Copy BW Web Templates

Question

Hi BW experts,
After processing an upgrade to BW 7.0 on our TST system, we wish to copy all the exist web templates in the system.
The copy operation purpose is to save a copy of all reports, in case the migration process (running for the reports which will be open in the new BEx tools) will fail.
Does someone can provide me the functionality which should be taken for the web templates copy operation?
Thanks in advance,
Shani Bashkin
P.S. - The required copy functionality should work for all the web templates in the system at once (I know the "save as..." option in the WAD, but it's a sisyphean work)

Answer 1

You can mass copy the template with
Program - RS_TEMPLATE_MASS_ALTER_70   nw2004s
Prgoram - RS_TEMPLATE_MASS_ALTER  3.x
<b>Step 1: Backup</b>
a) To do this, execute the RS_TEMPLATE_MASS_ALTER_70 report.
b) First, select the quantity of the templates to be edited in the "Input" area.
c) Leave the "Filter" area empty.
d) In the "Operation" area, select the "no operation, just up/download)" radio button.
e) In addition, select the "Save to Filesystem" area as the "Output Destination", specify a path under which you want the sources to be saved. Note that the path must end with a path separator (on Windows: this is '\')!
f) Execute the report, confirm the selection and the subsequent list with "Execute operation on selection" in each case.
g) The sources of the selected templates or Reusable Web items are written to the file system. This can be your backup.
<b>Step 2: Manipulation and download</b>
a) Then, execute the report again.
b) In the input template, select the same objects as for the download.
c) The filter area remains empty.
d) In the "Operation" area, select the "XSLT transformation" radio button, specify the name of the XSLT transformation in the first field, and enter any possible parameters (usually none).
e) In the "Output Destination" area, enter "Save to Filesystem" and a path name (that also must end with '\'). The path name must be different from the one specified before, otherwise your backup will be overwritten.
f) Execute the report and confirm the warnings in each case.
<b>Step 3: Check the result</b>
a) Now check the sources of the downloaded and manipulated templates and reusable Web items in the file system.
b) Compare with the backup-sources in the other directory
You may wish to check the OSS below -
Note 710112 - BW Web template mass maintenance
Program RS_TEMPLATE_MAINTAIN can be used for single template copy.
As a part of sanity check you might want to try it out in SBOX or Dev for ramifications if any ..
Hope it Helps
Chetan
@CP..