Exporting Build Options or Build Option Status

You can export build options or build option status on the Component Export page. Exporting build option status is an effective way to toggle build options on or off within another environment. For example, you can use this feature to deploy a production application with a hidden feature.

To accomplish this, you associate the components of the hidden feature with a build option having the status of EXCLUDE. After deployment, you can enable the hidden feature by changing the status of the build option to INCLUDE and then exporting the Build Option Status.

Once you apply the Build Options Status to the production instance, the new feature appears.

To export build options or build option status:

1. Navigate to the Component Export page:

   1. On the Workspace home page, click the Application Builder icon.

   2. Select an application.

   3. Click Shared Components.

   4. From the Tasks list, click Component Export.

      The Component Export page appears.

2. Select the build options to be exported:

   1. Click the Components tab and select the build options to be exported.

   2. Click Add to Export.

3. Select Build Option Status to be exported:

   1. Click the Build Options Status tab and select the build options to be exported.

   2. Click Add to Export.

4. Click Next.

5. On Components to Export:

   1. From File Format, select how rows in the export file will be formatted:

      • Choose UNIX to have the resulting file contain rows delimited by line feeds.

      • Choose DOS to have the resulting file contain rows delimited by carriage returns and line feeds.

   2. Use the As of field to export a page as it was previously defined. Specify the number of minutes in the field provided.

      This utility uses the DBMS_FLASHBACK package. Because the timestamp to System Change Number (SCN) mapping is refreshed approximately every five minutes, you may have to wait that amount of time to locate the version for which you are looking. The time undo information is retained and influenced by the startup parameter UNDO_RETENTION (the default is three hours). However, this only influences the size of the undo tablespace. While two databases may have the same UNDO_RETENTION parameter, you are able to go back further in time on a database with fewer transactions because it is not filling the undo tablespace, forcing older data to be archived.

   3. Click Export Components.