how to rename the category

thumati.praveen · Post by **thumati.praveen** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:19 am

Hi,

Can any one tell me how to rename the Category?

Thanksinadvance
Pravin.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:32 am

It is not possible using the GUI. All you can do is to create the new category, move all items from the old category to the new category (you can use drag-and-drop), then delete the old category.

thumati.praveen · Post by **thumati.praveen** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:52 am

ray.wurlod wrote:It is not possible using the GUI. All you can do is to create the new category, move all items from the old category to the new category (you can use drag-and-drop), then delete the old category. ...

yes i know that way but i have so many number of inner categories.

can we do in unix ?

and one more thing i want to know, in data stage where the jobs will store i mean exact location of repository Path.

ThanksInadvance,
Pravin

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:19 am

CATEGORY is an indexed column in each of the Repository tables in which design-time metadata are stored. That is, because they are in a series of database tables, they are not accessible from UNIX. As you note, it would not be safe to issue an UPDATE statement against the table, because this would not pick up the sub-categories.

The exact location of the repository is the project directory on the server, at least until you move to version 8.0 or later. This will not help you - the categories are not subdirectories of anything.

kuand · Post by **kuand** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:57 am

Export the category to a file. Do a change all (be carefull) do the change on

Category "Category\\subCategory1\\subCategory2..and so on.."

Then import the file again. (make sure to have a backup)