New Oracle BI Mobile App Designer quiz

A new free online quiz is available for testing your knowledge of Oracle's BI Mobile App Designer tool.  Go here:   OBIEE 11g Mobile App Designer Quiz  to take the quiz.    You can create an account with the test hosting site (Quizegg) but no personal information is collected.

OBIEE Admin Tool Utility to upgrade Presentation Foldering from "->" to new nesting format

From the Oracle BI Administration Tool documentation:

In this release, you can designate child presentation tables using the Child Presentation Tables tab in the Presentation Table dialog to give the appearance of nested folders in Answers and BI Composer. However, in previous releases, repository developers could achieve one level of nesting in Answers by adding a hyphen at the beginning of a presentation table name, or by adding an arrow (->) at the beginning of a presentation table description. If you used these methods to achieve nesting, it is recommended that you run the Upgrade Presentation Foldering utility to convert your metadata to the new structure.

Note: Achieving nesting by adding hyphens at the beginning of presentation table names or adding arrows at the beginning of presentation table descriptions is deprecated for this release and will be removed in a future release.

To use the Upgrade Presentation Foldering utility:

1. Open your repository in the Administration Tool in offline mode.
   Note: Do not run the Upgrade Presentation Foldering utility in online mode.
   
2. Select Tools, then select Utilities.
   
3. Select Upgrade Presentation Foldering and click Execute.
   The hyphens and arrows disappear from presentation table names and descriptions, and the affected tables are listed as child tables for the appropriate parent object.

New OBIEE Sample App available

A new version of the OBIEE 11g Sample Application is available.  This new release includes OBIEE version 11.1.1.1.7.1 which has the latest mobile application development capability.   Note - it's a 23 GB download for the VM zip files and requires approximately 60Gb once expanded.

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