What Options are Available for Provisioning?

17-30 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition For information, see Section 17.8.2, About Searching for and Replacing Multiple Catalog Text Strings. 2. In Catalog Manager, open the catalog in offline mode.

3. From the Tools menu, select XML Search and Replace.

4. In the Import from File field, enter the path or click Browse to specify the XML

file that you created in Step 1.

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

6. Click OK.

17.9 Creating Reports to Display Catalog Data Using Catalog Manager

You can create reports to display catalog data for all catalog object types. You can either display the report on the screen or save it to a file. For example, to find out which dashboards are using an analysis, you could run a Dashboard report including analyses, and search that report for the analysis. Or, to find analyses that are affected by a changed column in an RPD table, you could run an Analysis report including all columns and formulas, and then search the report for the items that must then be replaced in Catalog Manager. When you create a report, a blank or empty field is exported as a tab character. If you are creating a report with the default of a tab as the field separator, then two tab characters in the report file indicate a blank field. To create a report that displays catalog data: 1. In Catalog Manager, open the catalog. To create a report that shows the SQL statement that is sent to the Oracle BI Server for the object, open the catalog in online mode. 2. Select the top folder for the catalog.

3. From the Tools menu, select Create Report.

4. Select the catalog object type to create a report on.

5. To eliminate any rows that are the same from the report, select the Distinct box.

6. Specify the columns to appear in the report in the Columns in Report list. Use the left and right-arrow buttons and to move the columns between the Available Columns list and the Columns in Report list, and the plus and minus buttons + and - to set the order in which columns are displayed in the report.

7. Click OK.

8. Repeat Steps 4 through 7 until you the report contains the appropriate columns.

9. To save the report to a file, in the Save report to field, specify the path name of the

file. Click the Browse button to display the Save As dialog for selecting the path name if the file does not exist, then it is created.

10. Click OK to overwrite an existing file or click Cancel and enter a new name to

save to a new file.

11. Select Excel Format to specify to create a file with a .tab extension that can be

imported into Microsoft Excel 2003 or later.

12. Click OK.

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17.10 Archiving and Unarchiving Using Catalog Manager

Catalog Manager provides the ability to archive and unarchive either an individual catalog folder or an entire catalog. See the following list for important information on this functionality: ■ When you archive an individual catalog folder, all objects in the folder and the folders subfolders are saved in single compressed file. Properties and attributes of objects are included in the archive file. ■ When you unarchive an individual catalog folder, the archive file is uncompressed and all objects in the folder and the folders subfolders are then stored in the current offline catalog. Existing folders that have the same names as folders being unarchived are overwritten without warning. ■ Archiving and unarchiving an entire catalog using Catalog Manager or the Catalog page in Presentation Services is not recommended. Instead, use either the 7-Zip utility or .tar.gz files on UNIX systems for archiving and unarchiving an entire catalog. ■ Do not use the following utilities when archiving and unarchiving an entire catalog: – WinZip — The WinZip utility does not always handle extended UNIX file permissions properly. Using the WinZip utility to move catalogs in heterogeneous environments might lead to corrupted catalog files. – FTP — Some third-party FTP programs rename internal files, which might lead to corrupted catalog files. Before moving a catalog using an FTP program, use the 7-Zip utility to compress the catalog into one file. You can use the Catalog page in Presentation Services to archive and unarchive objects. For information, see Archiving Objects in Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

17.10.1 Archiving a Folder Using Catalog Manager

Use the following procedure to archive a catalog folder. To archive an individual catalog folder in the catalog to a file that you specify: 1. In Catalog Manager, open the catalog in offline mode.

2. Highlight the catalog folder and from the File menu, select Archive.

3. In the Archive File Path field, specify the path name of the file in which to archive

the folder. Click Browse to display a dialog for selecting the path name. 4. To archive the: ■ Timestamps that are assigned to the objects and folders that you are archiving, then select the Keep file time stamps option. If you do not select this option, then the archiving process does not include timestamp information and the Old option in the Paste Overwrite area of the Preferences dialog is ignored. Upon unarchiving, the system applies a timestamp that indicates the time at which the object or folder is unarchived. See Section 17.6.2.2, Advanced Options for Pasting Objects for more information. ■ Permissions that are assigned to each object or folder, then select the Keep permissions option.