Select More and then Permissions, or go to the In the Permissions table, go to the Owner column and click to specify the owner. Click OK. Select More and then Properties, or go to the Click OK.

Managing Objects in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog 13-15 role that displays in the Permission dialog . For example, suppose Employee A is a content designer and has created a dashboard for the Marketing department. Employee A completes the dashboard, saves it to the Marketing Department’s Shared folder, and assigns ownership of the dashboard to Employee B, who is a marketing manager and responsible for updating the dashboard. For more information about assigning ownership, see Assigning Ownership of Objects . In some situations a user or member of a group or role must take ownership of objects located in a Shared folder. In this case, the user who wants to take ownership must be assigned the proper privilege to complete this task. After these privileges are granted, the user sees the Take Ownership of this Item and the Take Ownership of this item and all subitems options in the Properties dialog . For example, suppose that Employee A has been granted the proper privilege to take ownership of objects and folders. When Employee B, who owns several catalog objects, leaves the company, Employee A can now access the Properties dialog for these objects, take ownership of the objects, and reassign ownership of the objects to Employee C. For more information about taking ownership, see Taking Ownership of Objects . Assigning Ownership of Objects Use the following procedure to assign ownership of an object or folder that is saved to a Shared folder. You must have the proper privilege to access the Permission dialog where you can then assign ownership of an object or folder. For more information, see Who Owns an Object? and Taking Ownership of Objects . To assign ownership of an object: 1. In the global header, click Catalog. The Catalog page is displayed. 2. Search for the object to which you want to assign ownership. For more information about searching, see Searching with the Basic Search . 3. Go to the Catalog area and locate an object or folder.

4. Select More and then Permissions, or go to the

Tasks pane and click Permissions . The Permission dialog is displayed.

5. In the Permissions table, go to the Owner column and click to specify the owner.

6. Click OK.

Taking Ownership of Objects Use the following procedure to take ownership of an object or folder that is saved to a Shared folder. You must have the proper privilege for the take ownership options to display in the Properties dialog . Note that the owner of an object or folder cannot automatically access the object or folder. To access an object, the user must have the proper permissions assigned in the object or folder’s Permission dialog . For more information, see Who Owns an Object? and Assigning Ownership of Objects . To take ownership of an object: 1. In the global header, click Catalog. The Catalog page is displayed. 2. Search for the object to which you want to assign ownership. For more information about searching, see Searching with the Basic Search . 3. Go to the Catalog area and locate an object or folder. 13-16 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

4. Select More and then Properties, or go to the

Tasks pane and click Properties. The Properties dialog is displayed. 5. In the Ownership area, do one the following: ■ If you are working with an object, click the Set Ownership of this item link. ■ If you are working with a folder or an object that contains sub-objects for example, a dashboard or scorecard, click the Set Ownership of this item link to take ownership of the object only, or click the Set Ownership of this item and all subitems to take ownership of the object and sub-objects.

6. Click OK.

What is Archiving? Archiving enables you to bundle the entire catalog, specific folders, or multi-component objects for example, scorecards as a .catalog file and upload the.catalog file to unarchive the data to another location in the catalog. This process enables you to transfer specific data across environments. For example, you can use this feature to transfer data from a development environment to a production environment. If you have the necessary privileges, then you can use the Oracle BI EE Catalog Manager to archive and unarchive catalog objects and perform other Catalog maintenance tasks. For more information about Catalog Manager, see Working with Objects in Catalog Manager in Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Archiving Objects Before you can archive, you must have been granted the proper privilege. To create an archive file: 1. In the global header, click Catalog. The Catalog page is displayed. 2. Search for the objects to archive. For more information about searching, see Searching with the Basic Search . 3. Go to the Folders pane to select the object.

4. Select More, then Archive below the object. The