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OBIEE METADATA DICTONARY

IMPLEMENTATION AND CONFIGURATION GUIDE

Client

OBIEE

Period

Version

1.0 Peer Reviewed

Date

10 December 2008

Author

John Minkjan

CIBER Service coordinator

Application

OBIEE

Short description

Implementation and configuration

guide for the OBIEE Metadata

dictionary

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OBIEE METADATA DICTONARY


Implementation and Configuration
Document number OBIEE 007
Version 1.0
Status Peer Reviewed
Date 10 December 2008
Author John Minkjan
Approved by John Minkjan
Approved on 10 December 2008

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OBIEE METADATA DICTONARY Implementation and Configuration


TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Management Summary.........................................................................................4
1.1 General .....................................................................................................................................4
2 Preparing the metadata dictionary ......................................................................5
2.1 Prerequisites .............................................................................................................................5
2.2 Generating the metadata dictionary..........................................................................................5
3 Deploying the metadata dictionary to the web server. ......................................8
3.1 OC4J Prerequisites ...................................................................................................................8
3.2 OC4J web server ......................................................................................................................8
3.3 ISS Prerequisites ....................................................................................................................10
4 Granting access to the metadata dictionary.....................................................12

OBIEE METADATA DICTONARY Implementation and Configuration


1 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY

1.1 General
The metadata dictionary is a very powerful support package within OBIEE. Sadly it is not commonly
used at this moment. This is mainly caused by the fact that the functionality is very poorly documented
by Oracle.

This document describes the configuration and implementation of the OBIEE metadata dictionary both
on an OC4J and an IIS web services. (Other web services can be easily configured based on of these
systems)

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2 PREPARING THE METADATA DICTIONARY

2.1 Prerequisites
The account used for implementing this functionality must have full access to:
• The source repositories
• The Presentation server.
• The Web server.

2.2 Generating the metadata dictionary

Open the repository in Offline mode:

Go to tools utilities:

Select Generate Metadata Dictionary:

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Select a destination directory:

On successful finish you will get:

If you are replacing you might get this:

Navigate to your {OBIEE MetaData Dictionary}\ {repository_name}

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Open NameIndex in a browser to check the readability.

Open TreeIndex in a browser to check the readability.

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3 DEPLOYING THE METADATA DICTIONARY TO THE WEB
SERVER.

3.1 OC4J Prerequisites


First we have to tell the presentation server where to find the dictionary. This is configured in the
INSTANCECONFIG.XML file. Usually this file is found in {OracleBIDate}\web\config.
Open the file and add:
<SubjectAreaMetadata>
<DictionaryURLPrefix>/analytics/dictionary</DictionaryURLPrefix>
</SubjectAreaMetadata>
between the <WebConfig> tags.

WOW: Some OBIEE config tags and the contents are CaSe SeNsItIvE!

3.2 OC4J web server

Create the “dictionary” directory in the analytics application folder:

Usually {OracleBI}\oc4j_bi\j2ee\home\application\analytics\analytic. (it’s the folder where your


SAW.DLL is located).

Copy the content of your dictionary export folder to this folder:

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Restart the presentation server

Log in as administrator in answer, select the subject area:

Click on the dictionary symbol:

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3.3 ISS Prerequisites
Create a new virtual directory in your IIS manager

Add the virtual directory to your INSTANCECONFIG.XML. Usually this file is found in
{OracleBIDate}\web\config.

<SubjectAreaMetadata>
<DictionaryURLPrefix>/analyticsDictionary/</DictionaryURLPrefix>
</SubjectAreaMetadata>

WOW: Some OBIEE config tags and the contents are CaSe SeNsItIvE!

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Restart the presentation server

Log in as administrator in answer, select the subject area:

Click on the dictionary symbol:

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4 GRANTING ACCESS TO THE METADATA DICTIONARY

Log in as administrator

Go Settings > Administration

Select manage privileges:

Select access to Metadata Dictionary

By default this is also set to everyone.

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