When you are certain that you want to delete the selected folder, click Yes.

6-18 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer The folder is now assigned to the business areas you specified in the Current business areas list. How to view orphaned folders in the EUL To view orphaned folders in the EUL:

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Choose Tools | Manage Folders and display the Manage Folders dialog: Orphaned Folders tab . Discoverer displays all the Orphaned Folders in the current EUL. How to remove an orphaned folder from the EUL To remove an orphaned folder from the EUL:

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Choose Tools | Manage Folders and display the Manage Folders dialog: By Business Area tab . Use the Orphaned Folders tab to delete an orphan folder from the EUL.

2. Select the folder that you want to delete from the Orphaned Folders field.

3. Click Delete to remove the highlighted folder from the EUL You can select more than one orphaned folder by pressing the Ctrl key and clicking another orphaned folder. 4. Click OK to save the changes you have made. The folder is now deleted from the current EUL. How to sort folders in a business area You can alphabetically sort folders in a selected business area. To alphabetically sort folders in a business area:

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Select a business area in the Workarea: Data tab . 2. Choose Edit | Sort Folders. Note: Discoverer Administrator displays the Alphabetical Sort dialog indicating the number of folders that will be alphabetically sorted and stating that the existing order will be lost. 3. Click Yes to continue. Notes Folders can also be sorted during bulk load when you load a business area. For information about sorting folders when using the: ■ Load Wizard, see How to create a business area using the Load Wizard ■ command-line interface, see load How to sort items in a folder You can alphabetically sort items in a selected folder. To alphabetically sort items in a folder: Creating and Maintaining Folders 6-19

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Select a folder from a business area in the Workarea: Data tab . 2. Choose Edit | Sort items. Note: Discoverer Administrator displays the Alphabetical Sort dialog indicating the number of items that will be alphabetically sorted and stating that the existing order will be lost. 3. Click Yes to continue. Notes Items can also be sorted during bulk load when you load a business area. For information about sorting items when using the: ■ Load Wizard, see How to create a business area using the Load Wizard ■ command-line interface, see load How to re-order folders in a business area The order in which you see folders displayed in Discoverer Administrator is the same order that Discoverer end users will see. By default, folders within a business area are displayed in alphabetical order. However, you might want to change the default order to: ■ group folders that are logically connected ■ move the most commonly used folders to the top of the list To change the order of folders in a business area:

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Display the Workarea: Data tab . 2. Drag and drop the folder to the position where you want it to appear in the list of folders. How to validate folders in a business area Occasionally, you might encounter difficulties with Discoverer Administrator folders. For example, you might be able to see folders in Discoverer Administrator that Discoverer end users cannot access. Use the Validate Folders facility to help you diagnose the problem. To validate the link between the folders in a business area and the database objects to which they refer:

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Choose View | Validate Folders. The Validate Folders facility uses the database parser to check that the relevant tables exist in the database and the EUL owner has SELECT access to them. If there are any errors, a message is displayed alongside the relevant folders.