OBIEE 12c - Report UI Customizations lost on import of BAR catalog

Question

Hi,

In our OBIEE 12c UI a user can save reporting customization's from the Page Options menu (cog wheel on top left of UI).  These customizations are saved under the specific user in $BI_DOMAIN/bidata/service_instances/<service_instance>/metadata/content/catalog/root/users.

However once a new BAR file is imported with an updated Catalog, the import replaces the entire....catalog/root folder and all customizations are lost on the target server.  I know that the users content can be included in the BAR file but this doesn't help if we are releasing an updated catalog from our development server to a existing setup on a production server, all user content on the production server is lost.

Is there something i'm missing here or has anyone hit this same scenario?

Thanks

Adrian

[Deleted User] · Answer

BAR for security+rpd and runcat for catalog. Perfectly valid as well.

I am not a fan of these huge "one hit kills all" approaches

OracleUser_MUC6U · Answer

Hi Christian,

Yes before BAR feature we used runcat.sh to deploy Catalog.  We switched to use the BAR file for releasing updates so we could deploy security changes and also the benefit of everything is packaged in one file.

Its a bit of a short sight, there doesn't seem to be a way to release incremental Catalog changes using the BAR?  We may have to go back to our old way of using runcat.sh :-(

Adrian

[Deleted User] · Answer

There is no obligation to use BAR files for moving between environments.

You can do everything by command line as well and be 100 times more specific. All you need is the runcat.sh/cmd.