Comments on: Simple Version Control for OBIEE using Subversion, VisualSVN Server and TortoiseSVN

By: Mamta

Mamta — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:03:56 +0000

Hi Mark,

RPD is not recongnised as binary file in SVN.IF there are any conflicts,how to resolve them?

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:06:32 +0000

See my latest blog for a way to get compare and merge rpd files from tortoiseSVN.

navi-obiee.blogspot.com

By: swetha

swetha — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:09:46 +0000

Hi Mark,

We have our webcatalog on one linux server and subversion on another server. I have master copy of webcat in subversion and loaded it into my local system. Is it possible to make changes in reports (offline) in local system and upload it to subversion.Is there way to get online webcat changes into subversion directory

Your help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Swetha

By: Mark Rittman

Mark Rittman — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:25:50 +0000

Kamlesh

Not that I am aware of. Oracle must internally have some sort of system for when they are developing the RPD for the BI Apps, but nothing has been released externally. Most clients I know use some variation on the Subversion approach outlined in this article.

regards, Mark

By: kamlesh

kamlesh — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:29:48 +0000

Hi Mark,

is there any new tool from Oracle which integrates in OBIEE to track/migrate for Version control as well to track the migration of objects ?

thanks,
Kamlesh

By: Mariano

Mariano — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:20:44 +0000

Thanks for this article, it’s great for starters.

By: Pete Finnigan

Pete Finnigan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:02:39 +0000

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the great article, I have a few people I know I can point to it straight away. I get asked similar questions regarding sourcfe control but for security configurations in the database and for key database config files. I have suggested Visual SVN Server for some time now and also Tortoise. I also looked at the add-in for Visual Studio for our own internal development (from the same people as the free server). Nice article.

cheers

Pete

By: Sid

Sid — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:52:22 +0000

Mark,
Forgot to say that this is a beautiful article. Keep up the good work, learned a lot from you.

By: Sid

Sid — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:50:46 +0000

Mark,
Actually there are advantages to Mithia’s suggestions. If you store the textual version of the repository (the UDML version through the conversion utility or copy) into the repository then you can compare two versions of the repository in text mode and you can see the names of the rpd objects added even if one does not know the UDML (who knows anyway?). SVN (or any other source code control tool like PVCS) are not very sophisticated in merging changes in complex scenarios and therefore it is not correct to depend on the merge process.
Adding the files to SVN is also beneficial in the sense that deployment can be automated through the scripts.

By: John Minkjan

John Minkjan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:46:21 +0000

Mark,

Just to add to your list:
the S_ and SK_ directorys you are customizing.

regards John