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how to rename the category

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:19 am
by thumati.praveen
Hi,

Can any one tell me how to rename the Category?

Thanksinadvance
Pravin.

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:32 am
by ray.wurlod
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.

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:52 am
by thumati.praveen
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

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:19 am
by ray.wurlod
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.

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:57 am
by kuand
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)