Friday, September 13, 2013

Briefing Book



·         A briefing book is a collection of static or updatable snapshots of dashboard pages, individual analyses, and BI Publisher reports.
·         Add the content of dashboard pages (including pages that contain BI Publisher reports) or individual analyses to new or existing briefing books.
·         Download briefing books in PDF or MHTML format for printing and viewing. The PDF version of a briefing book contains an automatically generated table of contents.
·         Update, schedule, and deliver briefing books using agents, if your organization licensed Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers.

Content Type
·         Updatable — Refreshes the data whenever the briefing book is downloaded, or when it is specified as the delivery content for an agent.

·         Snapshot — Adds the content in its current state. Snapshot content preserves the original data and is not updated when the briefing book is rerun. Snapshot content is not updated when using agents.

Note: 
If you have ever used the Briefing Books feature in OBIEE 10g you might remember the necessity to install the OBI Briefing Book Reader software in order to open the .sbb (Siebel Briefing Book) files.

In OBIEE 11g, there is no briefing book reader and no .sbb output anymore.

Instead we can now download briefing books as PDF (as in 10g) or MHTML.

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