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In the case of the RPD and DataModels, property replacement on variables and connection pool information is supported via a configuration file that should reside in an SCM repository. For more information on Property Replacement for OBIEE, see RPD Configuration File Setup and Datamodel Configuration File Setup. Note that if you want to provide a config file for both the RPD and datasources DataModels and deploy both at the same time using partial deploy, the two configurations should reside in one common file which is specified on the obiDeploy input Config File.
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