OBIEE URL's Explained

OBIEE Dashboards obviously provide a graphical interface to navigate data and offer drill down through tables and charts and action links to direct the user to another dashboard or application or website.

Sometimes you need to use the dashboard URL to guide the user to another dashboard page, and once you understand the construction it's quite simple to use in your answers or action links.

External URL

http://[server name]:[port]/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard

Default port is 9704, however your administrator may have set an alternative.

From the Web Server

/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard

From the Presentation Services

saw.dll?Dashboard

Very simple so far, but this only gets us to the home page, lets look at navigating to a specific Dashboard Page.  Navigating to a page uses parameters in the URL where parameters are prefixed with an &.

Portal Path - Catalogue path to the dashboard

&PortalPath=dashboard_path

Page - Name of the Dashboard Page

&Page=page_name

Note: Any spaces in the dashboard name should be replaced with a %20, for example "My Page" become "My%20Page".

You may want to set the filters or prompts on the target page, you add more parameters to enable this.

Filters

&Action=Navigate

&P0=n - Where n is the number of filters to be applied.

&P1=operator - Where operator is eq, lt etc. see the list below.

&P2=column name - The column to be filtered

&P3=filter value - The filter value for the column in P2