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Switch Universe Connections Dynamically

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Hello All,

 

We are on BO 4.1 SP6 and are looking for options to see if we can assign universe (.unv) connections dynamically to be read from a configuration file or table.

 

This is mainly to switch the BO reports to read from a backup/secondary database instance while ETL is loading data and to revert back to the primary database once all the updates have been applied. Hope is to automate the switching process seamlessly without manual work.

 

Any thoughts/suggestions are welcome.

 

Thanks for your time.

 

Regards.


Remapping a Webi Report using Java SDK in BO4.2 SP2

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Hello,

 

I am trying to Remap a Webi report using Java SDK in SAP BO 4.2 SP2.

Java version used is SDK 7 Update 45.

Also i am using Eclipse (Mars 2) IDE to develop.

 

I have used the following query and included all the requisite Jars, and Classes but i am getting several errors,

 

Can someone look into the Code and say if i am doing something Wrong here:

 

Part that is not Working is mentioned below:

 

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try{

 

ReportEngines boReportEngines = (ReportEngines) enterpriseSession.getService("ReportEngines");

ReportEngine boReportEngine = (ReportEngine) boReportEngines.getService(ReportEngines.ReportEngineType.WI_REPORT_ENGINE);

DocumentInstance boDocumentInstance = boReportEngine.openDocument(boReport.getID());

DataProvider boDataProvider = null;

 

 

// Now loop through all the dataproviders for the Webi report

 

 

for (int j=0; j<boDocumentInstance.getDataProviders().getCount(); j++)

{

  boDataProvider = boDocumentInstance.getDataProviders().getItem(j);

  String providerName = boDataProvider.getName();

  String univName = boDataProvider.getDataSource().getName();

 

 

//  Query for Production universes

 

 

  String query_Produniverse = "SELECT SI_NAME, SI_CUID, SI_SHORTNAME FROM CI_APPOBJECTS WHERE SI_Kind = 'Universe' AND SI_NAME='" + univName + "' and SI_TENANT_ID ="+tenantID +"and SI_PARENT_FOLDER ="+parentProdID;

 

 

  IInfoObjects boInfoObjects_universe = (IInfoObjects) infoStore.query(query_Produniverse);

 

//  Query for Test universes to be taken in case no prod universe is found

  String query_Testuniverse = "SELECT SI_NAME, SI_CUID, SI_SHORTNAME FROM CI_APPOBJECTS WHERE SI_Kind = 'Universe' AND SI_NAME='" + univName + "' and SI_TENANT_ID ="+tenantID +"and SI_PARENT_FOLDER ="+parentTestID;

 

  if (boInfoObjects_universe.size() > 0) {

 

  IUniverse boUniverse = (IUniverse) boInfoObjects_universe.get(0);

 

  String newUniverseId = "UnivCUID=" + boUniverse.getCUID() + ";UnivName=" + boUniverse.getShortName();

 

  boDocumentInstance.getDataProviders().changeDataSource(boDataProvider.getDataSource().getID(), newUniverseId, false);

 

  } else {

 

  boInfoObjects_universe = (IInfoObjects) infoStore.query(query_Testuniverse);

 

  IUniverse boUniverse = (IUniverse) boInfoObjects_universe.get(0);

 

  String newUniverseId = "UnivCUID=" + boUniverse.getCUID() + ";UnivName=" + boUniverse.getShortName();

 

  boDocumentInstance.getDataProviders().changeDataSource(boDataProvider.getDataSource().getID(), newUniverseId, false);

 

  }

}

if (universeChanged) {

boDocumentInstance.save();

}

boDocumentInstance.closeDocument();

} catch (Exception e) {

System.out.println("Error:" + e);

}

}

}

infoStore.commit(boInfoObjects);

}"

 

all parameters like tenantID, parentTestID, parentProdID have been initiallised and are retrived properly without any errors so i did not include the code for those Objects.

Where does SAP Live Office stores password on client machine

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Hi Experts,

 

In a process of installing SAP Live office plugin on the machine, because of the company IT policies and securities we need to provide the following information which we are unable to locate;

 

  1. Where does the Logon details (User name and password) gets stored in the client machine, where the plugin is installed. (We have observed that after providing the logon details while installing the Live office plugin, the details got stored and we do not need to provide the details every time we launch the plugin, even if we shut down the machine. Hence it should be getting saved some where)
  2. Does these details gets encrypted as well? If yes, what is the encryption method used for the same.

 

I have been using the plugin on one of the machine, however now this plugin needs to be installed on multiple machine machines for which we need this info.

 

We are using SAP BI 4.1 SP4 for Live Office.

 

Appreciate your help on this.

 

Thanks in advance

Kshitiz Gupta

Repository Documentor

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Hello All,

 

Does anyone have any idea about the Repository Documenter(Excel Sheet) available for SAP Business Objects which queries the CMS and lists all the information of the Repository objects including Universe, their folder locations, connection information , users, list of reports etc?

I remember working on it in my previous project but not sure where to find the file. The excel requires CMS name before refreshing it.

Please let me know in case any one has any download link for the same or have any relevant information.

 

Regards

Vaibhav

BO Home Page Modification

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Hi Team,

 

Is it possible to modify the view settings of My Recently Viewed documents or My Recently Run documents modules in newly created work-space? I can't see any option to change the size of recent documents. By default, it's showing 10. Now, I want to increase the size of the last viewed/run documents. Please help me how I can proceed?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

regards,
Sreenivasulureddy

Need to understand how the cube / report processes data for break totals

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I have a medium complex report - 4 queries, 3 of which have merged dimensions of LOGIN_NAME

 

Everything works fine except when I get break totals, the totals are for TOTAL TOTALS for EACH break item ! And I can't figure out why . . . obviously WebI is not summing up what I see, it's grabbing the totals internally.

 

Here are the merged dimensions:

Merged Dimensions.PNG

Here's the data nicely merged . . .

Aberneth example.png

 

But break totals for each break item are the TOTAL TOTALS . . . so what is going on ?

bad break totals.png

I've tried every combination of merged dimensions but ultimately when I build it out it fails . . .

 

When I first did this it worked, but I had built it quick and dirty, and fugly . . . so I went to re-build it, but now the break totals are wacky.

 

I'm not asking you to troubleshoot this per se, but I need to understand what's going on (in the cube) so I can do my own troubleshooting.

 

Here's the first report that worked, it also has merged dimensions.

Totals example works.png

 

I've compared the two and can't see what's going on. The 2nd report was definitely cleaned up (and beautified . . . ) but the dang totals aren't working . . .

 

Can I sneak in one other question ? With breaks, is there not an automatic total total line ?

Un-Installing old BO Patches- Linux

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Hello Guys,

 

We have BO 4.1 SP 5 Patch 6  system running on SUSE Linux machine.

In order to free some space we like to de install the old BO packages from it.

 

I have executed the ./modifyOrRemoveProducts.sh and got the list of the patches but not sure about the sequence i should follow.

I have gone through the Installation Guide but did not get any information about it.

 

Does anyone get any idea?

 

Kind Regards,

Mohit

BIP replacing BW for Hana

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Hi

 

I plan to move my company's ECC server on SAP Hana database and use BIP/BOBJ 4.2 for reporting.

By using this strategy can i get rid of BW system and use BIP/BOBJ 4.2 system replace BW for reporting purpose.

 

Regards

Tushar


Disable AutoComplete for BI Launchpad

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Hi,

 

We have installed BI4.1Sp6 on windows in a test environment.

 

When the users enter their logon credentials, the browser is able to save the logon credentials.

 

 

They get a pop-up from IE or chrome whether to save the password for this page.

 

Our IT security has asked to disable this Autocomplete on the BI LaunchPad page(web form side).

 

I have gone through the BILaunchPad.properties file and could not find any property related to this.

 

 

Can someone help me how to get this disabled.

 

 

Regards

WebI Publication Failed (PDF)

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Hey,

 

we are on 4.2 and we try to schedule a WebI based publication with PDF output it always fails. It´s indipendent which destination I use. If I use WebI as output format everything works fine.

 

All APS (Crystal / WebI / AJS) are running fine.

 

Any suggestions?

Error while creating an OLAP connection to BPC

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Hello all,

 

I am trying to create an OLAP connection to BPC 10.0.17 version for Microsoft. I am using Bi platform 4.2 as I have also followed the guide to manually create the XMLA application in the IIS.

Moreover, The "Enable anonymous access" is set to TRUE in the XMLA.

 

However, when I try to connect vis the IDT I get the following error:

 

"com.businessobjects.mds.olap.protocol.xmla.internal.XMLAException: ErrorCode: 401

Description: Unauthorized"

 

And when I try to configure the connection via CMC I get the following:

 

"Failed to get connections for connection/xmla/XmlaWebService.asmx] using session locale [English]."

 

 

Does anybody have an idea please ?

webi report taking long time to open

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Hi ALL

 

Im having issue with some report taking too long to open

I know this is a general question but its tough to resolve it

 

Thing l have check

-whether the webi report is set to "Refreh on Open"  but is not

-I run  the same query in the backend database and it ran in 242.3 seconds.


but still having issue. I run it in Bl launch pad and rich client.


Any other solution out there.



Thanks

JS

BO upgrade from 4.1 sp3 to sp7 issues

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Hi guys

We recently upgraded to sp7 4.1.

However after the upgrade , my users have been having issues when they load an excel sheet as a data source in Webi.

when the excel sheet is loaded and they try to run the report, they get kicked out of BO.

 

Any ideas how to fix this??/

 

 

Cheers

Mass Reports Cleanup/Delete

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Hello Experts,

 

I have tried searching online and on the forums but wasn't able to find this information. If you know of any KB or forum where it has the below trick, please share it with me.

 

We have list of reports, their CUID, location, and name which are not associated with any Universes, and we would like to get rid of all these reports. These reports are in different locations. Is there an easy way to delete these reports in bulk rather than deleting one by one?

 

Also is there an easy way to delete other reports (if we have their CUID, location or exact names) in bulk? Say those reports that hasn't been used in years and we would like to cleanup?

 

I appreciate any help or guidance on this.

 

Thank you,

Ilyas

ADD On Issue

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When I close my user form from ADD On , I am getting Blue colored Shadow? How to solve this? Please find the attachment


Crystal Reports XI R2 RAS Crashes

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Hi,

  I have a Crystal Server that is installed on a Windows Server and once every month the RAS will crash and I will need to reboot the Server for reports to be generating again. I have tried to just restart the Service but that never works. I find this in the Windows Event Log...

 

The description for Event ID ( 34700 ) in Source ( BusinessObjects_crystalras ) could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s):  Transport error: Invalid object reference.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Rich

Using .Net SDK to add documents to Repository

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Hello.

 

 

I'm a long time .Net developer. I was presented with a problem from my company. They want to put legacy documents (.doc, .txt, .rpt) in SAP BI Platform/Infoview.

 

 

 

I noticed the SAP .net SDK. Is it possible to use this to create an application that would allow importing such documents into BI Platform?

 

 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Michael

SSO/ByPassing entering login credentials

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I already have my users' credentials. I want to automatically log them on to BI Launchpad without having them re-enter their credentials. How do I go about doing this?

 

We are using Crystal Server 2016 with BI 4.2.

 

I've been at this for days, so any help will be very much appreciated.

Installing a copy of BI Platform for testing

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Hi all,

 

We are trygin to create a duplicate copy of our production system (BI Platform 4.1 + SP06) on a target server (different host name / IP, no BI Platform installed).

 

I've followed chapter 14, steps 1-3, of the Administrator Guide, but even though the setup of BI Platform reports installation on the target as successfull, I've a lot of errors in the event viewer, for example:

 

"Could not open file C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessOBjects\SAP BUsiness OBjects Entreprsie XI 4.0\FileStore\Input\a_160\015\000\4000\lcm.cms.listguid[...].properties".

 

At this time of the process, the FRS has not been restored on the target, this is the next step of the admin guide, step 6 (NB: the files exist in the backup of the source FRS).

 

Since we followed exactly the admin guide how can we avoid these errors ?

Are they critical to the new installation (a repair / new installation should be done) or can be omitted ?

 

Thanks.

User session times out after BO upgrade from 4.1 sp3 to 4.1 sp7

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Hi all

 

After the BO service pack upgrade to sp7, my users have been complaining that their session keeps getting timed out even when they are away from their desk for 20 min or so...

 

I just want to know if this is the new feature of SP7?

 

Could I change the time out in CMC if required?

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