Oracle OTBI projects can either source catalog objects from an SCM source code repository or Development OTBI instances. In your OTBI project used to build and deploy WebCatalog objects 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 practices to source control developer code.
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The OTBI plugin manipulates the file extensions and paths of exported/downloaded objects in order to encapsulate meta-data establish metadata about each object. For this reason, you cannot simply download the .catalog files from an 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 (new in 5.6.0.6) operations to simplify so that you do not need to map manipulate the files manually with the required structure and extensions. |
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