1. Introduction

This post explains a very weird and tricky way to embed an OBIEE dashboard (a set of pages) inside a dashboard page.
The objective is to give the illusion of having multiple nested tabs.
Bare in mind that this is not really a solution cause OBIEE does not support natively this functionality.
I decided to write this article cause I have been asked to find a possible workorund in order to simulate a nested tabs view.

2. The Idea

The idea is to define N dashboard, where N is the depth level referred to the nesting tabs level.
A dashboard is a set of pages displayed as tabs; once we have created the first dashboard, we will embed a new one inside one page, by using an IFRAME.
Later we will make some customization in order to adjust the layout.
As you have probably understood, this kind of solution cannot be easily manteined, especially if we increase the tab depth level. Read the rest of this entry »