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Weekly scheduled report in Omniture Discover

Henrik Schack — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:48:55 +0000

In Denmark we pay with Danish kroner, our thousands separator is a period, and our weeks start on mondays.

In Omniture SiteCatalyst the weeks work as supposed to and start on mondays.

In Omniture Data Warehouse a week does also start on a monday.

But inside Omniture Discover a week, for some reason, has to start on a sunday, making it impossible to schedule a (correct) weekly delivery of a report.

If you have an idea on how to overcome this one, please let me know !

Update: While Omniture Data Warehouse is capable of generating a one-shot weekly report (Monday-Sunday) it appears to ignore the reportsuite calendar setting when in comes to scheduled weekly reports, in this case Omniture Data Warehouse works pretty much like Omniture Discover

Omniture Discover on Ubuntu Linux

Henrik Schack — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:48:26 +0000

Let me save you some time: It doesn’t work!
Although the discover.jnlp (Java Web Start) file does indicate that Discover should be able to run on several Linux variants, well Ubuntu Linux isn’t one of these.
The problem lies in the desktop manager, Omniture Discover is, as of now, not compatible with the Gnome desktop manager.

Workarounds:

Switch to Kubuntu or some other NON-Gnome based Linux distro
Make your Ubuntu installation capable of running with the KDE desktop manager (sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop)

Discover encoding difficulties

Henrik Schack — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:41:52 +0000

I’ve been spending some time with Omniture Discover lately. What a truly amazing product Discover is, I’m almost speechless.
Unfortunately it does have a few rough edges here and there, character encoding difficulties being an example.

This is what the Danish characters æ ø and å looks like inside Discover: (perfect)

This is the same data after being exported in Excel format by Omniture Discover: (not pretty)