Starting Catalog Manager Starting Catalog Manager and Opening Catalogs

17-18 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition In the Catalog page of Presentation Services, you can view folders and contents including hidden objects. You can create, rename, copy, move, and delete folders and contents. For more information, see Managing Objects in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog in Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

17.6.1 Searching for Catalog Objects Using Catalog Manager

You can search for objects in the catalog using the Search function. For example, you might want to search for all objects that have a property with the value of administrator. When you search, you can limit the search by: ■ Case Sensitive — Select this check box to apply case sensitivity to the search criteria. The default value is unchecked. ■ Name — Limits the search to the names of objects. ■ Description — Limits the search to the Description property. ■ Property values — Limits the search to the values of properties. ■ Owner — Limits the search to the owners of objects. ■ Object type — Searches for all types of objects or limits the search to a specific type of object that you specify for example, analyses, filters, agents, dashboard prompts, dashboard pages. ■ Date — Limits the search to objects that were created on the dates that you specify or to objects that were last modified on the dates that you specify. To search for an object: 1. In Catalog Manager, open the catalog and navigate to the location in the tree where you want to begin the search.

2. Click Search on the toolbar.

3. In the Search for any or all criteria below field, enter the word or phrase to search

for.

4. To make the search case-sensitive, select the Case Sensitive box.

5. To limit the search, then click Advanced Search.

6. In the Advanced Search area, specify the constraints for the search.

7. Click Search.

Note: Changes made in the Presentation layer of the Oracle BI Administration Tool can affect analyses and dashboards based on those tables and columns. You can use Catalog Manager to keep the catalog synchronized with these changes in the Presentation layer. Tip: When you have finished searching, click Explore the entire catalog tree on the toolbar to return to the Tree and Table panes.