Online Mode Understanding the Two Catalog Modes

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. Configuring and Managing the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog 17-19

17.6.2 Copying and Pasting Objects

You can copy and paste objects within a single catalog. You can also copy objects from one catalog and paste them into another catalog.

17.6.2.1 Tips for Copying and Pasting

Use the following tips as you copy and paste objects: ■ You can copy and paste objects using the following methods: – Menu options, as described in Section 17.6.2.1.1, Copying and Pasting Objects Between Catalogs Using Menus. – Drag and drop, to copy objects between two catalogs and within the same catalog. Drag and drop always makes a copy of the dragged objects, even when performing a drag and drop within a single catalog. – Archive and unarchive, as described in Section 17.10, Archiving and Unarchiving Using Catalog Manager. When you archive, you create a file that you can save for later use. The unarchiving process automatically overwrites any files without providing the opportunity to specify that certain files not be overwritten. ■ Catalogs are structured in hierarchical folders. When copying or merging objects, remember to also copy any objects that are associated with them, such as dashboard folders, shortcuts, and analyses. URL paths in external applications can be reestablished after a copy or merge operation if the entire folder path is not copied, for example, if added to the dashboard as a shortcut or text. ■ Most often, you can simply copy and paste objects as needed. If required, you can set advanced options that affect the objects that you are pasting. For complete information, see Section 17.6.2.2, Advanced Options for Pasting Objects.

17.6.2.1.1 Copying and Pasting Objects Between Catalogs Using Menus The following

procedure describes how to copy and paste objects between two catalogs using menu options. If the two catalogs have the same name, then you might want to rename one of the catalogs before opening it to help distinguish between the two catalogs as you work. Both catalogs must be the same version 11.1.1 or later. To copy and paste objects between catalogs using menus: 1. In Catalog Manager, open the catalog to change, that is the target catalog. 2. Using another instance of the Catalog Manager, open the catalog that contains the objects to copy, that is the source catalog. 3. If necessary, reposition both instances of Catalog Manager on your screen so you can display the title bars of both Catalog Manager instances.

4. In the source catalog, right-click the source object and select Copy.

5. In the target catalog, right-click at the point where you want to paste the source object and select Paste.

17.6.2.2 Advanced Options for Pasting Objects

You can set advanced options in the Preferences dialog for pasting objects that you have copied, as described in the following sections: ■ Section 17.6.2.2.1, Paste Overwrite ■ Section 17.6.2.2.2, Paste ACL