Manually Importing Descriptive Flexfield Changes into Transactional Business Intelligence RPD

Caution!

Manually importing descriptive flexfield changes into Transactional Business Intelligence RPD should only be done in special circumstances, and the procedure requires a sophisticated understanding of your Transactional Business Intelligence environment. We strongly recommend that you use the automatic procedure described in Importing Key Flexfield Changes into Transactional Business Intelligence.

Note:

Perform a full backup the OBIEE RPD prior to manually importing descriptive flexfield changes.

Note:

We strongly recommend that you backup the OBIEE RPD every time prior to importing descriptive flexfield changes.

Note:

If you manually import Descriptive Flexfield Changes into Transactional Business Intelligence RPD, the RPD must deployed in the BI Server.

  To import descriptive flexfield changes into the Transactional Business Intelligence RPD:

  1. Navigate to the Import Metadata window as shown in Figure 25, Importing Descriptive Flexfield Changes.

    Figure 25. Importing Descriptive Flexfield Changes

    This screen shot displays the importing of descriptive flexfield changes in the Import Metadata window.

  2. Enter values in Select Data Source screen and click Next.

  3. Under Import Options, click Import selected objects only.

  4. In Data source view pane, select the key flexfield view objects, and import the view objects into the Repository View (physical layer) pane using the right arrow.

  5. Click Finish.

  6. Close the Import Metadata window.

  7. Navigate to the imported DFF VO in the physical layer.

  8. Identify the Logical Tables and the Logical Table Sources (LTS) in this DFF VO which must be added.

  9. Drag and drop the VO from the physical layer into this LTS.

  10. Expose the newly added DFF attributes from the Logical Table into the necessary presentation subject areas as required.