Can workbook owned by another user be deleted from the database

Question

Hello all,
We are wanting to know if a workbook can be deleted from the database by someone other than the owner. We have a user that was once with the organization that created and uploaded several Discoverer reports to the database. However, they are no longer with the organization. If a change needs to be made to one of their reports, we can download a copy and modify it. However, when you upload the report and keep the same name, it creates a copy of the report in the database but now owned being by the new user. When users using Viewer retrieve a list of reports from the database, they are seing two reports with the same name in the listing, but owned by different people. We could always rename the new report. However, we would like to 'clean up' the production database by purging any obsolete or older verision reports regardless of who they are owned by.
Thanks in advance for any input

Answer 1

Hi,
Yes we can do this, to the best of my knowledge here is my input: There are two ways to do this
1) a) If that workbook has been shared with your id thne login as you in Discoverer Plus then open workbook and using SAVE AS and save the workbook and it wil save under your id.
b) follow the below command to delete the workbook owned by old user
2 )-->Login as EUL user (ex: EUL10_US) in Discoverer Administrator and export the workbook owned by the owner (no longer exist in the company: abc.workbookname) and save in your local drive
-->Login as new user in Administrator and import the workbook from the local drive
-->using below command delete the workbook owned by old user (*abc.workbookname*) by running at command prompt.
dis51adm.exe /connect eul10_us/xxxxx@DBname /delete /workbook "abc.workbookname" /eul eul10_us /log C:\oracle\BIToolsHome_1\bin\Delete_wb_oatr.log
Now you will have only one copy of the workbook in the database.
hope this helps you.
--skat