Where Can I Get Help or More Information?

Oracle BI EE provides direct access to guides, context-sensitive help, and libraries that contain conceptual and procedural information to help you understand Oracle BI EE.

Specifically, you can access:

• Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Help — Each Oracle BI EE user interface page, tab, editor, pane, and dialog has a help topic associated with it. Each of these topics contains overview information, links to related concept and procedures, and an explanation of each component.

  To access the online help for a page, editor, tab, or dialog, click its Help button.

  Alternatively, for a page, editor, or tab, you can select the xxx Help option (where xxx is the name of the page, editor, or tab) from the Help menu that is located in the global header. For example, for help on the Catalog page, select the Catalog Page Help option. For more information about the global header, see "What Is the Oracle BI EE Global Header?"

• Help Tables of Contents for Oracle BI EE, Oracle BI Publisher, and Marketing — Navigating through these Table of Contents is a good way to get acquainted with the products and access a particular topic of interest.

  To access one of these tables of contents, click the Help Contents option on the Help menu in the global header and then select the appropriate table of contents.

  Alternatively, you can click the Help Contents link in the Get Started section on the Home page and then select the appropriate table of contents. For information about the Home page, see "What Is the Oracle BI EE Home Page?"

• Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Documentation Library — The books in the Oracle BI EE documentation set are included in the Fusion Middleware Documentation Library on the Oracle Technology Network.

  To access the Oracle BI EE documentation library, click the Documentation option on the Help menu in the global header.

  Alternatively, you can click the Oracle BI EE Documentation link in the Get Started section on the Home page.

  You can also access the Oracle BI EE documentation library at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/bi.htm.

• Oracle Technology Network (OTN) — On OTN, you can find information that is specific to Oracle Business Intelligence and information about all other Oracle products. OTN provides services and resources to help developers, DBAs, and architects share and find expertise and best practices about how to design, build, deploy, manage, and optimize applications. Examples of the types of items that you find on OTN include information about industry-standard technologies such as JAVA and Linux, all Oracle product documentation, discussion forums, Oracle software, blogs and podcasts, and technical articles that are written by other OTN members.

  To access OTN, click the OTN option on the Help menu in the global header.

  Alternatively, you can click the Oracle Technology Network link in the Get Started section on the Home page.

  You can also access OTN at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/bi/whatsnew/index.html.

• Interactive Overview of Oracle BI EE — To access the interactive overview of Oracle BI EE, click the Introduction to Oracle BI link in the Get Started section on the Home page.