6.5.5 Oracle Essbase - Migrating Mappings to Different Versions of the Same Reporting Framework

Reporting frameworks are updated from time to time.  New versions of reporting frameworks may contain modified tables (such as new rows or columns), or entire new tables.

When a new framework is released, a new document must be created with the new framework which will not contain any data mappings.  It is however possible to migrate mappings from documents based on old reporting frameworks so that you only need to modify or add mappings where appropriate.

To migrate mappings from documents based on older reporting frameworks, click Setup -> Migrate -> Connections and Mappings:

Report Authority will migrate the connection as well as all table mappings for all data points that still exist in the new reporting framework.  Once migrated, you can search for cells which do not contain any mappings using the :

This will list all unmapped data objects in the Messages panel.