Adding Additional P6 Sample Reports If You Upgraded from a Previous P6 EPPM R8.x Version and Use BI Publisher 11g

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If you were using an R8.x version of P6 EPPM and upgraded to 8.3, and you are using BI Publisher 11g, you can add new reports to your P6Reports catalog.

To add the new reports:

1. Copy the P6Reports.zip from the P6 media pack to a temporary location.
2. Extract the contents of P6Reports.zip and open the extracted folder.
3. Depending on your database, open the P6reportsOraBIPub11g or P6reportsSQLBIPub11g folder.
4. Open the Other folder.
5. Copy the P6reportsOraBIPub11g_Other.xdrz or P6reportsSQLBIPub11g_Other.xdrz to the BI Publisher repository (or preferred location).

   Example: C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\config\bipublisher\repository\Reports

6. Login to BI Publisher as an administrative user.
7. Select Catalog.
8. In the Folders pane, highlight P6Reports.
9. In the Tasks pane, click Upload.
10. In the Upload dialog box:
    1. Click Browse.
    2. Go to the location where you copied the P6reportsOraBIPub11g_Other.xdrz or P6reportsSQLBIPub11g_Other.xdrz file and select it.
    3. Click Open.
    4. Click Upload.
11. Verify that P6reportsOraBIPub11g_Other.xdrz or P6reportsSQLBIPub11g_Other folder is now under the P6Reports folder.
12. Rename the folder if necessary.
13. Follow the steps in Setting the Data Source for Each Sample Report for BI Publisher 11g to finalize the upload.