Overview of User and Application Role Commands

Learn about commands that you can use with the repository and the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog.

You can use the following commands to update application roles and users stored in the repository and the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog:

• Rename Application Role Command

• Delete Application Role Command

• Rename Users Command

• Delete Users Command

The remaining upload and update commands, for example, Upload Repository Command and Update Repository Variables Command, only update the repository.

The application roles and users update commands use two plugins, the Oracle BI repository plugin, which updates the application roles and users in the repository, and the WEBCAT plugin, which updates application roles and the users in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog.

These plugins function separately, and therefore the failure of one doesn't impact the other. In the event of a partial failure, or one of the two plugins failing, Oracle recommends that you address the root cause of the failure and then re-run the command as you initially ran it. Reapplying the successful plugin has no impact on the results, but re-running the command reruns the failed plugin.

By default, the application roles and users update commands run the two plugins, and the order in which they're run is Oracle BI repository and then WEBCAT. However, the commands include the -L option which allows you to specify an individual plugin or to reverse the default order in which the plugins are run. Run the commands in the default order. You might need to run only one plugin or reverse the order of the plugins.