When you load a metadata file, Financial Management replaces metadata with new metadata from the load file. Replacement is useful for making minor changes to the metadata, such as adding an account. For example, if your application includes a North America entity and you load entities from a metadata file, the attributes for the North America entity in the file replace the attributes for the North America entity in the application.
Note: | Do not use the ampersand ( & ) character in a metadata file. If you do, an error occurs. |
Loading large metadata files on the Web can result in a proxy timeout error. If this occurs, increase the Web proxy timeout setting or use the Win32 client to load the file.
When you load metadata files, the system waits for other tasks such as consolidation, data entry or other load processes to finish before proceeding to load the files. Oracle recommends that you load metadata during periods of light activity across the server cluster instead of, for example, during a long-running consolidation. You can check the Running Tasks page to see which consolidations or data loads, for example, are in progress.
After you load a metadata file to an application, users using the application are notified that the system has changed and that they must log off from the application and log back on.
Caution! | You must delete orphaned members before loading; if orphaned members are not deleted, metadata is not updated. |