Comments on: Modeling Microsoft Excel source in OBIEE 11g

By: NP

NP — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:56:28 +0000

I have the same setup. But how do you give access to the user to update this excel file. For example, I have weekly scheduled BIP Report which uses Excel Datasource. I have to manually update the data in a column every week and upload it in the datamodel and run the report. Is that possible we just update the excel file and the report generated should include the new updated information without uploading it in the datasource automatically?

Thanks
NP

By: jagdevbhogal

jagdevbhogal — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:08:23 +0000

In reply to Sajid Khan.

Hi Sajid,
Even when I leave the username and password blank and just press next it comes up with connection failed error. I launch BI Administrator, create a new repository, then try to select the datasource. When selecting the excel datasource I can browse to the directory that the other repositories are on and select it so I am assuming the BI server has access to the excel file – is there any other setting I need to look at to ensure the BI server has access to the excel file?
Thank you for your help

By: Sajid Khan

Sajid Khan — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:47:32 +0000

In reply to jagdevbhogaljagdev. If you are asking about the username/password in the connection pool properties, then just leave it blank. Also, please make sure that the BI server has access to the excel file.

By: jagdevbhogaljagdev

jagdevbhogaljagdev — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:38:32 +0000

hi for step 6, after the excel data source has been selected, it asks for username and password. Not sure what I should be entering for this. I have tried my obiee username and password but it says connection failed. Please advise