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Esri Business Analyst Server Repository

Business Analyst Server uses Repository as its storage structure. The Repository supports persistent storage of analyses and reports, and stores data in a hierarchical structure:

Two types of repository are supported:

The figure below shows the Repository structure.

Every project contains 15 folders to store folder items. Three of them—Models Calibrations, Modeling Results, and Project Subsets—are not used in the current version of the Business Analyst Server.

The Repository contains items of the following types:

Repository items are usually created as an output from a Business Analyst Server task. To create an item in the repository, you should specify in the parameters of task a esriFolderItem parameter providing information on the workspace, project, folder type, and folder item name. To create a report item, you should also specify the GetReport value in the TaskOutputType[] parameter of the task.

If a folder item to create already exists, it will be overwritten in the case of the file-based repository. For the ArcSDE-based repository, an attempt to overwrite an existing item leads to error.

You need not retrieve an item from the Repository in order to use it in input parameters of a Business Analyst Server task. Simply specify the esriFolderItem value for the Item property of the DataLayer, PointLayer, ProfileData, TableData, or TargetGroupData type instance.