OBIEE Repository migration

Hello Guys,
I ran into a strange problem today. I am using repository migration to migrate my objects from one repository to the other. There are some dummy presentation table that i created to nest some of the presentation tables under it.
After the repository migration strangely all my dummy folders are gone from the presentation layer. It will only display the presentation tables that have columns under it.
I end up manually creating those dummy presentation tables again after the migration.
Is this a known behaviour or am i missing some thing here? Please advice
Thanks
Prasanth Gurram

Its a known bug. What oracle says about it is, A presentation table should have at least one column, Then only it considers for migration.
In your case what you have to do is create a dummy column and remove read access for every one. So that we will overcome the problem in the rpd mgiration.
- Madan

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5.a. XLS export of big number columns looses precision, for example a number(38) column with all digits used.
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