EBS Session Management

Posted Posted by vaishali_iware in Blog   Sep,24    Comments No comments

EBS Session Management

This article talks about EBS session management and in particular, how user logins and sessions are managed using database tables APPLSYS.FND_LOGINS and ICX.ICX_SESSIONS.  Specifics in this article apply to EBS R12.1.1.

Let us see what happens when a user, say OPERATIONS, brings up EBS login page, in a browser, say IE8, for the first time.

1. EBS server generates a new session, which is not yet stored in the database, and

encrypted version of the session id is passed back to the browser in a cookie with key-name JSESSIONID. HTTP response header looks something like,

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Typing special French and German characters with standard US keyboard

Posted Posted by vaishali_iware in Blog   Sep,24    Comments No comments

Typing special French and German characters with standard US keyboard.

A word about special characters.

1.German has two kinds of special characters, Umlauts and Eszett. Umlaut stands for um+Laut which means change+sound and so with umlaut, vowel pronunciation changes. Only the vowels a, e and o take the form ä,ë and ö whereas eszett character, also called as sharp s looks like ß.

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Integrating Oracle OBIEE Content using GO URL

Posted Posted by vaishali_iware in Blog   Sep,16    Comments No comments

Integrating Oracle OBIEE Content using GO URL

This blog discuss various techniques to integrate Oracle OBIEE content into external web content using GO URL. Also we can customize the OBIEE functionality (Navigation) using GO URL.

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