The Home page provides a starting point for tasks in Oracle BI EE, with sections for recent and favorite objects. The global header is always available and provides quick access to functions like searching, administration, help, and account preferences without leaving the current page. Users can act as another user if authorized by the administrator, allowing full or restricted access to the other user's content and preferences.

1. What Is the Oracle BI EE Home Page?
The Home page provides a starting point for performing tasks in Oracle BI EE.
The Home page is divided into sections that allow you to begin a specific task or locate
an object. It also includes sections (for example, Recent and Favorites) that allow you
to access objects that you have recently viewed, created, or updated, and objects that
are accessed the most often by the users assigned to the groups to which you belong.
The illustration shows an example of a Home page.
Depending on what has been configured as your starting page, you might be
presented with the Home page when you sign in to Oracle BI EE.
Otherwise, you can always navigate to the Home page by clicking the Home page link
in the global header.
What Is the Oracle BI EE Global Header?
The global header provides quick access to commonly used functions and is always
available from the user interface.
For example, you can use the global header to begin a new task, search the Oracle BI
Presentation Catalog, access the product documentation, or view a different object,
without having to return to the Home page. The global header also includes the Home
page link so that you can access the Home page from other pages. Note that the
functionality available on the global header is determined by privileges.
Your administrator can customize the global header by changing the order in which
the links display or by adding links to internal or external locations such as Google or
OTN. For more information, see Providing Custom Links in Presentation Services in

2. System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
The illustration shows the leftmost portion of the global header.
The global header includes the following components:
 Search — Enables you to search the catalog. For information on how to use this
area,
 Advanced — Displays the Catalog page in search mode, where you can search for
objects in the catalog. In search mode, the Search pane is displayed rather than the
Folders pane within the page.
 Administration — Available if you are logged in as an administrator. Displays the
Administration page, where you perform administration tasks such as managing
privileges and metadata for maps.
 Help Contents — Displays a cascading menu with options that link to the tables
of contents for Oracle BI EE, BI Publisher, and Marketing.
 Sign Out — Signs you out of Oracle BI EE.
 Alerts — Available only if one or more alerts have been generated for you.
Displays the Alerts dialog, where you can manage your alerts. An alert is a
notification that is generated by an agent that delivers personalized and actionable
content to specified recipients and to subscribers to the agent.
 Home — Displays the Home page. For information about the Home page
 Catalog — Displays the Catalog page, where you can locate objects in the catalog
and perform tasks specific to those objects.
 Favorites — Displays your favorite objects and any categories that you created to
organize your favorite objects. Also displays the Manage Favorites link that you
can click to access the Manage Favorites dialog, where you can create and manage
categories to organize your favorites. For more information about favourites
 Dashboards — Contains links to all dashboards that are stored within the
Dashboards sub-folder of the user's folder or any shared folder. Note that
dashboards not saved to the Dashboards sub-folders are not displayed from the
global header's Dashboards list).
 New — Displays a list of the objects that you can create. To create an object, select it
from the list. The appropriate dialog or editor is displayed for you to create the
object.

3.  Open — Displays the following options:
– Open — Displays the Open dialog, where you can select the object with which
you want to work.
– Recent objects — Displays a list of the objects that you have recently viewed,
created, or updated. You can use this list to select an object with which you
want to work.
– Most Popular objects — Displays a list of the objects that are accessed the most
often by the users that are assigned to the groups to which you belong. You can
use this list to select an object with which you want to work.
 Signed In As username — (where username is the user name that your current
session is using) Displays the following options:
– My Account — Displays the My Account dialog, where you can specify your
preferences, such as time zone, delivery devices, and delivery profile
– Act As — Available only if your organization has enabled this functionality and
you have been granted the appropriate permissions. Enables you to act as
another user.
About Acting for Other Users
Acting as another user allows non-administrators to perform other users’ functions.
The Act As functionality enables you to act for another user in Oracle BI EE. This
functionality is useful, for example, when you must work on another user's dashboard
or content, or when IT support staff wants to troubleshoot another user's account.
To use the Act As functionality, the administrator must enable you to act for another
user. For information,
When the administrator authorizes you to act for another user, the administrator can
grant you full access or restricted access to another user's account:
• Full access — When you are granted full access, you inherit the target user's
privileges and can change the user's default dashboard and modify the user's
content and preferences.
• Restricted access — When you are granted restricted access, you maintain your
user privileges, but inherit the target user's permission for viewing data. Restricted
access enables you only to view the user's data.
You can view a list of the users with access to your account by opening the My
Account Dialog: Delegated Users tab. This tab displays a list of the names of the users
that have been given access to your account.

4. Acting for Other Users
You can act for another user, if you have been authorized to do so.
To act as another user:
 In the global header, click Signed In As username, then select Act As.
The Act As dialog displays.
 Select a user's ID from the list or enter the ID in the box (if available), and click OK.
The user's default dashboard is displayed. From this dashboard you can view or
modify content, depending upon the access type (full or restricted) that you were
granted by the administrator.
 To return to your account, display the Act As dialog, click Stop, then click OK.
Setting Preferences
You and end users can set personal preferences for Oracle BI EE.
Using the My Account dialog, and depending on your privileges, you can:
 View general account information, such as your display name and user ID.
 View and modify your preferences, such as language, time zone, and currency.
 View and modify your preferences for BI Publisher, such as location and time zone.
 View and modify your preferences for Oracle BI Mobile.
 View and modify your delivery options for agents. For information about delivery
Options.
 View the roles and groups to which you belong.
To set preferences:
1. In the global header, click Signed In As username and select My Account.
The My Account dialog is displayed.
2. Complete the appropriate settings.
3. Click OK to save your changes