Disconnecting the Experience Portal system from a shared external database

About this task

When you disconnect the Experience Portal system from a shared external database, the system scheduler begins saving all report data, that are currently on all the MPPs in that system, into the local Experience Portal database.

After you disconnect the system, users can generate reports that include the current data that resided on the MPPs along with any older data that previously existed in the local database. However, they cannot include any data that resides in the external database.

	Note:
	The amount of data available on each MPP depends on the settings for the fields in the Record Handling on MPP group on the MPP Settings page.

Procedure

Log on to the EPM web interface by using an account with the Administration user role.
On the EPM navigation pane, click System Configuration > EPM Servers.
On the EPM Servers page, click Data Storage Settings.
On the Data Storage Settings page, in the Report Database group, select Local.
Click Apply.

Result

Experience Portal records all the data in the local Experience Portal database from this point forward.

However, it does not delete any data from the external database. If you reconnect the system later, users can once again access the old data unless it has been purged.