PORTALPATH Variable – OBIEE 10g

It identifies the default dashboard the user sees when logging in (the user can override this preference after logged on here: Settings → My Account → Preferences → “Default Dashboard”).
Steps to create PORTALPATH system session variable
Find the path of the dashboard where you want to default it for every user.
You can find it in Oracle Business Intelligence – Catalog Manager
Open in online mode, provide the answer URL path
Provide the Administrator user and password
The catalog will open the current catalog folder list.
Navigate to shared folder, open the dashboard folder group and open the dashboard page which you want to default the page.
Copy the path above
Create a system session variable with initialization like below
Give the statement as select ‘/shared/India/_portal/Santosh_New’ from dual
Single quote is mandatory.
Create the variable target as PORTALPATH (can’t give any other name as it is reserved)
Test it
Save and close the Admin tool
Logon to Answers (presentation services) with any users, the default page will open as given in the variable.
The users can change it on the settings – my account to set any default page.