Load Wizard: Step 1 dialog

Use the Load Wizard to choose how you want to open a business area. For example, you might want to:

• create a new business area

• open an existing business area

For more information, see:

"What is the Load Wizard?"

"How to create a business area using the Load Wizard"

What do you want to do?

Create a new business area

Use this button to create a new business area. Discoverer displays the field "Where do you want to load the metadata from?".

Open an existing business area

Use this button to open an existing business area. Discoverer displays the field "Select one or more business areas to open".

If you choose Create a new business area, Discoverer displays the following options:

Where do you want to load the metadata from?

• On-line dictionary

  Use this radio button to load tables and views from the Oracle dictionary.

• Gateway

  Use this radio button to load tables and views from the data source you specify in this text box. Use the drop down list to select from available data sources.

  For more information about loading a business area from the gateway, see Chapter 4, "How to create a business area using the Load Wizard".

If you choose Open an existing business area, Discoverer displays the following options:

Select one or more business areas to open

Use this field to choose one or more business areas to open. Click the appropriate check boxes or use the Select All and Clear All buttons to help you select the business areas.

Notes

• Discoverer displays the Load Wizard automatically when you connect to an EUL. To display the Load Wizard when you are already connected to an EUL, choose File ¦ New.

• The Gateway option is only available when you are using Oracle Designer or have a registered EUL Gateway and all its tables are visible (for more information about setting up an EUL Gateway, see Chapter 3, "What is the EUL Gateway?"). If you are using Oracle Designer, the drop down list displays the Oracle Designer work areas to which you have access. Note that if you are using a version of Oracle Designer prior to Oracle Designer 6i, the drop down list simply displays `Oracle Designer repository'.

• If you are loading data from Oracle Designer 6i (i.e. where versioning is switched on), create a work area containing the set of object versions you want to load. We recommend that the work area rules are based on a configuration which defines a coherent release set of objects. It is important to make sure that no foreign key definitions within the work area reference tables/views outside the work area. To validate the work area is complete, use the Oracle Designer 'List External Reference' utility.

• If versioning (e.g. with Oracle Designer 6i) is not switched on, there will only be one default work area called the 'Global Shared Work area' containing all the objects, and this must be used.