Overview
This tutorial shows you how to build and use actions to provide guided navigation, link to external web content, and invoke web services. You learn how to guide user navigation in dashboards and analyses using actions and action links, to access external web content in the context of your BI analysis, to use conditions and agents with actions to automate initiation of business processes, and to invoke a Web Service using actions and action links.
In this tutorial, you focus on a subset of the available types of actions you can use to drive functionality and navigation within your Oracle BI analyses and dashboards.
Enabling BI Navigation
In this topic you add an inline action link to a column in an analysis which navigates to another analysis in Oracle BI. Because the action link is set as a property of the column itself, the action is available from Table, Pivot Table, Graph, and Map views. After testing the inline action link and saving the analysis, you save the action link as a named action link in the Presentation Catalog.
To automate BI navigation and create a named action link, you perform the following steps:
- Log in to Oracle BI EE and create an analysis
- Add an action link to the analysis
- Test the action link
- Save the action in the Presentation Catalog
