Creating a Metadata Transfer Profile

OneData uses profiles to perform any action with metadata, such as importing, creating, or transferring data to another repository. Profiles define all the information about the action that OneData needs.

Familiarize yourself with metadata constraints and restrictions before beginning this procedure. For more information about rules and constraints with transferring metadata, see Transferring and Importing Metadata.

Note: Transfer Metadata does not support metadata localization tables. Therefore, manually transfer metadata tables OD_MD_LOCALE and OD_MD_MDATA_LCLZTN from the source to the destination system.

1. On the Menu toolbar, click Administer > Metadata > Transfer Metadata or click Administer > Metadata > Import Metadata, according to which type of profile you want to create.

a. Complete the profile name and description.

b. For transfer metadata profiles, select the profile type:

Create Metadata File: Creates a metadata file in XML format when executed. This file can be imported into any repository.

Direct Transfer: Transfers metadata directly to the selected repository.

c. Select the repository and project.

For import profiles: Select the project into which the metadata should be copied. (The repository creates a metadata file in XML format when executed. This file can be imported into any repository.

For direct transfer profiles: Select the destination repository and destination project into which the data should be copied. The Project field is only available if projects are enabled in the system properties.

d. For import metadata profiles, click Browse to select the file to import.

e. For transfer metadata profiles, narrow the selectable objects by entering date ranges during which the objects were created. This is an optional filter and only applies if the Select All objects option is used for one or more object types.

Objects Created From: Specify the beginning date range that objects were created.

Objects Created Till: Specify the ending date range during which objects were created.

f. Select the logging options:

Display logs on screen: Publishes logs to the screen.

Log exceptions only: Creates a log file only when errors occur. Exceptions include minor transfer issues that do not affect the overall result of the metadata transfer.

g. Select the objects that you want to add to the profile. For information about the object types and object dependencies, see Transferring and Importing Metadata.

Click Select All to select all defined objects of the selected type.

Select specific objects by clicking Select. Select each object to add to the profile and click Set Values.

To remove selected objects, click Show Selected Values, select the objects that you want to remove and click Remove Values.