Panorama Business Intelligence

Administrating Panorama NovaView is a great responsibility. The NovaView Administrator (NVA) must carefully read the documentation which was shipped with the product (You’ll find it in C:\Program Files\Panorama\E-BI\Documentation). Nevertheless, the NVA must also read the Panorama Knowledge Base once in a while and he has the responsibility to install the Hot Fixes and Planned Fixes when they published in the support site.

Considering the fact that the NVA may have difficulties with all this responsibility, here are some tips for the beginner NVA:

• In the Panorama Web Access web site, by default a user can save his views (after he made his modifications) only in his private book. To enable him to save his views in the Briefing Book (which means – the public book), do the following: Inside the Panorama server, open the Registry Editor (Start -> Run -> regedit) and go to the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Panorama\Nova View 5\Admin. Add a new string value named “PublicBookAdmin”. As its value, enter all the users you want to give them the option to save their views in the Briefing Book by this template: \,\, etc. For example: panoramaDevServer\PowerUser, MSHOME\Miky.
• The subscriptions web part will show you only the views that you registered to, but by default no one can register himself to the views. What you need to do is to open the Registry Editor in the panorama server, go to the same path as mentioned above and add a string value named “ShowSubsAndAlerts” with the value 1. After that, every user will be able to right click on any view in the Panorama Web Access web site, click on Register and it will be added to the subscriptions web part for him.
• For some users, the loading animations which are shown before every applet appears in the Dashboard website will stay forever, meaning that the user will never see the dashboard itself. This will happen when the user uses JVM in his machine. A nice workaround is to cancel this animation. To do this, enter the path C:\Program Files\Panorama\E-BI\Dashboard\include (replace the beginning if you installed to panorama software in a different location) and inside the Config.asp file, change the constant “ShowAnimationWhileLoadingApplets” value to false. This is a good workaroung because anyway, the applets should appear in a second or two. Otherwise – buy a faster server.

Stay Tuned for more tips & tricks.