Previewing Objects from Catalog Manager

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.