System wide default setting of column properties

Hi
How could I get rid of 'system-wide default' properties which got set to the column properties? (BISE1 10.1.3.2.1 Answers....criteria)
Thanks and Regards,
Charudatta

ASCII and thou shall be ANSI ;-)
http://siebel-essentials.blogspot.com/2008/08/remove-system-wide-default-settings-in.html
Ok, that was a lame joke , I admit.
Cheers,
C.

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I've tried to save my custom default again or reset to column-default but with no results: the column heading is still empty.
How can I fix this problem?
thanks
Luc

Hello,
What OBI version are you using?
Enter some other custom name for the column (e.g. same as default one) and save it as system-wide. I guess, you have already tried, but...
1. Stop Presentation Services.
2. Go under web catalog in the file system and locate folder \root\system\metadata. This folder contains files storing subject area attributes, including system-wide settings. I the folder find 2 files named similar as the subject area which column you have modified (name will be in lowercase, spaces replaced with +). For example, for "SA System" subject area these files are named as "sa+system" and "sa+system.atr".
3. Backup these 2 files you have found (better whole presentation catalog).
4. Try one of the options:
Option 1: If you have another version of these files (in the backup or other environments) - try to replace them. There is a risk you will loose some other column settings (or inherit new).
Option 2: Modify the file without extension (it contains XML code inside): locate the string similar to your column name. Remove whole section ONLY for the column you have found between tags <sawsavedformat:columnSavedFormat and </sawsavedformat:columnSavedFormat>.
Below is sample code for column originally named as "Pager" under "User" folder in "SA System" subject area.
<sawsavedformat:metadata xmlns:sawsavedformat="com.siebel.analytics.web/savedformat/v1.1">
<sawsavedformat:columnSavedFormats>
<sawsavedformat:columnSavedFormat xmlns:saw="com.siebel.analytics.web/report/v1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="sawsavedformat:regularColumnSavedFormat" columnName=""SA System"."User"."Pager"">
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5. Restart presentation services.
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here what is the scope of the system ?
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Saving Your Oracle BI Answers Column Property
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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10415_01/doc/bi.1013/b31767.pdf

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Hi mano,
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You cant do at a time for all columns .....manually you should do for each and every column.
UPDATED POST
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you cant do for all columns at a time.....you can do for a single column system wide default.
hope helps you.
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KK
Edited by: Kranthi.K on Jun 21, 2011 3:12 AM

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Hi:
I hope you know a little more about this than I do:
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