Till in OBIEE
11.1.1.6.0 we are limited to nest the folders only at 2 levels. This
limitation has been fixed in OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 with a nice feature.
To nest the
presentation folders, login to OBIEE RPD and look at presentation layer. Here
select a presentation table which you want to see as parent folder. Double
click on that Presentation Table and now you will see a properties window with
multiple tabs.
Among those tabs we
can use the Child Presentation Tables tab in the Presentation Table dialog to
designate child presentation tables. You designate child presentation tables to
give the appearance of nested folders in Answers and BI Composer. You can add
multiple layers of nesting using this method.
e.g.: Achieving
Nested Folders in Answers
I would like to nest
the presentation folders like this.
To structure the
Presentation Tables/folders navigate and click on the RPD objects in sequence
as shown in below screenshot.
If you did this in
online mode, Reload Files and Metadata from presentation server Administration
page. Otherwise after successful OBI services restarts you will see the
presentation catalog in Subject area like this.
Note that the folders
only appear to be nested – they are not actually nested in terms of drill-down,
and the qualified names of the objects remain the same. In addition, the
Presentation layer in the Administration Tool does not display the nesting; the
nesting only appears in Answers and BI Composer. This feature only works for
presentation tables, and not for other Presentation layer objects.
When you run a
consistency check, the Consistency Check Manager detects any circularity in
parent-child presentation table assignment. It also detects and reports project
definitions that include child presentation tables without parent presentation
tables.
In previous releases,
repository developers could achieve one level of nesting by adding a hyphen at
the beginning of a presentation table name, or by adding an arrow (->) at
the beginning of the presentation table description. This method is now deprecated
for this release and will be removed in a future release.
If you previously used
hyphens at the beginning of presentation table names or arrows at the beginning
of presentation table descriptions to achieve nesting, it is recommended that
you run the Upgrade Presentation Foldering utility to convert your metadata to
the new structure.
