adding one or more columns from each hierarchy level to a subject area in the presentation layer. Oracle business intelligence enterprise edition 11g obiee is a comprehensive business intelligence platform that delivers a full range of capabilitiesincluding interactive dashboards, ad hoc queries, notifications and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, scorecard and strategy management, business process invocation. Role of dimensional hierarchies in data analysis olap. If your source is olap, you will get it by default, for each hierarchy. Posts about dimension hierarchy written by amit sharma. A hierarchy can be created when a parent child table exists.
Business intelligence suite enterprise edition version 11. In a parentchild hierarchy, the parent of a member is in another row in the same logical column, pointed to by the parent key. Creating obiee metadata for olap 11g cubes purpose. There are many things which were constrained till previous release, 11g fixed most of them. Each level of a dimension hierarchy should have its number of elements appropriately set there is a utility in tools that can do this automatically. All you need to do in the administration is mark, in the logical dimensions you want to use as hierarchical columns. Obiee a dimensional modeling dimensional modeling provides set of methods and concepts that are used in dw design. Manually creating dimensions, levels, and keys with levelbased hierarchies. Obiee configure level number of elements in dimensional. In earlier versions of obiee 11g, you could download more than 65000 rows. May 15, 2011 financial reporting rpd using obiee 1. Dimension hierarchies in datawarehousing role of dimensional hierarchies in data analysis olap. Hi, how can we pass the prompts to dimensional hierarchy pulled in reports in a dashboard.
Obiee 11g hierarchical columns introduction one of the features of obiee 11g is hierarchical columns. Metadata modeling in the database with analytic views. Significance of level all in dimensional hierarchy in obiee 12 feb. This post will explore the fundamental reason for their existence and some specialized features that require their existence. Hierarchy is a series of manytoone relationships and can be of different levels. This obiee 11g video training tutorial demonstrates how to create dimension hierarchies in the business model and mapping layer bmm. This video shows how to create logical dimensions with levelbased hierarchies.
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