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Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics Scenario

Typically, an Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics user logs in to Oracle Business Intelligence on the Oracle BI Server, opens the disconnected page, and chooses a disconnected application to download. The Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics Application Manager starts on the disconnected machine and begins coordinating with Oracle Business Intelligence to download the disconnected application. Figure 1 illustrates this scenario.

The cylinder labeled Files for Disconnected Applications represents the location on the Oracle BI Server for the disconnected repository, the local Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, and the SQL scripts that are associated with the disconnected application. The numbers of the dashed lines in Figure 1 correspond to the numbers in the following list:

1. Oracle Business Intelligence on the Oracle BI Server sends a copy of the disconnected repository to the Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics Application Manager that stores the disconnected repository at the appropriate location on the disconnected machine. The Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics Application Manager also changes the Oracle BI Server's configuration file (NQSConfig.INI) on the disconnected machine to reference the disconnected repository.
2. Oracle Business Intelligence on the Oracle BI Server sends a copy of the local Oracle BI Presentation Catalog to the Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics Application Manager. Shared content from the full Oracle BI Presentation Catalog replaces content in the local catalog and is stored in the local catalog at the appropriate location on the disconnected machine. To avoid replacing or deleting reports in the local shared content, the user can copy the reports to the appropriate My Folder location in the catalog.
3. Oracle Business Intelligence on the Oracle BI Server downloads the SQL scripts and data files generated from the sourcing queries to the Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics Application Manager. The Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics Application Manager then executes the SQL scripts to create the SQL Anywhere tables and loads those tables from the data files.

If the synchronization operation completes successfully, then the user can click the Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics Application Manager's Start button to start the disconnected application on the disconnected machine. Note, however, that although users can download multiple applications to their disconnected machines, they can only run one application at a time. Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics does not support multiple concurrently running applications. Therefore, starting a disconnected application will result in shutting down any currently running disconnected application.