What Does the Catalog Manager Workspace Do?

Configuring and Managing the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog 17-21 ■ Create — Preserves the objects permissions ACL as it was in the original, creating and mapping accounts as necessary, depending on the mode and type of owner, as described in the following list: – Online mode — In online mode, Catalog Manager is communicating with the back-end security server. Catalog Manager knows about the users and application roles from that server and can usually paste a copied object with the appropriate user name or role. While pasting objects, keep in mind that you might lack appropriate permissions to create accounts for certain objects. – Offline mode — In offline mode, Catalog Manager has no connection with the back-end security server, so it is unaware of users and application roles that are stored there, unless their names are available in the cache for the catalog. If the name of the user or role for a copied object is not available in the cache, then Catalog Manager cannot paste the copied object with that name or role. Instead, the pasted object inherits its owner from its new parent folder, which is similar to the Inherit option. However, because Catalog groups are stored in the catalog rather than in the back-end security server, then Catalog Manager can associate Catalog groups with pasted objects as appropriate. This feature is used in applications whose administrators create accounts in a staging area before moving the users to the production environment. ■ Create Only Groups — Same as Create, but applies only to Catalog groups, not to user accounts. Works in a development to production environment similarly to Preserve Only Groups . If you have the appropriate permissions, then you can select a newly pasted object and set ownership recursively to the appropriate user. Consider the following example of pasting with ACL options set. Suppose that Steve owns the userssteveMyFavReport folder and has permissions ACL all users can readexecute, steve has full control. Joe who has some administration privileges logs in and copies MyFavReport, pasting it to userssue which is owned by administrator, with permissions admins have full control, sue has full control. If Joe sets the Paste ACL option to: ■ Inherit , then the userssueMyFavReport folder is owned by Joe with whatever permissions are set on the userssue folder that is, admins have full control, sue has full control. ■ Preserve , then the userssueMyFavReport folder is owned by Joe with whatever permissions were set on the userssteveMyFavReport folder that is, all users can readexecute, steve has full control. If Joe pastes in a second Catalog Manager and if steve does not exist in this Catalog, then the permissions for Steve are discarded. If steve exists but has a different user ID, then Steves user ID is mapped to the new one. ■ Create in online mode, then the userssueMyFavReport folder is owned by Joe with whatever permissions were set on the userssteveMyFavReport folder that is, all users can readexecute, Steve has full control. If Joe pastes in a second Catalog Manager and if steve does not exist in this catalog, then the owner is inherited from the parent folder. The Create option is deprecated in Release 11g as it applies only to Catalog groups.