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Getting Started with Warehouse Builder

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to do the following:

• Log in to the Design Center client

• Navigate the user interface

• Create, open, navigate, and delete a project


Lesson Agenda

• Overview of the Design Center– Dockable panels– Projects Navigator, Locations Navigator, Globals Navigator– Structure Panel, Property Inspector, Object Editors,

Graphical Navigator– Help Menu– Control Center Manager

• OWB Projects– Objects within a project– Objects within an Oracle module

• Locations Navigator and Globals Navigator

• Creating and deleting a project

• Setting project preferences


Logging In to OWB Design Center

Run owb.sh located in the [ORACLE_HOME]/owb/bin/ folder to start the Design Center.


OWB 11.2 Uses the Oracle IDE Interface

The standard Oracle IDE user interface for Oracle products


Design Center: Start Page

Navigate back and forth, print the content, change font size, or find specific content using these toolbar icons.

Each of the tabs opens a new page with many related links that point to useful content on OWB Help Center.

Some more documentation and external resources


Design Center: Dockable Panels

ComponentPalette

PropertyInspector

MappingEditor

GraphicalNavigator

StructurePanel

NavigatorPanel

F1 context sensitive help enables you to get help on the current panel.

If you open multiple editors, each opens in a new tab


Projects Navigator, Locations Navigator, and Globals Panel

Projects Navigator: Holds all project organized metadata (also known as your design).

Locations Navigator: Holds all information about physical locations and how these are managed in control centers

Globals: Holds all objects that are shared among users across the workspace. It holds prebuilt content, and you can create your own content for sharing across projects.


Structure Panel

Structure Panel shows object's structure details dynamically as you select objects in the Projects Navigator. You can even view the details of the operators that are included in a mapping.


Structure Panel Versus Object Editor

StructurePanel

Object Editor

Multiple object editor tabs open as you double-click objects in the Projects Navigator.

Click the tabs to view, define, and configure the object structure. For example, click the Indexes tab to add indexes on the table or the Partitions tab to define or configure the partitions.


Property Inspector

The new Property Inspector panel shows all the properties of the selected object in a single place.


Graphical Navigator

• Is a graphical scratch pad

• Is an empty space on which you can drop your object to show it with structurally related objects


Graphical Navigator

Graphical Navigator allows multiple objects to be defined in a single graphical interface.


Advanced Find

• Searches for objects in the selected panel (Projects navigator tree, Mapping editor, Process flow editor, structure panel, and so on)

• Supports search by using wildcard characters and pattern-matching by using regular expressions


Advanced Find

• Searches for objects in the selected panel (Navigator Tree, editor canvas, or Structure Panel)

• Supports search by using wildcard characters and pattern-matching by using regular expressions


Help Menu and the OWB Help Center

Help Center


Help Menu and the OWB Help Center

Session Properties

About


Managing Deployment with the Control Center Manager

Control Center Manager is the GUI where you view and manage all aspects of object deployment and execution of processes and mappings


Quiz

From the following list, select the panel you will use to view and set the current object's properties:

a. Graphical Navigator

b. Property Inspector panel


Quiz

You use the Control Center Manager to view and manage all aspects of object deployment and execution of processes and mappings.

a. True

b. False


Lesson Agenda

• Overview of the Design Center– Dockable panels– Projects Navigator, Locations Navigator, Globals Navigator– Structure Panel, Property Inspector, Object Editors,

Graphical Navigator– Help Menu– Control Center Manager

• OWB Projects– Objects within a project– Objects within an Oracle module





Projects

A project is the highest-level object in Warehouse Builder.

Source module

Mapping

Transformations

Mapping

Transformations

Warehousemodule-Sales

Project A

Project B

Warehousemodule-Finance

Data Mart

Data Mart

Source module


Objects in a Project

Applications

Oracle Modules

Files Module

Data Watch and Repair

Non-Oracle Database Modules

Template Mappings


Objects Within a Project

Data Profile and Data Rules

Pluggable Mappings Modules

Process Flow Module and Packages



OBI EE and OBI SE Modules

Schedules

User-Defined Modules

Application Servers



Experts

Configurations

Collections


Objects Within an Oracle Module

Mappings

Dimensions

Cubes

Tables


Objects Within a Module

External Tables

Views and Materialized Views

Sequences


Objects Within a Module

Transformations

Data Auditors

User Defined Types

Queues


• Foldering provides the ability to create and maintain a hierarchy of nested user folders inside the OWB project.

• You can create folders within:– Oracle Database modules and non-Oracle Database

modules– Process flow modules– Pluggable Mapping Folders node– Template Mappings node– Oracle E-Business Suite application modules, PeopleSoft

application modules, and Siebel modules

Organizing Metadata Using Foldering


For example, you can right-click an Oracle module and select New to create a new user folder.




You can import objects directly into a user folder. Right-click the folder and select the Import option. Objects must be copy-pasted from one folder to another if you want to organize after import.


Lesson Agenda

• Overview of the Design Center– Dockable panels– Projects Navigator, Locations Navigator, Globals Navigator– Structure Panel, Property Inspector, Object Editor Graphical

Navigator– Help Menu– Control Center Manager

• OWB Projects– Objects within a project– Object within an Oracle module





Locations, Connectors,and Control Centers

Oracle database locations

DB Connectors

Files location

Workflow location

OBI EE and OBI SE locations

Non-Oracle locations


Globals Navigator Objects

Public Application Servers

Public Transformations



Public Code Templates

Icons Sets

Public Data Rules



Security node seenonly by users grantedthe ADMINISTRATOR role

Public Experts

Configuration Templates


Lesson Agenda








Creating a Project


Deleting a Project

You cannot delete the current active or expanded project, or the only project in a repository.


Lesson Agenda








Setting Project Preferences


The Recent Logon field enables retention of logon information on a client machine.

Recent Logon Drop-Down List


You can set the "Maximum Logons Remembered" to a value greater than 1 to get a drop-down list of recent logons. If you set it to 0, no logon values are preserved. If you set it to 1, the behavior is similar to OWB 11g R1, in which case, the Recent Logon field itself is not displayed in the dialog box.

Enabling Recent Logon List


Scripting in Design Center

To get the OMB*Plus view in the Design Center, from View menu select OMB*Plus. To start it in a stand-alone, command-line mode, run [ORACLE_HOME]/owb/bin/unix/OMBPlus.sh


Quiz

In Globals Navigator, the Security node is available to both the workspace users and owners.

a. True

b. False


Quiz

Which one from the following is a flexible, high-level command-line scripting utility for Oracle Warehouse Builder:

a. SQL*Plus

b. OMB*Plus


Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to:

• Log in to the Design Center client

• Navigate the user interface

• Create, open, navigate, and delete a project


Practice 2-1 Overview: Examining the Design Center Interface

This practice covers the following topics:

• Logging in to Warehouse Builder Design Center client

• Examining the MY_PROJECT project

• Viewing project properties

• Navigating through the user interface

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