Calling Javascript function from OBIEE dashboard

Hello again

This time I am going to show how to call javascript function from OBIEE dashboard. The script can be written and saved in the common.js file located in:

OBIEE_Folder/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/servers/bi_server1/tmp/_WL_user/analytics_11.1.1/7dezjl/war/res/b_mozilla/common.js

I have written a simple script as the follow and I saved it in the bottom of the common.js file:

// MY Stuff
function obi_popup()
{
alert("Hello World")
}

So as you can see, the function name is called 'obi_popup' and the function itself is supposed to return a text 'Hello World' when called.

Once this is done, restart the OBIEE opmn service.

Go to the dashboard and add a text section. In there add the following text:



check "contain HTML markup" box

This will appear a button labelled 'hi there!', and by clicking on it, the javascript 'obi_popup' should be called

Click and the result:

Thanks,

until next time