Not able to change Presentation Table names

Welcome to OBIEE 12c.. With the default BI Admin Tool configuration, you cannot change any object's name from presentation layer..

If you try to change the Table Name from a presentation layer, you would see Name field is not editable at all as in below screenshot.

To enable this, Go to Tools > Options
Select check-box for "Edit Presentation Names"

You can now see the option for Name is enabled to edit into it..

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Start - Stop OBIEE Services - 12c

Welcome to OBIEE 12c.. :)

As we already know, a lot of OBIEE developers life became an easy from the time we are experiencing OBIEE 12c or onwords version of the same.. The basic and day to day life tasks for OBIEE Admin / Developers is to upload a repository or restart of servers. This was really a time consuming tasks with 11g version of OBIEE. Here with 12c, we can just run a single command to upload a new repository and everything else will be taken care by this utiliy.. This is a link to the detailed article to upload a new rpd. Upload Repository Commands - downloadrpd & uploadrpd

Same is with the restart of services. There is no need to Google "Restart sequence of OBIEE 11g services". Oracle has provided a simple and single command line utility to start or stop all the OBIEE stack, this includes Admin Server + BI Servers + BI Components. This utility is available for both the OS types i.e Unix and Windows too.. Below is the step (yeah, singular.!!) to stop the services,

Go to the mentioned location and run stop.cmd

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\domains\bi\bitools\bin

To start the services, Run start.cmd

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