I already have a dedicated web server (Tomcat 7) for BusinessObjects BI 4.1 i.e. TomcatServer.
I installed a new BI 4.1 without Tomcat i.e. BIServer separately and I would like to use the dedicated web server i.e. TomcatServer.
How do I configure the newly installed BI 4.1 server to use the dedicated TomcatServer?
Hi,
How to create a read only admin in CMC? The read only admin should have access like other admins but only read privilages.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks,
Arun
Guys,
There is a need in my company to test a new software on a Sandbox. In our BOBJ landscape, we only have 2 systems (Dev and Prod). We now have the need to point our Dev(Q/A System) to the Sandbox, so we can completed the testing. What is the recommended approach?
1. Do we have to perform cloning our Business Objects Servers?
2. Can we just point our current BOBJ Dev(Q/A System) to the Sandbox
3. Or we have no choice other than to create a totally new system installation
Please have in mind that this exercise is just to test a software in a Sandbox. After the testing, there is no use anymore. Please help advise on the best practice.
Thanks,
Timi Jones
HI Team ,
How to get Modified Date column avaiable for users in BI Launchpad as in CMC?
Thank you
Hi All,
Need help to grant connection right to user
to be able edit connection of a universe in the universe design tool.
I created an access level and added included right of the system- connection-edit-new- modify
and gave users the right to edit universe connection in UDT, but is not working.
Still they cant edit connection- is grayed out
Thanks
PC
I've got a 2 node CMS Cluster running on VM. I see two options documented for mounting the FRS but I want to consider a third.
The two options above are both sound but they have some cons that make replicating to my DRP site either difficult or expensive. So I'm considering a third VM guest that has a direct SAN mount, let's say an E: Drive. Then, I create a Windows FileShare off of that drive that can be mounted to my CMS Servers as \\VMFileServer\Filestore. Like NAS, this could be mounted Active and Passive on the two nodes.
Whether I use NAS or Windows Fileshare, the I/O still has to travel over the network to the SAN. Is there any discernible latency between the two? Is this even supported by SAP? Please challenge this and let me know your thoughts.
Why do it? If the FRS is hosted on a separate VM guest that is then shared to the CMS Servers, all of my VM's will replicate together to our DR site inherently with the whole VM Farm. Seems nice and clean but I really don't know what to think about how that I/O will perform or any other gotchas to consider. If I was on Linux, this would be the exporting host for my NFS. Same concept.
Hi All,
I am able to run the report from standard crystal reports. But after exporting the report to repository when i try to run it from CMC it is giving below error ...
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| Error in File ~tmp21488cb0e5bd3b3.rpt: Error in formula Back_Color: '// This conditional formatting formula must return one of the following Color Constants: ' This field name is not known. Details: errorKind |
Can anyone please help me out in this issue.
Thanks,
Subash
One of our customers has run into an issue that they have been unable to solve even though they have filed an SAP Support Ticket and it seems as though the support team is not really understanding their request.
The attached document has a detailed outline of the error along with screenshots however in summary they have set up error handling so that they users can understand what the error is in the case of a failed procedure.
Crystal Reports receives these messages from Oracle and displays them correctly howeve when run from BI4, it only shows the error code and not the error message that they have defined.
The SAP support ticket number is #85374/2016
Does anyone know what can be done to resolve this issue? It would be much appreciated if you can look into this and provide some insight to help the customer.
Dear Guru's,
Would like to get clarified on the below after failing to get required information on net.
We are currently on SAP Netweaver 7.0 and looking to implement Business intellegence . I understand that the latest available version is BI 4.2
1.Is BI 4.2 compatible with BI 7.0 SP 31 ( PAM suggests-- BW 7.01 SPS 06+)
1.a. If the above is No, does BI 4.1 compatible ( PAM suggests-- BW 7.01 SPS 06+).
2. If the above is Yes, then may i know if there are any impact to BI 4.2 if we decide to upgrade our SAP Netweaver 7.0 to BW 7.3 or BW 7.4 ( Not HANA ) in future
Thank you .
Chanda.
Hello Guys,
I need to change the author of a document.
After some research and checking the JDK I used the code below to update the AUTHOR.
| Code |
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enterpriseSession = CrystalEnterprise.getSessionMgr().logon(username, password, cmsname, authType); infoStore = (IInfoStore)enterpriseSession.getService("", "InfoStore"); infoStoreStart = (IInfoStore)enterpriseSession.getService("", "InfoStore");
IInfoObjects reports = (IInfoObjects)infoStore.query("SELECT * FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_CUID LIKE '"+ request.getParameter("SI_CUID") +"'"); String oldowner = "";
for (Object o : reports) { IInfoObject iObject = (IInfoObject)o; oldowner = (String)iObject.properties().getProperty(CePropertyID.SI_AUTHOR).getValue();
// Change the owner iObject.properties().setProperty(CePropertyID.SI_AUTHOR, "Administrator"); out.print(iObject.getTitle() +" - "+ oldowner +"<br>");
}
out.println("Saving...<br>"); infoStore.commit(reports); out.println("Complete<br>");
enterpriseSession.logoff(); |
When I use the Query Builder to capture the information, the SI_AUTHOR property is set to the correct one, but when I open the WebI document the author displayed is the old one.
Do you know how do I force to update the document?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Hi Experts,
We have created a URL iview for Business intelligence.when we click on that iview it should display in separate tab with business intelligence URL. But it is not working as we expected i.e., When we click on business intelligence iview it is displaying in a separate window it is pointing to portal URL instead of business intelligence URL.
Your response will be appreciated.
Regards,
Devi
Hello,
The BI Launchpad is embedded as a tab in our SAP portal. When I open the BI Launchpad via the portal I briefly can see the top bar containing the Home/Documents tabs, Preferences link etc, then about 1/2 a second later it disappears completely dropping me into the Documents tab, albeit missing the tabs bar on the top of the screen. When I open the BI Launchpad via the direct link I have no problem seeing the Home/Documents tabs, preferences etc. I am on IE 10, Windows 7 SP1, and BI 4.1 SP02 (Version: 14.1.2.1121). According to the PAM documents for 4.1 this shouldn't be a problem as it is supported. I tested this with the latest version of firefox and it does not have the same problem, so that rules out security.
Anyone have an idea as to why this might be happening?
Thanks for looking,
Gary
Hi,
I am getting error(Attched) while executing macro to find out user details. I have downloded this macro from otherBOB forums.
I am not able to find the user on CMC so little bit surprise on that.
Please let me know how can I bypass it.
Regards
Hi
i have a Business Objects XI v3.1 .
When i try to add a report via CMS or Info view i get the screen where i chose my file.
Then i click the OK button and nothing happens.
I have restarted the SIA , tomcat and even the servers ( windows 2008 SP2).
Database ( MS Sql server) looks good.
Can anyone help here or give me hit for a knowledge base entry?
Thanks and regards Alexander
Hi,
I am facing the current situattion at a client's site :
- they have a BI4.1 server on a Unix platform.
- they have a couple of Excel files that we want to use as data sources for WebI reports
- we would like to have drill-up/drill-down capabilities in the reports, as well as filtered queries for good performances, and security implemented at row level in the reports.
for that we would like to create Universes from those Excel files, and build the WebI reports using those universes, instead of creating the reports directly from the excel sources.
The issue is that we cannot create an ODBC Data Source for those Excel files under Unix, it seems it only exists for Windows operated servers.
Has anyone ever faced such a case ?
What option do we have to answer our customer's needs ?
thanks for your help,
kind regards,
Christophe
Hello,
My environment :
Server A : BO BI 4.1 SP7, WinAD authentication
Server B : BO BI 4.1 SP7, WinAD authentication
Is it possible to promote personal folders and docs from A to B with "Promotions Management" ?
How ?
I've done many tests and have errors like :
Failure : Must create object under it's defined root folder
Failure : Parent Id referenced does not exist
Is it possible to keep the same ID ?
If not, what is the best way to copy personal folders from A to B ?
(I have 365 docs in 50 personal folders to handle)
Regards,
Stéphane.
Hi Experts,
Have a few questions regarding distributed deployment -
1) We are planning to have following deployment :
Server 1 & 2 - CMS & other core services
Server 3 & 4 - Webi processing services
Server 5 & 6 - Crystal, Dashboard, Explorer services
While doing custom installation, can you please let me know what should be exactly selected ?
Below is what I could think of. Please confirm if below is okay / else correct me -
Platform services (all services under that section) - Server 1 & 2 ONLY
Connectivity services - Servers 1, 2, 3, 4
Data Federator service - Servers 3,4 ONLY
Analysis Service - Servers 3,4 ONLY
Crystal services - Servers 5,6 ONLY
Webi services - Servers 3,4 ONLY
Dashboard services - Servers 5, 6 ONLY
Integration servers - ???
Administrator tools - ???
Developer tools - ???
Database access - ???
2) Also, what about Job servers, how do I distribute them across 6 servers ? what selection will have to be made ?
3) Once the custom installation is successfully completed on 6 servers -
a. will we have ONE APS server on all 6 servers OR only on servers 1,2,3,4 ?
b. because this was custom installation, can we still use System config wizard to split the APS ?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Do let me know in case of any queries.
Regards,
Monish
How to find-
Log file, input and output file location.
I am able to find the location from CMC-Place holders-%default ;ogin dir% but in that location log file not generated.
Any idea?
Hi,
We are facing an issue while installing a Patch update for SAP BI 4.1 SP6 (Client Tools), the patch update is Patch 3. Till installation of the BI4.1 SP6 we didn't face any issues. But when we start installing the Patch 3 update, the system started getting hang in between and not moving further to complete the installation. We have to force to stop this installation. Once we stop the installation, the whole of BI 4.1 gets uninstalled from the system.
I want to let you know that we are maintaining BO 3.1 client tools in parallel in the same system.
Can anybody help us to resolve this issue.
Regards,
Arun Krishnan G
Is it possible to write a query using Query Builder to find WebI reports that have custom query script?
What do you say, Mani?
Thanks,
Noel
