Downloads WebCatalog objects from an OBIEE server to the file system. This operation can be used from a utility workflow, which can also be augmented to sync the files to a source control management system (such as Git or Subversion). This allows the OBIEE project which is used for build and deployment to source from a source code repository rather than a development instance of OBIEE.

Endpoint Requirement

This operation uses must be executed on the endpoint which contains the OBIEE WebLogic Server.

Target Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description
OBIEE Server Host	`FDOBIEE_SERVER_HOST`	Yes	The managed server host name for OBIEE.
OBIEE Server Port	`FDOBIEE_SERVER_PORT`	Yes	The managed server port number for OBIEE.(e.g. 9502)
OBIEE Server User	`FDOBIEE_USER`	Yes	The user to log into OBIEE. Should have sufficient privileges to move and upload data.
OBIEE Server Password	`FDOBIEE_PASSWORD`	Yes	The password for the user to login to OBIEE.
OBIEE Server SSL Connection	`FDOBIEE_SERVER_USE_SSL`	Yes	Indicates whether the managed server for OBIEE is using SSL.
Oracle Middleware Home (MW_HOME)	`FD_ORACLE_MW_HOME`	Yes	The Oracle Middleware Home (which has subfolders such as oracle_common, wlserver, coherence*, etc.) (e.g. /u01/oracle/products/fmw)

Project Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description

Property Name

Property Code

Required

Description

OBIEE Analytics WSDL Path

FDOBIEE_ANALYTICS_WSDL_PATH

No

@since 6.5.0.6

The path to the analytics WSDL. We don’t recommend changing this option unless the OBIEE instance you are using has a different path to the analytics WSDL. Use at your own risk.

Default value - /analytics-ws/saw.dll/wsdl/v7

Discover Sub-Files

FDOBIEE_DISCOVER_SUB_ITEMS

No

Select the objects to make their sub-files to be discoverable in the file catalog.

Inputs

Input Name	Input Code	Required	Description

Input Name	Input Code	Required	Description
WebCatalog Object Path	`FDOBIEE_INP_OBJECT_PATH`	Yes	The WebCatalog path to be downloaded. Separate folders with a forward slash (/). (e.g. /shared/Sample Lite)
Target Project Type	`FDOBIEE_INP_DOWNLOAD_PRJ_TYPE`	Yes	The FlexDeploy project type that will be used to build and deploy the downloaded objects. Defaults to recommended type of Oracle BI 2.0.
Download Folder	`FDOBIEE_INP_DOWNLOAD_FOLDER`	No	Absolute or relative target folder path. Relative path will be assumed in FD_TEMP_DIR.
Copy Object Permissions	`FDOBIEE_INP_COPY_PERMISSIONS`	Yes	Copy object with current permissions. If false, parent folder permissions in deploy environment will be used.
Keep Timestamps	`FDOBIEE_INP_PRESERVE_TIMESTAMPS`	Yes	Download object with timestamp details.
Discover Sub-Files	`FDOBIEE_INP_DISCOVER_SUB_ITEMS`	No	Select the objects to make their sub-files to be discoverable in the file catalog.

Artifacts

This operation does not produce any artifacts.

Endpoint Selection

This operation delegates endpoint selection to the workflow developer. The workflow editor will default the selection to "All", which selects all available endpoints associated to the Target. Selecting a specific resource will result in selection of endpoints associated to the Target which have that resource defined.

Endpoint Execution

This operation delegates endpoint execution to the workflow developer. The workflow editor will default to "Any", which will execute on any one of the selected endpoints, which will be randomly picked from selected endpoints or a specific endpoint where previous step may have executed. Changing this value to "All" to will result in execution on all selected endpoints.

FlexDeploy 6.5

downloadWebCatalog (OBIEE)