We recently upgraded from OBIEE 12 to OAS 5.5. (Oracle Business Intelligence to Oracle Analytics Server). After the upgrade, we were not able to save analyses that contained HTML markup. We were able to do this before the upgrade.

Turns out, the configuration parameter for this now needs to be set in the new analytics/systemsettings page. Go to that page and enable the option “Allow HTML Content”. Then restart by clicking on the Restart button on that page.

After a restart, it resolved the issue for us.

If this doesn’t resolve it for you, you may need to remove the parameter from the instance config file and try again.

Back up your instanceconfig.xml file. Then edit it by removing the element “EnableSavingContentWithHTML” from the Security section and save the file. You will be removing a line that looks something like this:

“<EnableSavingContentWithHTML>true</EnableSavingContentWithHTML>”

Then go back to the analytics/systemsettings page, confirm “Allow HTML Content” is enabled, and restart again. This hopefully should resolve your issue.