select * from
(
SELECT
o100588.doc_name workbook_name,
— o100588.doc_developer_key workbook_key,
decode(o100590.ex_to_type, ‘ITE’, ‘Item’, ‘JOI’, ‘Join’, ‘FIL’, ‘Condition’, o100590.ex_to_type) dependency_type,
o100590.ex_to_par_name folder,
(decode(SUBSTR(o100590.ex_to_name, 1, 19), ‘AUTO_GENERATED_NAME’, (decode(o100590.ex_to_type, ‘JOI’, (decode((decode(o100590.ex_to_type, ‘JOI’, EUL_US.EUL5_get_join_expid(o100590.ex_to_id, o100590.ex_to_devkey), to_number(NULL))), NULL, NULL, EUL_US.EUL5_get_join((decode(o100590.ex_to_type, ‘JOI’, EUL_US.EUL5_get_join_expid(o100590.ex_to_id, o100590.ex_to_devkey), to_number(NULL)))))), ‘ITE’, (decode((decode(o100590.ex_to_type, ‘ITE’, o100590.ex_to_id, to_number(NULL))), NULL, NULL, EUL_US.EUL5_get_autogen_item_name((decode(o100590.ex_to_type, ‘ITE’, o100590.ex_to_id, to_number(NULL)))))), ‘FIL’, (decode((decode(o100590.ex_to_type, ‘FIL’, o100590.ex_to_id, to_number(NULL))), NULL, NULL, o100590.ex_to_name)), NULL)), o100590.ex_to_name)) Dependency_name ,
o100590.ex_to_par_devkey folder_key,
(
select sobj_ext_table from EUL_US.EUL5_OBJS
where obj_developer_key=o100590.ex_to_par_devkey
) Table_View
, o100590.ex_to_devkey Dependency_key
FROM EUL_US.EUL5_documents o100588,
EUL_US.EUL5_elem_xrefs o100590
WHERE(((to_number(o100590.ex_from_id)) = o100588.doc_id))
AND(o100588.doc_content_type = ‘application/vnd.oracle-disco.wb’)
and ( o100588.doc_id = 0 or lower(o100588.doc_name) like lower(’%') )
)
where lower(dependency_name) like lower(’%column_name%’)

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R12 uses new Security Policies and for Receivables, it uses Views starting with ARFG
Please follow the following steps :
1. Create a new responsibility with Accounts Payables/ Accounts Receivables as Application. (skip this if you already have custom responsibilities)
2. Set the profile options necessary for AP / AR like MO: Operating Unit ,MO: Security Profile
3. Do the necessary setup required for GL like segment rules and profile options
4. Set the system profile option: ‘Initialization SQL Statement – Custom’ for the responsibility to value
‘Begin GL_SECURITY_PKG.init(); end;’ .
5. Login to Receivables responsibility and you will get discoverer data for AP, AR and GL.

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The cause for this no data in workbook issue is incomplete BIS setups

The “FII: GL BIS Discoverer access” profile option was not granted to the custom responsibility or to the Oracle “Applications Administrator” responsibility (used to administer the Discoverer EUL).

If this option is not set, no data will be returned in standard/seeded Discoverer GL workbooks.

How to fix this

1. Login as Sysadmin and System Administrator responsibility

Navigate to Profile => System

Enter ‘Yes’ in the highlighted field under responsibility

Save the settings and repeat the process for all other responsibilities that would access the GL Business area

Refresh the EUL and check if you are able to see the data. You will need to restart Discoverer Plus. Restart Oracle applications if you are launching Discoverer Plus from within Oracle apps.

This assumes that you have followed through all the installation steps in the document

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Step 1:
======

/* Create funciton in Database base using APPS Schema */
Create or replace function disco_client_info
(workbook_name varchar2) return number is
BEGIN
--Set the client inforamtions
DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO.SET_CLIENT_INFO(fnd_global.user_id||'~'||fnd_global.resp_id||'~'||workbook_name);
return 1;
--
END disco_client_info;

Grant execute on disco_client_info to Public;


/* Grant execute privilege to Public */

Grant execute on disco_client_info to Public;

Step 2
=======
Register this function via the Discoverer Administrator

Step 3
=======
Call this function in Discoverer Desktop in all workbooks (which you want to monitor) as condition like below:

disco_client_info(’WORKBOOK_NAME’)=1

Since the function is always going to return 1 the condition will return true always.

Step 4
=======
If you run the below query you will get the information desired:

select module,client_info from v$session where module like 'Discoverer4';


Note: Module information ‘Discoverer4′ is set by Discoverer for Discoverer 4 version
using DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO.SET_MODULE. Change ‘Discoverer4′ to ‘Discoverer902′ for Discoverer 9.0.2 ,
‘Disco9′ for discoverer 9.0.4 and ‘Disco10′ for discoverer 10.1.X.

The draw back is, you are required to hardcode the workbook name in the condition since you can get workbook information dynamically only in title.

-submitted by Rajan

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After installing the trial version of the product and reviewing some of its capabilities, I instantly knew my corporation couldn’t do without this tool. Dealing with RudraSoft LLC in answering technical questions or providing extra information vital to my analysis has been very refreshing. It’s very rare in today’s technology market you receive true professional service. If you are in need of a tool that with delivering fast metadata on the Discoverer reports in your environment while saving countless person hours, InfoCaptor is definitely the product of choice”

That’s all for this year, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

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So what are the options? Oracle is putting all its force behind Siebel and we could see atleast one release of Discoverer. I think the best thing for Oracle would be to make Discoverer as a freeware tool.

Seeing MySQL as a threat, Oracle made its own version of database as a freeware. They already had Jdeveloper (a complete development environment) as freeware. So the only component that is missing as freeware is the BI and reporting piece.

Having a free Database + free Development tool + free reporting = more power to Oracle!

The more I think of this it becomes more compelling to release Oracle Discoverer as a freeware. If in future, Oracle doesn’t like to maintain or keep developing Discoverer then there is an alternative to make it Open Source. This could counter some of the threat from the open source BI companies like Pentaho and JasperSoft.

What do you think? Does it make sense to release Discoverer as a freeware tool?

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create or replace FUNCTION EUL4_GET_HIER_EXPID(HINAME IN VARCHAR2)
RETURN NUMBER IS
EXPID NUMBER(10);
--
--
HIID NUMBER(10);
HILHNID NUMBER(10);
--
--
--
CURSOR GET_HIID IS
SELECT HI_ID
FROM EUL4_HIERARCHIES
WHERE HI_NAME=HINAME;
--
--
CURSOR GET_HILHNID IS
SELECT IHS_HN_ID_CHILD
FROM EUL4_HI_SEGMENTS
WHERE IHS_HI_ID=HIID
AND IHS_HN_ID_CHILD NOT IN
(SELECT IHS_HN_ID_PARENT
FROM EUL4_HI_SEGMENTS
WHERE IHS_HI_ID=HIID);
--
--
CURSOR GET_EXPID IS
SELECT HIL_EXP_ID
FROM EUL4_IG_EXP_LINKS
WHERE HIL_HN_ID=HILHNID;
--
--
BEGIN
--
IF HINAME IS NULL THEN
EXPID:=NULL;
ELSE
--
OPEN GET_HIID;
FETCH GET_HIID INTO HIID;
IF GET_HIID%NOTFOUND THEN
EXPID:=-1;
RETURN EXPID;
END IF;
CLOSE GET_HIID;
--
OPEN GET_HILHNID;
FETCH GET_HILHNID INTO HILHNID;
IF GET_HILHNID%NOTFOUND THEN
EXPID:=-2;
RETURN EXPID;
END IF;
CLOSE GET_HILHNID;
--
OPEN GET_EXPID;
FETCH GET_EXPID INTO EXPID;
IF GET_EXPID%NOTFOUND THEN
EXPID:=-3;
END IF;
CLOSE GET_EXPID;
--
END IF;
RETURN EXPID;
END EUL4_GET_HIER_EXPID;
/

create or replace FUNCTION EUL4_GET_DATEHIER_TMPLT_NAME(IBHDBHID IN NUMBER)
RETURN VARCHAR2 IS
DATE_HIER_TMPLTE_NAME VARCHAR2(200);
--
--
--
--
--
CURSOR GET_DATEHIER_NAME IS
SELECT HI_NAME
FROM EUL4_HIERARCHIES
WHERE HI_ID=IBHDBHID
AND HI_TYPE='DBH';
--
--
--
--
BEGIN
--
--
IF IBHDBHID IS NULL THEN
DATE_HIER_TMPLTE_NAME:='ERROR - NOT ASSOCIATED TO A DATE HIERARCHY TEMPLATE';
ELSE
--
OPEN GET_DATEHIER_NAME;
FETCH GET_DATEHIER_NAME INTO DATE_HIER_TMPLTE_NAME;
IF GET_DATEHIER_NAME%NOTFOUND THEN
DATE_HIER_TMPLTE_NAME:='Error - Unable to find Date Hierarchy Template Name';
END IF;
CLOSE GET_DATEHIER_NAME;
END IF;
RETURN DATE_HIER_TMPLTE_NAME;
END EUL4_GET_DATEHIER_TMPLT_NAME;
/

create or replace FUNCTION EUL4_GET_FOLDERNAME(EXPID IN NUMBER)
RETURN VARCHAR2 IS
FLRNAME VARCHAR2(200);
--
--
--
--
--
CURSOR GET_FLDRNAM IS
SELECT OBJ_NAME
FROM EUL4_OBJS,EUL4_EXPRESSIONS
WHERE EUL4_OBJS.OBJ_ID=EUL4_EXPRESSIONS.IT_OBJ_ID
AND EUL4_EXPRESSIONS.EXP_ID=EXPID;
--
--
--
--
BEGIN
--
IF EXPID IS NULL THEN
FLRNAME:=NULL;
ELSE
OPEN GET_FLDRNAM;
FETCH GET_FLDRNAM INTO FLRNAME;
IF GET_FLDRNAM%NOTFOUND THEN
FLRNAME:='Error - Unable to find Folder Name';
END IF;
CLOSE GET_FLDRNAM;
END IF;
RETURN FLRNAME;
END EUL4_GET_FOLDERNAME;
/

create or replace FUNCTION EUL4_GET_HIERNODE_EXPID(HNID IN NUMBER)
RETURN NUMBER IS
EXPID NUMBER(10);
--
--
--
--
--
CURSOR GET_EXP_ID IS
SELECT HIL_EXP_ID
FROM EUL4_IG_EXP_LINKS
WHERE HIL_HN_ID=HNID
AND HIL_HN_ID IS NOT NULL;
--
--
--
--
BEGIN
--
OPEN GET_EXP_ID;
FETCH GET_EXP_ID INTO EXPID;
IF GET_EXP_ID%NOTFOUND THEN
EXPID:=NULL;
END IF;
CLOSE GET_EXP_ID;
RETURN EXPID;
END EUL4_GET_HIERNODE_EXPID;
/

create or replace FUNCTION EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPID IN NUMBER)
RETURN VARCHAR2 IS
DEP_ITEM VARCHAR2(4000);
--
--
CIDEXP        NUMBER;
EXPNAME        VARCHAR2(200);
--
--
-- This cursor finds out if the item is a complex item (ie. dependant on another item)
-- It retuns not rows if it has no dependancies (ie. simple folder)
--
CURSOR EXPOBJ IS
SELECT CID_EXP_ID,EXP_NAME
FROM EUL4_EXP_DEPS, EUL4_EXPRESSIONS
WHERE EUL4_EXP_DEPS.CD_EXP_ID = EXPID
AND CID_EXP_ID IS NOT NULL
AND EUL4_EXP_DEPS.CD_EXP_ID = EUL4_EXPRESSIONS.EXP_ID;
--
--
--
CURSOR GET_EXP_NAME IS
SELECT EXP_NAME
FROM EUL4_EXPRESSIONS
WHERE EXP_ID=EXPID;
--
--
--
--
BEGIN
--
IF EXPID IS NULL THEN
DEP_ITEM:=NULL;
ELSE
--
OPEN EXPOBJ;
FETCH EXPOBJ INTO CIDEXP,EXPNAME;
IF EXPOBJ%NOTFOUND THEN
OPEN GET_EXP_NAME;
FETCH GET_EXP_NAME INTO EXPNAME;
CLOSE GET_EXP_NAME;
END IF;
CLOSE EXPOBJ;
IF SUBSTR(EXPNAME,1,19) <> 'AUTO_GENERATED_NAME' THEN
DEP_ITEM:=EXPNAME;
RETURN DEP_ITEM;
ELSE
DEP_ITEM:=EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(CIDEXP);
END IF;
END IF;
RETURN DEP_ITEM;
END EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME;
/

create or replace FUNCTION EUL4_GET_JOIN(EXPID IN NUMBER,JOINAME IN VARCHAR2:='Y')
RETURN VARCHAR2 IS
JOIN VARCHAR2(4000);
--
-- If JOINAME is 'Y' then this returns the Autogenerated Join Name if it is 'N' or some other value it returns the the actual Join Details
--
--
JOIN_FORMULA    VARCHAR2(500);
JOIN_BIT    VARCHAR2(100);
JOIN_TYPE    VARCHAR2(20);
STARTPT     NUMBER :=1;
ENDPT        NUMBER :=1;
FINISHPT    NUMBER:=1;
EXPIDMSTR    NUMBER(10);
EXPIDDTL    NUMBER(10);
MASTERFLDR    VARCHAR2(4000);
DETAILFLDR    VARCHAR2(4000);
OPERATOR    VARCHAR2(10);
JOINMSTR    VARCHAR2(4000);
JOINDTL        VARCHAR2(4000);
CNTR        NUMBER :=0;
--
--
--
CURSOR GET_FORMULA IS
SELECT EXP_FORMULA1
FROM EUL4_EXPRESSIONS
WHERE EXP_TYPE='JP'
AND EXP_ID=EXPID;
--
--
--
--
BEGIN
--
IF EXPID IS NULL THEN
JOIN:='Name is just Too long to display';
ELSE
OPEN GET_FORMULA;
FETCH GET_FORMULA INTO JOIN_FORMULA;
IF GET_FORMULA%NOTFOUND THEN
JOIN:='Error - Unable to find Join';
END IF;
JOIN_BIT:=SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,3,4);
IF JOIN_BIT=',98]' THEN
JOIN_TYPE:='MULTI';
ELSE
JOIN_TYPE:='SINGLE';
END IF;
IF JOIN_TYPE='MULTI' THEN
FINISHPT:=LENGTH(JOIN_FORMULA);
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,3)+1;
ENDPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,4)-1;
EXPIDMSTR:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
MASTERFLDR:=EUL4_GET_FOLDERNAME(EXPIDMSTR);
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,5)+1;
ENDPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,6)-2;
EXPIDDTL:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
DETAILFLDR:=EUL4_GET_FOLDERNAME(EXPIDDTL);
IF upper(JOINAME)='Y' THEN
JOINMSTR:=MASTERFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDMSTR);
JOINDTL:=DETAILFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDDTL);
CNTR:=11;
WHILE INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR)<>0 LOOP
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-3)+1;
ENDPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-2)-1;
EXPIDMSTR:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-1)+1;
ENDPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR)-2;
EXPIDDTL:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
JOINMSTR:= JOINMSTR||','||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDMSTR);
JOINDTL:= JOINDTL||','||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDDTL);
CNTR:=CNTR+5;
END LOOP;
CNTR:=CNTR-1;
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-2)+1;
ENDPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-1)-1;
EXPIDMSTR:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR)+1;
ENDPT:=FINISHPT-2;
EXPIDDTL:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
JOINMSTR:= JOINMSTR||','||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDMSTR)||' -> ';
JOINDTL:= JOINDTL||','||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDDTL);
JOIN:=JOINMSTR||JOINDTL;
ELSE
JOINMSTR:=MASTERFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDMSTR);
JOINDTL:=DETAILFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDDTL);
IF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,11,2) = '81' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' = ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,11,2) = '82' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' <> ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,11,2) = '83' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' > ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,11,2) = '84' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' < ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,11,2) = '85' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' <= ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,11,2) = '86' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' >= ';
ELSE
OPERATOR:= ' ? ';
END IF;
JOIN:=JOINMSTR||OPERATOR||JOINDTL||CHR(10);
CNTR:=11;
WHILE INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR)<>0 LOOP
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-3)+1;
ENDPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-2)-1;
EXPIDMSTR:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-1)+1;
ENDPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR)-2;
EXPIDDTL:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
JOINMSTR:= MASTERFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDMSTR);
JOINDTL:= DETAILFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDDTL);
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-4)+1;
IF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '81' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' = ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '82' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' <> ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '83' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' > ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '84' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' < ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '85' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' <= ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '86' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' >= ';
ELSE
OPERATOR:= ' ? ';
END IF;
CNTR:=CNTR+5;
JOIN:=JOIN||JOINMSTR||OPERATOR||JOINDTL||CHR(10);
END LOOP;
CNTR:=CNTR-1;
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-2)+1;
ENDPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-1)-1;
EXPIDMSTR:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR)+1;
ENDPT:=FINISHPT-2;
EXPIDDTL:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
JOINMSTR:=MASTERFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDMSTR);
JOINDTL:=DETAILFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDDTL);
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,CNTR-3)+1;
IF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '81' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' = ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '82' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' <> ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '83' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' > ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '84' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' < ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '85' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' <= ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,2) = '86' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' >= ';
ELSE
OPERATOR:= ' ? ';
END IF;
JOIN:=JOIN||JOINMSTR||OPERATOR||JOINDTL;
END IF;
ELSE
FINISHPT:=LENGTH(JOIN_FORMULA);
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,2)+1;
ENDPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,3)-1;
EXPIDMSTR:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
MASTERFLDR:=EUL4_GET_FOLDERNAME(EXPIDMSTR);
STARTPT:=INSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,CHR(44),1,4)+1;
ENDPT:=FINISHPT-1;
EXPIDDTL:=TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,STARTPT,(ENDPT-STARTPT)));
DETAILFLDR:=EUL4_GET_FOLDERNAME(EXPIDDTL);
IF upper(JOINAME)='Y' THEN
JOINMSTR:=MASTERFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDMSTR)||' -> ';
JOINDTL:=DETAILFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDDTL);
JOIN:=JOINMSTR||JOINDTL;
ELSE
IF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,4,2) = '81' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' = ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,4,2) = '82' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' <> ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,4,2) = '83' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' > ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,4,2) = '84' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' < ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,4,2) = '85' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' <= ';
ELSIF SUBSTR(JOIN_FORMULA,4,2) = '86' THEN
OPERATOR:= ' >= ';
ELSE
OPERATOR:= ' ? ';
END IF;
JOINMSTR:=MASTERFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDMSTR);
JOINDTL:=DETAILFLDR||'.'||EUL4_GET_AUTOGEN_ITEM_NAME(EXPIDDTL);
JOIN:=JOINMSTR||OPERATOR||JOINDTL;
END IF;
END IF;
CLOSE GET_FORMULA;
END IF;
RETURN JOIN;
END EUL4_GET_JOIN;
/

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The problem was, there was no tool or method available in order to create the document in the best way.

So with almost 20 hrs of coding during the weekend, I whipped up some java code, using the standard queries and came up with a robust mechanism to create the document in just “One Click”.

Check this Sample Discoverer EUL and Workbook Generated Document,

It took less than 1 minute to generate the entire document into a pdf file with just “One Click”. Isn’t that easier than the
standard EUL workbooks?

The beauty of this generator is, you can add queries and create child nodes in the PDF document. You have solid formatting options. This can be run against any database containing the EUL information but before I present this to my client I would like your opinion on whether the document is presentable, does it have all the necessary information, any flaws, any suggestions?

You can email me at infocaptor”AT’gmail.com

Thank you

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We will take an example report say “AR – Invoice Aging Buckets” with developer key “AR_INV_AGING_REPORT”

Let us assume there is a seperate responsibility to view AR reports such as “Accounts Receivables Reports”. We also assume that there is a menu (top level) called “ALL_AR_REPORTS” which is attached to this responsibility using the Define Responsibility form.

Using the Discoverer User tool we share the “AR – Invoice Aging Buckets” to “Accounts Recievables Reports” responsibility.

Now we will begin creating the Function and menus for this workbook.

 

• Navigate > System Administrator > Application > Function

• Go to the Description TAB
• Enter Function Name = AR_INV_AGING_REPORT_DWB
• Enter User Function Name = AR – Invoice Aging Buckets
• Enter Description = AR – Invoice Aging Buckets

We appended a suffix of “_DWB” at the end of the function name to indicate this is a Discoverer Workbook function. You may choose any other name for your function but it is a good idea to keep the function name same as the developer key for easy identification and tracking.

• Now Go to the Properties TAB
• Select Type = SSWA plsql function that opens a new window (Kiosk Mode)
• Maintenance Mode Support = NoneContext Dependence = Responsibility

Selecting the Kiosk Mode opens the Discoverer workbook in a new window.

• Now Go to Form TAB
• Enter Parameters => “workbook=AR_INV_AGING_REPORT&viewer=Yâ€?

In the above we entered the workbook developer key and forcing the report to be opened using Discoverer Viewer. (If your ICX profile is set to use Discoverer Viewer then you may omit the part from “&” )

 

• Now Go to Web HTML TAB
• Enter HTML Call = OracleOASIS.RunDiscoverer and then Click on the Save Button

Now that we have created our Form Function we will create a new menu to hold this function and then attach this new menu to the “ALL_AR_REPORTS” menu.

Navigate > System Administrator > Application > Menus

Create a new menu “Aging reports”

Then attach the function to this menu

Now query the main menu “ALL_AR_REPORTS”

and add submenu to this main menu

Now we have finally linked all the pieces together. Wait a minute, just ensure that the user who needs to access this report is given the “Accounts Receivables Reports” responsibility. So when user “ARUSER” logs onto Self service signon, the user will see the “Accounts Receivables Reports” responsibility as part of the menu list. Clicking on this responsibility, the user will see the “Aging Reports” as one of the sub-menu and underneath there will be the link to the discoverer workbook. If “all is fine”, clicking on the report link will launch a seperate window where user can enter parameter values and execute the report.

NOTE: If the menu changes does not appear as expected then ask your DBA’s to bounce the Apache middle tier. Also, make sure all the Discoverer profile values are set properly.

Have a nice day!

 

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Sometimes it becomes cumbersome to look for a certain item in the Discoverer EUL. Most of the APPS EUL have huge folders and lots of items. Some of the items appear across multiple folders and multiple business areas. So if you are assigned to develop a report or asked to modify a Discoverer workbook to add a new column, what are the steps you would perform?

One of the obvious step is to find if all the necessary columns are available in the EUL and this can be visually done through scanning the Business Areas and Folders in Discoverer Desktop. It involves quite a bit of eye-balling and squinting, if you know what I mean

Usually I try to run some queries to expedite my process and avoid heavy eye-balling. One of the queries is as described below.

First find out which EUL you want to query against. There are multiple EUL owners so we need to determine which one. The following query shows us all the available EUL owners

select owner from all_tables where table_name = 'EUL5_OBJS';

For the current case, we are going to use the owner as ‘EUL5_US’

select i.exp_name item_name
,f.obj_name folder_name
,b.ba_name
from eul5_us.EUL5_expressions i
, eul5_us.EUL5_objs f
, eul5_us.EUL5_ba_obj_links l
, eul5_us.EUL5_bas b
where f.obj_id= i.it_obj_id
and f.obj_id= l.bol_obj_id
and b.ba_id= l.bol_ba_id
and upper(i.exp_name) like upper('%') --folder item
and upper(b.ba_name) like upper('%')                     --business area
and upper(f.obj_name) like upper('%)                     --folder
order by b.ba_name,f.obj_name,i.exp_name

In the above query replace the “eul5_us” with the appropriate owner value in your case. Now lets say we need to find out where “Invoice Date” is located then we would modify the query as shown below and execute it

As you can see above, it lists all the folders and Business areas where “Invoice Date” exists.

Similarly you can query to find particular folders using the above query.

Note : This query is part of the Discoverer Dashboard

Enjoy!

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If you have just one installation of Discoverer EUL then the above combination (even though tedious) is quite sufficient.
But most of the implementations that I have seen have more than one EUL stored in the database with different owners(database user).
If you had to monitor all of these EULs then you would have to log-off and log-in to check individual EULs.

What if your IT manager needs a complete picture of everything related to Discoverer?
How many Business Areas?
How many workbooks?

There is an easier solution to all the pain and we will discuss that below.

Introducing Discoverer Monitoring Dashboard

This pre-built dashboard has the following portlets. This is a plug-n-play dashboard and connects to any
oracle database. It detects Discoverer Meta-data stored on your Oracle database.
It detects all the EULs your database stores and provides single point information to all the needed information.

So the question is how does it detect all the EULs in the database?

When you launch this dashboard, there is a parameter at the top named ‘EUL Owner’ and this parameter executes the
following query against the database

”
Select distinct owner
from all_tables
where table_name like ‘EUL%’
”

This provides all the available list of owners.

By simply switching between any of the EUL owner you get centralized monitoring of all the EULs stored in the
database.

Following is the list of portlets that display some vital information

# Business Area metrics by EUL, number of BAs, modified folders and items, Total reports etc.
# Drill into Folders from Business Area
# Drill into Items from a particular Folder
# Drill into Folder Joins
# List of defined workbooks
# Average run-time for workbooks
# Actual run-time for workbooks
# Discoverer Meta-data browser

How to use this Dashboard?
The dashboard is very intuitive and easy to modify and enhance. Lets say you are looking for a particular item e.g.
“Invoice Date” and you don’t know which Business Area and which Folder contains this item. The easiest trick is to
click on the “Folder Items” portlet, right click and select ‘Refresh’ action from the menu. This refresh action will
popup a window that will show the available filters for this portlet.

You can easily drill from Business Areas to a list of Folders and from folders to list of folder items and joins. You can
also monitor the performance of reports using the Average run-time and Actual run-time for workbooks.

This dashboard can be modified to incorporate the following needs

• Who created Report, Who Shared it and to Whom?
• Reports not run in past ‘X’ Days
• Most Popular Reports
• Slowest performing Reports
• Which user has “Ability to grant access to workbooks to other usersâ€? ?
• Which user has Administration Privileges? (SOX violations?)

I will try to add the above metrics and portlets to the existing dashboard to make it more useful but
before that I would like to know your opinion if this is useful in anyway. Please email me(infocaptor”AT”gmail.com) if you think there is more that can be added or subtracted from this dashboard

How to install and use this dashboard

First install “InfoCaptor Professional Designer” from this page Download Dashboard Designer and Viewer
and then select the “Discoverer Intelligence” option from the drop down list on the same download page.

Lauch InfoCaptor and open the “disco_intelligence.icv” file, provide the necessary connection details and you are ready to browse through the dashboard

Let me know if any trouble installing or using this dashboard

Behind the scenes…
Here are the queries that run behind each portlet in this dashboard
BA Metrics
select ‘Business Areas’ Metric,count(*) “Total”
from EUL5_bas
union all
select ‘Workbooks’ , count(*)
from EUL5_documents a
union all
select ‘Modified Folder Items this Week’ , count(*)
from EUL5_expressions i
, EUL5_objs f
, EUL5_ba_obj_links l
, EUL5_bas b
where f.obj_id= i.it_obj_id
and f.obj_id= l.bol_obj_id
and b.ba_id= l.bol_ba_id
and i.exp_updated_date between trunc(next_day(sysdate-7,’SUNDAY’)) and sysdate
union all
select ‘Modified Folders this Week’ , count(*)
from
EUL5_objs f
, EUL5_ba_obj_links l
, EUL5_bas b
where 1=1
and f.obj_id= l.bol_obj_id
and b.ba_id= l.bol_ba_id
and f.obj_updated_date between trunc(next_day(sysdate-7,’SUNDAY’)) and sysdate
union all
select ‘Reports Run’, count(*)
from EUL5_qpp_stats

—————
Business Areas

select ba_name “Business Area”
,ba_created_by “Creator”
,ba_created_date “Creation Date”
,ba_updated_by “Updated By ”
,ba_updated_date “Last Update Date”
,ba_id
from SYSTEM.EUL5_bas

——————
Folders
select b.ba_name,f.obj_name folder_name,f.obj_id,f.obj_ext_owner Owner
from
SYSTEM.EUL5_objs f
, SYSTEM.EUL5_ba_obj_links l
, SYSTEM.EUL5_bas b
where 1=1
and f.obj_id= l.bol_obj_id
and b.ba_id= l.bol_ba_id
and upper(b.ba_name) like upper(’Video Store Tutorial’)
and upper(f.obj_name) like upper(’%')
order by b.ba_name,f.obj_name

—————-
Folder Items

select i.exp_name item_name,i.exp_id,i.it_ext_column
,f.obj_name folder_name
,b.ba_name, i.*
from SYSTEM.EUL5_expressions i
, SYSTEM.EUL5_objs f
, SYSTEM.EUL5_ba_obj_links l
, SYSTEM.EUL5_bas b
where f.obj_id= i.it_obj_id
–and f.obj_name like
and f.obj_id= l.bol_obj_id
and b.ba_id= l.bol_ba_id
and upper(i.exp_name) like upper(’%')
and upper(b.ba_name) like upper(’Video Store Tutorial’)
and upper(f.obj_name) like upper(’Products’)
order by b.ba_name,f.obj_name,i.exp_name

—————————

Folder Joins

select key_description
from SYSTEM.EUL5_key_cons

———————————-

Average Run Time

select replace(qs_doc_name,’LINKSYS’,”) ||’ (’||
qs_doc_details||’)’ “Workbook (Worksheet)”,
round(avg(qs_act_cpu_time)/60,2) cpu_time,
round(avg(qs_act_elap_time)/60,2) total_time
from SYSTEM.EUL5_qpp_stats
where upper(qs_doc_name) like upper(’%')

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How are organizations secured in BIS?
and
What organization security do I need to set up for BIS?

The list of organizations a user may access is restricted by his/her
responsibilities. Below is a high level specification of the security mechanism
followed by each type of organization.

Business Groups – Secured by profile option HR: Business Group.

HR Organizations – Secured by the business group.

Sets of Books – Secured by profile option GL Set of Books ID.

Legal Entities – Secured by the business group.

Operating Units – Secured by profile option MO: Operating Unit.

Inventory Organizations – Secured through Organization Access form.

Sales Groups – Secured by user’s employment status and job.

Process Manufacturing Companies – Secured at user level.

Process Manufacturing Organizations – Secured at user level.

Process Manufacturing Warehouses – Secured at user level.

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