Clone a Git Repository Using HTTPS

An HTTPS connection uses your Git user name and password to clone the Git repository to your development environment.

Note:

You must have BI Data Model Author permissions to access and use Semantic Modeler.

If you go to the Home page, click Create, and don't see the Semantic Modeler option, then ask your administrator to assign the BI Data Model Author permissions to you.

Before you can use HTTPS to clone a Git repository, you must:

• Get the semantic model Git repository's URL from the developer who initialized and uploaded it.
• Know your Git user name and password to create the Git profile to authenticate to the Git repository. If you're using Github, then instead of a Git user password, you need to know your personal access token. Or choose a profile that you use with other semantic model Git repositories. See View and Manage Git Profiles.

1. On the Home page, click Create and then click Semantic Model.
2. In Create Semantic Model enter a name for the semantic model. Click Create.
3. In the Create Semantic Model options page, click Clone a Git Repository.
4. In Clone a Git Repository, enter the repository's URL. The URL must have this format: https://gitserver.com/myorg/myproject.git. Click Continue.
5. Click Git profile and specify the profile you want to use to clone the repository.
   • Select a Git profile that you've already used to initialize or clone a Git repository.
   • Select New Profile and enter a profile name and your Git user name and password to create a profile. If you're using Github, then instead of entering a Git user password, you enter your personal access token.
6. Click Clone.
   The Semantic Modeler editor opens and the new semantic model's layers are populated with the cloned model's metadata, objects, and properties.