Sharing departed users Discoverer 10g Workbooks

How can Discoverer 10g Workbooks be shared if you do not have access to the workbooks creator's id? Can this be done using Oracle Discoverer Admin tool? If so how?
Senario
User A Creates Workbooks
User A Shares Workbooks
User A Leaves the organization.
User A's id is locked.
User B is designated user As replacement.
How can User B assume ownership of user A's workbooks?
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user474347

Hi,
You can either update the workbook ownership in the EUL5_DOCUMENTS table. This is dangerous because updateing the EUL tables can easily corrupt your EUL.
The safer option is to export User As workbooks using Disco Admin and then import them when connected as UserB using the take ownership of workbooks option on the import.
Hope that helps,
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