The Problem: multiple individuals working on the same WordPress installation require an easy method for updating the plugins they’re responsible for; simultaneously, the sysadmin doesn’t feel cozy allowing the web server group to have write access to indiscriminate locations throughout the filesystem, something required by WP’s default ‘direct’ update method. The Solution: updates via SSH2 using a dedicated WP update user with restricted SSH access. There are several guides out there that will walk you through the process of setting up SSH2 update access for WordPress, but don’t quite satisfy various security and convenience restraints you may be looking for; … Read More
OBIEE – Column vs. Variable Prompts
When using dashboard prompts in OBIEE Analytics, you are given access to a few different types of prompts to choose from. Two of these variations will be the focus of this discussion, column and variable. If you have never used both types, it’s difficult to understand the key difference, and why one prompt type may be more useful than the other in certain situations. Column Prompt The column prompt is the more basic of the two being discussed today. This type of prompt holds a value of a chosen field from a specific view that will be passed to the filter inside of an analysis. … Read More