When exporting Reporting and Analysis artifacts for editing on the file system, the artifacts are exported as follows:
General objects (such as docs and PDF files), BQY files and jobs, OCE files, SQR and Generic jobs
These files are exported for edit as a set of files in a zip archive. The zip archive includes an XML file containing the object’s metadata and one or more binary files from the FS repository.
To edit these files:
Export the artifacts. See Exporting Individual Artifacts for Editing.
Unzip the content.
Note the binary file names and rename them to enable the operating system to open the files with the appropriate application (for example, add the .BQY extension).
Edit the artifacts.
Rename the binary files back to the original names noted in step 3.
Add the edited file to the archive using the replace option.
Import the archive back into the application. See Importing Individual Artifacts After Editing.
Financial Reporting objects
Financial Reporting objects are exported the same way as the objects listed previously. After exporting Financial Reporting objects for editing, the resulting zip archive includes an XML file with metadata and a set of files internally representing Financial Reporting objects in Reporting and Analysis. You can only edit the object's metadata since binary representation is not plain/user-friendly.
Web Analysis objects
These objects are represented as a zipped XML file that contains both the metadata and the actual content of the Web Analysis artifacts. They can be edited, but there is no tool to work with such objects on the file system, and there is no guarantee that the integrity is preserved after the files are edited and imported back into application.