How to document your star-schemas and dashboards?

Hello practitioners,
We are new to OBIEE and started some weeks ago. We are a two-men team. One guy doing all the data design and the other for everything around Answers.
So it happens regularly that the other guy has to ask the one guy, about the exact definition and meaning of data-fields, he wants to use in Answers.
Being a real programmer the one guy only needs a proper, self-explainary field name as documentation, of course (or so he thought).
Question:
What tools and methods do you use to document the star-schemas and dashboards?
Being the other guy, it is important, that I pick the correct fields, while on the other hand I do not want to disect a dashboard I built a while back, everytime somebody wants something simular, just to figure out what I actually did, back then...
Thank you for your help
Turalf
Edited by: Turalf on Mar 24, 2010 12:03 PM

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Have you looked at the OBIEE Metadata Dictionary ? A method to allow answers users to gain access to column definitions, and you can view the mapping from Presentation, through BMM to Physical layer.
Im pretty sure you can expose comments from the RPD into this also.
http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2008/12/obiee-metadata-dictionary.html
Maybe you could look at the ODI - OBIEE data lineage also, it provides "report to source" mapping info :
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/fusion_middleware/ODI/OBI-ODI_Lineage/OBI-ODI_Lineage.htm
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