If you are a PBCS user, you should have gotten or will be getting an e-mail from Kash with the March release of PBCS. The headline to this release is the new Financial Reporting Web Studio. I’ll have a full post once the patch hits my PBCS test instance (very soon). In the meantime, have a look at the docs:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/fr-webstudio-2874377.pdf
While we were all expecting the new web-based FR studio, I didn’t realize they were overhauling the charting engine. It’s about time! Here’s another doc on that:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/fr-charting-2874649.pdf
One thing that I was hoping for but see no mention of…Attribute Dimensions. I’m guessing we are waiting for a significant Smart View update for this to become a reality. So we’ll continue waiting. And just in case you haven’t gotten the e-mail yet or are just curious, here’s the actual release documentation from Oracle:
We were applied that patch and it caused issues in our environment. The patch made some of the menus disappear on PBCS.