Managing Objects in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog

This chapter provides information about using the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition to store and managing business intelligence objects. It describes how to search for objects, work with favorites, assign permissions to objects, assign or take ownership of objects, and archive objects.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• "What is the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog?"

• "Who Uses the Catalog?"

• "How Will Hidden Dashboards Created in Previous Versions be Upgraded?"

• "Saving Business Intelligence Objects"

• "How Can I Search for Objects?"

• "Searching for Objects in the Catalog"

• "What Results are Returned from a Full-Text Catalog Search?"

• "Object-Specific Tasks"

• "What Are Favorites?"

• "Adding Objects to Favorites"

• "Accessing Favorite Objects"

• "Organizing Favorites"

• "Removing Objects From Favorites"

• "Exporting Analyses, KPIs, and Analysis Prompts Data"

• "Accessing Properties"

• "Levels of Oracle BI EE Security"

• "What Are Permissions?"

• "How Are an Object's Permission Assigned?"

• "Access Control Lists and Permissions"

• "Permission Definitions"

• "Permissions Available by Object Type"

• "Recommendations for Setting Permissions"

• "Assigning Permissions"

• "Who Owns an Object?"

• "Assigning Ownership of Objects"

• "Taking Ownership of Objects"

• "What is Archiving?"

• "Archiving Objects"