My working approach:

Here is what I do for the rest of the steps. I will firstly undeploy the current bipublisher
application in enterprise manager and then duplicate a copy of existing xmlpserver.ear with the
new name btmreport.ear. Later I modified a few files in btmreport.ear and deploy btmreport.ear
with the same name bipublisher under the same target. (This involves a few tricks I found out
during the trials and errors. I would explain them in the corresponding steps)

Step 1. Undeploy the current bipublisher application.

Access enterprise manger as below. By default you could access the link: http://Domain-
Name:7001/em

Now on the navigation panel find bipublisher and click on Undeploy as below.

Continue the undeployment.

If you run into the same error with me as below, it means the configuration of bifoundation has
been locked and you need to go to applicaiton console to release the configuration.

How to release the configuration? Simple! Go to application console. By default you access the
link: http://Domain-Name:7001/console

Once login, you should be able to see that there are changes that need to be taken actions in order
to unlock the configure on bifoundation domain. I have been trying out other deployments on
console. So I just wanted to undo the changes to release the configuration.
After this change, I could proceed on undeploying the application back to enterprise manager.

Now we would need to duplicate a copy from xmlpserver.ear with the name btmreport.ear. And
modify two files within the ear file.
xmlpserver.ear location: <BI_middleware_home>/Oracle_BI1/bifoundation/jee/xmlpserver.ear

Now duplicate another ear under the same location:

<BI_middleware_home>/Oracle_BI1/bifoundation/jee/btmreport.ear

There are two files to be modified in btmreport.ear:

(MODIFY 1)btmreport.ear\META-INF\application.xml

Change From Change To

<display-name>xmlpserver</display-name> <display-name>btmreport</display-name>
<context-root>xmlpserver</context-root> <context-root>btmreport</context-root>

(MODIFY 2)btmreport.ear\xmlpserver.war\WEB-INF\weblogic.xml

Change From Change To

<cookie-path>/xmlpserver</cookie-path> <cookie-path>/btmreport</cookie-path>
<context-root>xmlpserver</context-root> <context-root>btmreport</context-root>

The reason for changes of these two files could be related to the oracle document : Read More on
Web Applications from Oracle Doc

Step 2 Deploy the application under the same name bipublisher. Go to enterprise
manager and deploy the application as below:
Input the location of the btmreport.ear. (This could be found in the previous step)

Deploy the application under the same target bi_cluster -> bi_server1
Now we come to the deployment page.

The trick here is to put the name as bipublisher. That is why we have to undeploy
bipublisher application firstly. Since it will not allow the same application name being created
twice. And the consequence of not using bipulisher as the application deployment name is that
you would not be able to have a complete xmlpserver login page(It showed as a blank blue
page). I would assume in the BIP software, it is hardcoded somewhere to use bipulisher as the
name.
Wait until the deployment finishes successfully, and then validate the new context root(In our
case, it should be btmreport)

In order to validate the link, we could go back to application console and take a look at the new
deployment details:
Go under the configuration of the deployment btmreport and go to testing to view all the links:

(By default the xmlpserver port should be 9704. In my envrionment, I set it to 9500)
 Anyone knows how to keep xmlpserver undeployed but deploy a new btmreport
application under bipublisher?

[OBIEE Solution]Deployment of OBIEE 11G

BI Publisher reports
April 2, 2012 ~ 15 Comments

Before we start discussing about the method on deploying OBIEE

11G BIP reports. Let us firstly look back to the 10g deployment of
BIP reports. For example, we have two servers A and B. And we are
trying to deploy the BIPreports under the xmlpserver repository
on Server A to Server B.

Usually on 10g BIP, the default location of xmlpserver respository

looks like below:

<OracleBI_Home>/xmlp/Reports

So basically for a full deployment of the example we mentioned

above. We could simply copy the BIPreports folder from the above
location on Server A to Server B and then restart the BIP service.
After that you could be able to see the BIPreports is deployed on to
the new server and you could start view/edit the reports by login to
xmlpserver.

However on OBIEE 11g, BI Publisher reports are integrated into

the BI answers catalog, which means if you want to see the actual
catalog you have to go through BI Answers. It still maintain an
xmlpserver repository with the location:

<middleware_home>/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_
domain/config/bipublisher/repository/Reports

We might think of using the same methodology to deploy the OBIEE

11g BI Publisher reports by just copying the reports to the above
location. And upgrade the BIP catalog to BI Answers catalog.This
would work if you upgrade the 10g reports to 11g reports and then
deploy them to the folder above.
What you need to do next is to go to login to analytics.On the upper
right corner, click Administration link:

Then on the next page, click Manage BI Publisher on the panel.

Click Server Configuration on the Administration Page.

 On the next page click the button Upload to BI Presentation
Catalog. And then click Apply.
 In this case you would be able to see the new folder and the
reports underneath it once you login to analytics. Refer to previous
blog on how to migrate 10g BIP reports to 11g

But this method didnt solve the original question that if we want
to get the reports from an 11g server and deploy them to another
11g server.We need to know after we upload the xmlpserver
repository to BI Presentation Catalog. What happened?

Well, it reformats the BIP repository to an BI Presentation Catalog

folder entry. Say the folder BIPreports would be reformatted to
folder BIPreports/ and BIPreports.atr. The reports under the
original folder are also reformatted. The most obvious detection is
by adding a atr file for each report and folder and sometime
renaming some of the reports.The location of the BI Answers catalog
is :
 <middleware_home>/instances/instance1/bifoundation/Or
acleBIPresentationServicesComponent/coreapplication_obips
1/catalog/SampleAppLite/root/shared

The problem is that you cound not simply copy the uploaded BIP
reports folder to the same location on to another server. The
presenation service would not recognize the folder as what 10g
xmlpserver would do. And also once you have modified the
uploaded reports from presentation service, the changes go directly
to the catalog not the xmlpserver repository. And there is no way to
reverse the BI Answers publisher reports back to the xmlpserver
publisher reports having the changes we just made.

In order to solve the problem, there are two ways available both
with the help of presentation service. On OBIEE 11G, oracle tends to
put more heavy usage on the frontend operation instead of backend
manipulation.Good or bad? You tell me.

Method 1.

If you want to deploy a whole folder of BIP reports from OBIEE 11g
Server A to B, simply login to analytics on Server A.

Click Catalog:
 On the left panel, expand shared folders and choose the
perticular report folder that you want to deploy to Server B. For
example, I would do Sample2. Click on the folder and then click
Archive
 Now depends on if you want to remain the permissions and
timestamps. Check the boxes and click ok.
 Click Save. Then this archived file contains all the reports under
Sample2 and is ready to be deployed to Server B.
 Login to analytics of Server B. And go to catalog as the step
above.Choose the folder where you would like to deploy the reports.
In this case, I would choose shared folder. And then click
unarchive.

At the pop-up window. Choose the Sample2.catalog and then

input the neccessary parameters.Click OK

Now Sample2 is showed under the shared folder and all reports are
under it.
 Method 2.

The second methodology for deployment of BIP reports is that you

could simply download and upload a single report. This is useful
when you are not deploying too many reports.

Instead of login to analyitcs, this time you need to login to

xmlpserver on Server A at:

http://domain_name_onServerA:9704/xmlpserver

Step 1.Click Catalog on the right corner to traverse down to the

reports.

Step 2. Navigate to the report you want to move to another server.

Click on More->Download
You have to download the data model correspondingly as well like
below:
Now the files that we have just downloaded are looking like this:

Balance Letter.xdoz

Balance Letter Datamodel.xdmz

Step 3. Go to the Server B and upload the files. Login to the

following link:

http://domain_name_onServerB:9704/xmlpserver

Go to catalog and navigate to the folder you would like to upload to.

At the left corner, click upload

Upload the two files we just downloaded to Server B and remember
to associate the template with the data model.