OBIEE mandatory description field

A lot of report builders make META DATA a Friday afternoon project. Recently there was a question on the OTN forum how you could make this mandatory.

You can do this editing the opensavedlg.js, saw.catalog.BrowserDialogViewer.prototype.updateModel part

saw.catalog.BrowserDialogViewer.prototype.updateModel = function () {
        var b = this.model;
		if (this.descEdit.value.length<6)
		{
		  alert("Enter a valid Description");		  
		  this.descEdit.value = "DESC:";
		}
		else
 		{
                   b.description = this.descEdit.value;
		};

After the edit redeploy.

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