What Does the Catalog Manager Workspace Look Like?

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. 17-22 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

17.6.3 Renaming Catalog Objects

You can rename objects in the catalog. This can be useful when you are migrating from a test environment to a production environment. There are two ways to rename an object: ■ Rename without reference updates — Renames the object and preserves the references to the original name that other catalog objects might have. ■ Rename with reference updates — Renames the object and changes references that other objects might have to the new name that is, original name references are not preserved. This feature is also known as Smart Rename. You can open the catalog in either offline or online mode. In offline mode, you can rename all objects. In online mode, you might be unable to rename certain objects, depending on your permissions. To rename an object without reference updates: 1. In Catalog Manager, open the catalog.

2. Navigate to the object to be renamed.

3. Right-click the object in the Name column and select Rename.

4. Type a new name for the object.

To rename an object with reference updates: 1. In Catalog Manager, open the catalog in offline mode.

2. Navigate to the object to be renamed.

3. Right-click the object in the Name column and select Smart Rename.

4. Type a new name for the object.

A progress bar in the lower-right corner of the window shows the progress of the reference updates.

17.6.4 Working with the Properties of Catalog Objects

Using the Properties option of Catalog Manager, you can: ■ Create, view, edit, and delete the properties of catalog objects. ■ Change attributes of catalog objects to hide them from display in Oracle Business Intelligence. To work with the properties of a catalog object: 1. In Catalog Manager, open the catalog. Caution: Keep the following points in mind when renaming objects: ■ You cannot rename a user account in the catalog. If you rename a users home directory, then you do not rename that user and you might see unexpected results. ■ The catalog contains several reserved names of objects. Rename only your own objects, not those that Presentation Services creates internally. For example, do not rename the _portal directory in your home directory, because then you cannot see My Dashboard.