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How to select required application into BI Application Archive (BAR) file. OBIEE 12C

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Sudheep Divakar
Sudheep Divakar Rank 1 - Community Starter
edited Aug 13, 2024 6:09PM in Oracle Analytics Cloud and Server

Hi,

I am in the course of developing a script to generate .bar file with a set of required applications metadata from the development server using wlst. BI Application Archive is the exact match for this requirement as this outputs a .bar file which can be added into the build and later be imported into any other environments.

As I understood, BI Application Archive adds all the applications in the instance into the .bar file. Development server may have test or under development reports which need not be part of the archive. I am wondering how to generate .bar file with only the required applications.

Any help is appreciated.

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  • Gianni Ceresa
    Gianni Ceresa Mod

    Hi,

    You are talking about applications but this is just your own definition and segmentation of a single OBIEE instance, these applications doesn't reflect on the server as independent things.

    That's why the BAR will contains your full OBIEE and when you import it you import the full OBIEE (ok, you can import only some layers of the BAR but still no "silos" approach taking only HR content or Finance content etc.).

    As the concept of applications doesn't exist you can't then say "please generate a BAR with only the HR reports and that precise dashboard for finance and these 3 analysis there for the other guys".

    Have a look at what @rmoff presented few days ago at Tech16 UKOUG: https://speakerdeck.com/rmoff/source-control-code-deployment-and-concurrent-development-for-obiee-12c

    You will probably find there inside some answers on why it can't be done and what else you can do to make it works better for your needs.

    PS: yours is more a problem of concurrent development (even not many developers you have multiple objects at various stages of development)

  • rmoff
    rmoff Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    It sounds like @3337840 is talking -perhaps inadvertently- about the idea of pluggable BI. This has been on Oracle's roadmap slides for a year or so now, the idea that as @Gianni Ceresa says, you can take just a "HR" 'application' and deploy it alongside other 'applications'.

    So far as I'm aware, it is only that though -- slideware.

    For the here and now, OBIEE 12.2.1, you can only work with BAR files at the grain of the entire service instance, i.e. the complete RPD/Catalog/Security model. You use WLST export/importServiceInstance commands to work with these bar files.

    As well as the presentation that @Gianni Ceresa mentions, I have just published a blog that is relevant here: https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/12/source-control-and-automated-code-deployment-options-for-obiee/