Hiding Catalog and Open links from Users in OBIEE 11.1.1.5

Oracle support have thought of this for us - Useful but limiting and only really applies to 11.1.1.5

How to remove Catalog, Open, Advanced, Help, Home and Search links in OBIEE 11.1.1.5 [ID 1349315.1]

In order to accomplish this following steps need to be performed:

In OBIEE 11.1.1.5 the following new expressions have been added in saw.sessioninfos.xml file. This file is under $ORACLE_HOME/bifoundation/web/msgdb/common/

Edit saw.sessioninfos.xml file, you will see following tags:

<gdexpression id="hdrLinkCatalog" expr="true" />
<gdexpression id="hdrLinkOpen" expr="true" />
<gdexpression id="hdrLinkAdvanced" expr="true" />
<gdexpression id="hdrLinkHelp" expr="true" />
<gdexpression id="hdrLinkHome" expr="true" />
<gdexpression id="hdrLinkGSearch" expr="true" />

Each of these control the display of a UI element in the global header.
By setting the value to "false" instead of "true", the corresponding UI element in the global header can be hidden.

For changes to take effect, please re-start BI Services and clear Browser cache.

IMPORTANT: Finally, note that this change is global, meaning will affect all users. Currently there is an Enhancement Request which has as objective to control these changes via permissions so it can be set at user level, (Bug 10173641).