Select File, then select Compare. Select the original Oracle BI repository. When prompted, provide the appropriate It is a good practice to equalize your changes to clean up underlying object IDs In the Compare repositories dialog, review the changes betw

16-18 Metadata Repository Builders Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Figure 16–9 Oracle BI Applications Repository Upgrade: Creating the Patch To apply the patch, you open the modified file and select the original file, then apply the patch. Figure 16–10 shows how to apply a patch in an Oracle BI Applications repository upgrade scenario. Figure 16–10 Oracle BI Applications Repository Upgrade: Applying the Patch Generating a Repository Patch Use the Administration Tool to generate a patch that contains the differences between two repositories. To generate a patch using the Administration Tool: 1. In the Administration Tool, open the current Oracle BI repository in offline mode. In other words, open the updated repository that contains the changes you want to put in the patch.

2. Select File, then select Compare.

3. Select the original Oracle BI repository. When prompted, provide the appropriate

password. The Compare repositories dialog appears.

4. It is a good practice to equalize your changes to clean up underlying object IDs

before generating a patch. See Equalizing Objects for more information.

5. In the Compare repositories dialog, review the changes between the repositories.

Then, click Create Patch. 6. In the Create Patch dialog, enter a name for the patch file for example, my_ patch.xml and click Save. Managing Oracle BI Repository Files 16-19 Applying a Repository Patch Use the Administration Tool to apply a patch that contains the differences between two repositories. Note that you can apply patches from a larger multiuser repository to a smaller subset extract repository. In this case, only the changes in the subset are applied from the patch. To apply a patch: 1. In the Administration Tool, open the modified Oracle BI repository in offline mode. In other words, open the repository on which you want to apply the patch.

2. Select File, then select Merge. The Merge Repository Wizard appears.

Figure 16–11 shows the Merge Repository Wizard. Figure 16–11 Merge Repository Wizard: Select Input Files Screen Patch Merge

3. For Merge Type, select Patch Repository Merge.

4. Click Select next to Original Master Repository. Browse to select the original

repository, then click Open. Note that the original repository cannot be the same as the modified currently open repository. 5. Enter the repository password for the original repository.

6. Click Select next to Patch File. Browse to select the patch file you want to apply,