OBIEE 11g: Cannot Copy Data from Reports and Paste to the Windows Clipboard

Scenario:  After placing the reports on the dashboard or in the Results tab the user may want to select a specific cell or complete table/pivot table and copy it to the clip board subsequently they would like to copy the clipboard content to excel or csv or text file etc...

We raised a service request to Oracle Support and got the following answer.

OBIEE 11g: Cannot Copy Data from Reports and Paste to the Windows Clipboard (Doc ID 1287265.1)

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Applies to:

Business Intelligence Server Enterprise Edition - Version 11.1.1.3.0 [1905] and later
Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition - Version 11.1.1.3.0 [1905] and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

You are not able to copy text from tables or pivot views and paste to the Windows clipboard in OBIEE 11g. It was possible in OBIEE 10g by clicking and marking the area of the content of a table and copying it into the Windows clipboard.

Cause

It is a feature not yet available in OBIEE 11g.
There are two enhancement requests for this functionality:

Bug: 9927279 - 11g beta : unable to copy data from 11g table or pivot table like in 10g
Bug 10406798 - unable to copy data from 11g table or pivot table like in 10g

Solution

Please be advised that the following bugs are still open; however, see if the following work-around steps help:

1. Place the mouse cursor outside the view and click.
2. Drag the mouse across the view to highlight the data you want to copy.
3. Use control+C or copy from the edit menu or right mouse menu to copy the text to the clipboard.

Please note this workaround only works with Internet Explorer.  It does not work with Firefox or Chrome.

References

BUG:9927279 - 11G BETA : UNABLE TO COPY DATA FROM 11G TABLE OR PIVOT TABLE LIKE IN 10G