Oracle BI OTBI projects can either source catalog objects from an SCM or Development servers, i.e you OTBI instances. You will either have the option to Populate from Git (or other SCM type) or Populate from OTBI Web Catalog on files tab of your project. Similar to other technologies, FlexDeploy can sync files from a development server to a source code repository. This helps implement DevOps best practice to source control developer code. Due to inherent differences in naming of objects (mainly file extensions), this requires some additional steps in the workflow.Ensure project
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The OTBI plugin manipulates the file extensions of exported/downloaded objects in order to encapsulate meta-data about each object. For this reason, you cannot simply download the .catalog files from OTBI and place them in source control. This would not be compatible with the build and deploy operations of the OTBI plugin. FlexDeploy provides OTBI export and download operations to simplify this so that you do not need to map the files directly into the required extensions. |
exportWebCatalog
This operation is useful when you want export specific files from OTBI. This is managed through a package within a partial deployment project (separate from the project that is used for build/deploy).
Ensure project classification is Partial Deployments and project type is Oracle Transactional BI otherwise build will not pull OTBI objectsBI. Your project for this purpose may look something like this.
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