Cross-Pod Report Links
In one of the comments (on LinkedIn) for the previous post on Surfacing Reports to End-Users Sricharan Monigari asked:
Good idea.. But with every refresh we will have to redirect the hyperlinks to the right instance else they keep referring to the other instance from where it is being refreshed.. Do you have any solution for it?
Sricharan was cleverly thinking ahead to when the instance containing the dashboard of report links is refreshed over another pod. The report links would still point to the previous pod – which would be confusing at the very least.
Dashboard links to analytics are relative – by which I mean the link does not contain the server or domain info, just the path within the catalogue – and therefore need no changes after a pod refresh:
Dashboard links to BI Publisher reports are different. When you copy the link to the report to embed in the dashboard it is an absolute link, i.e. it includes the fully qualified domain name in addition to the report path. This is what Sricharan had thought about. Thankfully there’s a very easy solution.
The link to embed a BIP in a dashboard might look like this:
https//<server>.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/xmlpserver/Custom/<folder>/<report>.xdo?<parameters>
To make the links portable across pod refreshes, simply replace the FQDN part of the URL and make it relative, as follows:
../../xmlpserver/Custom/<folder>/<report>.xdo?<parameters>
Then your dashboard will work both before and after refreshes.
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