My Account dialog: Preferences tab

Use this tab of the "My Account dialog" to specify your account's display preferences.

For more information, see:

Components

Starting Page

Use this box to select the dashboard to display when you sign in to Oracle BI Enterprise Edition. Note the following options:

Default — Select this option to set your company's default dashboard, as specified by the administrator, as your default dashboard. In some cases, the administrator might require you to use only the company's default dashboard as the dashboard that displays when you sign into Oracle BI EE.
Home Page — Select this option to set the Home page as your default dashboard. You might select this option if creating objects or maintaining the catalog is your primary job responsibility.
My Dashboard — Select this option to set your My Dashboard that you have created and saved as your default dashboard.
Saved Dashboards — This list contains the names of all of the dashboards that have been created and saved to the catalog's dashboards subfolders (for example, Shared Folders then Marketing subfolder then Dashboards subfolder). You can set any of the dashboards that are displayed in this list as your default dashboard.

Locale (location)

Use this box to select a locale. The locale usually corresponds to the language that you specify in the User Interface Language field or the country from where you are working. For example, your specified language is English and your locale can be English - United States or English - Canada.

The locale that you select determines the date and time formats, daylight saving time settings, and currency formats settings.

User Interface Language

Use this box to select the language in which you want the Oracle BI EE interface to display. The language that you specify here persists, unless, for example, it is overridden for the session by the language that you specify in the "Sign In page." If your language is overridden, then the cause of the override displays in a second box within this field.

Time Zone

Use this box to select the time zone to apply when viewing content. This option is useful if you do not reside in the same physical location as the default time zone that was set by the administrator, and you want to select another time zone. For example, suppose that the Oracle BI Server that sends you alerts resides in the US Pacific time zone, but your work location is in the US Central time zone. After you set the Central time zone as your preferred time zone setting, the delivered time on your alerts is displayed in Central time.

Your account's time zone automatically applies to any items that you create, modify, run, receive, and print. The date and time columns included in analyses are displayed according to the content designer. The content designer can force a specific time zone to be displayed in the column or can allow your default time zone to be displayed in the column. A clock button is displayed in the column heading, and when you hover over this button, the name of the time zone used in the column is displayed.

For more information on how the administrator sets the Oracle BI Server time zone, see Metadata Repository Builder's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Currency

This box is available only if the administrator has configured the userpref_currencies.xml file. For information, see "Configuring Currency Options" in System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Use this box to select the currency in which to view currency columns in dashboards and analyses.

This selection:

Takes effect in your current session.
Is saved to the catalog and remains in effect for all sessions until you again modify and save it.
Applies to all currency columns that have been converted by the Oracle BI Server and for which the currency data format has been set (by the content designer) to use the user's preferred currency.

The administrator defines the currency options that are available in this box.

Prompts Auto-Complete

Use this field to enable or disable the auto-complete functionality for your account.

If you select:

Default, then the default setting specified by your system administrator is used.
On, then auto- complete functionality is enabled. When enabled, Oracle BI EE suggests and highlights matching prompt values as you type in the dashboard's prompt selection field and highlights matching prompts values in the search dialog. See "What Is Auto-Complete?"
Off, then auto-complete functionality is disabled for all dashboards that you access and when you search for prompt values in the "Select Values dialog."

Subject Area Sort

Use this option to specify the sort order of the subject areas and subject area folders within the Subject Areas pane.

If you select:

Sort A to Z, the subject areas and corresponding subject area folders and columns within the subject area folders are sorted in ascending order.
Sort Z to A, the subject areas and corresponding subject area folders and columns within the subject area folders are sorted in descending order.
Sort in Saved Order, the subject areas sort order specified in an analysis is saved as the default and subsequently used as the default sort order.
Default - Sort in Saved Order, the subject areas sort order for an analysis, by default, is originally defined in the repository.

Analysis Editor

Use this option to specify which editor you want to use when you work with analyses:

Full Editor — (Available only if you have been granted the Access to Analysis privilege by the administrator.) This option specifies to use the "Analysis editor" as the editor when you work with analyses.

The Analysis editor is a more complex editor that allows you to explore and interact with information by visually presenting data in tables, graphs, pivot tables, and so on. For more information, see "What Is the Analysis Editor?"

If you select this option, then also specify whether the Analysis editor is to open by default to the Criteria tab or the Results tab by selecting either:
- Default - Start on Results tab when editing Analysis (or Default - Start on Criteria tab when editing Analysis, depending on the default setting specified by your system administrator)
- Start on Criteria tab when editing Analysis
- Start on Results tab when editing Analysis
This preference is applied when you click an analysis' Edit link from a dashboard, the Home Page, or the Catalog page.
Wizard (limited functionality) — (Available only if you have been granted the Access to BI Composer privilege by the administrator.) This option specifies to use the "BI Composer wizard" as the editor when you work with analyses.

The BI Composer wizard is a simple-to-use wizard that allows you to quickly and easily create, edit, or view analyses without the complexities of the Analysis editor. For more information, see "Using BI Composer to Work with Analyses."

Accessibility Mode

Use this option to select whether content for Oracle BI EE is rendered in a browser in a way that facilitates the use of a screen reader.

If you select:

Default, then the default setting specified by your system administrator is used.
On, then the BI Composer wizard in accessibility mode will be used as the analysis editor, regardless of the setting of the Analysis Editor component.
Off, and the setting of the Analysis Editor component is Wizard (limited functionality), then the BI Composer wizard in regular mode will be used as the analysis editor.

The setting that you specify here persists, unless, for example, it is overridden for the session by the accessibility mode setting that you specify in the "Sign In page." If the accessibility mode setting is overridden, then the cause of the override displays in a second box within this field

For information, see Appendix C, "Accessibility Features."

Notes

For information on setting the default values for these options, see the System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.