Friday, August 5, 2016

Change default export path for BI Discoverer

Whenever user would like to export results of Discoverer report , report is saved to default export path which is taken from pref.txt. In order to change this parameter , set the value for DefaultExportPath from pref.txt file.

10g:$ORACLE_HOME/discoverer/util/pref.txt
11g:$MW_HOME/asinst_1/config/PreferenceServer/Discoverer_asinst_1/pref.txt

To save exported files to client's home default directory ,set DefaultExportPath to "". Otherwise you can set value like "c:\temp".

After changing value , applypreferences.sh or applypreferences.bat(Windows) is executed which is under following directories.

10g:$ORACLE_HOME/discoverer/util
11g:$MW_HOME/asinst_1/Discoverer/Discoverer_asinst_1/util