Unannounced Oracle OBIEE 11.1.1.7.10?

There is documentation on the Oracle website for version 11.1.1.7.10 that does not appear to have been announced yet.    

Some interesting new features are mentioned in the documentation:

• A new style named Skyros
  
• Ability to delay the execution of dashboard pages.  This will force users to select values from a prompt before executing the reports on the dashboard.
  
• Ability to set and send multiple values in a dashboard prompt for request variables when the request variable is a string or numeric data type.
   
•  A new view type named treemap. Treemap is a space-constrained, two-dimensional visualization for displaying hierarchical structures with multiple levels. The treemap is limited by a predefined, rectangular area and displays two levels of data. The size of each tile (or rectangle) is based on a measure, and the color of the tile is based on the second measure.
  
• Ability to add global variables. A global variable is a column created by combining a specific data type with a value.
    
• Using options on the Administration page, you can set the logging levels for Oracle BI Presentation Services. 

Click here to view the 11.1.1.7.10 documentation

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.