Cloning and Synchronizing Oracle BI Requests and Dashboards Using CAF

Hi,
Cloning and Synchronizing Oracle BI Requests and Dashboards Using Content Accelerator Framework (CAF)
what is this and in what scenario we use it? Is it useful for webcatalog/rpd migration from one env to other?
Thanks
Jay.

Hi Jay,
CAF is a utility that is used in migration of logical part of RPD and catalog objects from source to target environments. There are bunch of OBIEE bloggers already blogged about this a while ago. Check this article out, it should provide the information you are looking for: ( http://debaatobiee.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/playing-with-cafobiee-content-accelerator-framework/ ).
FYI - If you are working in 11g environment, this tool (CAF) as far as I know is not supported. This tool was introduced by oracle few months before 11g came out which everyone thought would be big on revolutionizing the way migrations are done in OBIEE between environments.
-Amith.

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