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Informational: Enabling deprecated "Act As" Feature in OAS 2025

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Chad Williams
Chad Williams Rank 5 - Community Champion
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This is something that I came across which I wanted to share in case anyone else is doing a fresh install of 2025 and is still asked to support deprecated features.

For enabling the "Act As" function in the Classic side of OAS, I noticed in this version that a directory was missing:

$DOMAIN_HOME/bidata/components/OBIPS

This is the directory where one creates the "custommessages" directory to hold the LogonParamSQLTemplate.xml file used to add this feature.

You can simply add the OBIPS directory yourself to enable this feature. On Linux:

cd $DOMAIN_HOME/bidata/components/

mkdir ./OBIPS/custommessages -p

cd OBIPS/custommessages

vi LogonParamSQLTemplate.xml

Then follow the instructions as normal.

Regards,

Chad

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  • SteveF-Oracle
    SteveF-Oracle Mod

    Hi Chad,


    To add:

    The knowledge base has document for enabling this feature

    How To Enable Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) Deprecated Features That Are Disabled By Default (Doc ID 2622528.1)

    The steps to create the custom messages directory is here:

    Apply Custom Logos and Dashboard Styles

    and template here:

    Act-As Fails With Error: This Functionality Has Not Been Enabled By Your Service Administrator. (Doc ID 2883364.1)

    Thanks for sharing your helpful tip, to summarize and consolidate.

    As a reminder, the feature might be desupported in a future update.

  • Gianni Ceresa
    Gianni Ceresa Mod

    As a reminder, the feature might be desupported in a future update.

    I hope Oracle is close to finding a replacement solution, it's now 5 years and counting… (just dropping it without a replacement will be hard to sell to a number of customers, and OAC not having it is one of the reasons I heard for staying on OAS).

  • SteveF-Oracle
    SteveF-Oracle Mod

    Generally, a replacement is made available before complete desupport.

    One of the Support folks consolidated the information for future readers.

    How To Configure 'Act As' In Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) (Doc ID 3083276.1)