Automatic way to detect erroneous workbook?

Question

Hi everyone!
I just opened some worksheets in my disco dektop and find out that the items cannot be shown cause the structure in the database has changed and the sql isn't correct anymore.
Does anybody has an idea if one can see broken worksheet/workbooks somewhere in the eul5?
That would be great because i guess we have a few dozen of them and I would like to delete them.
regards,
sven

Answer 1

Hi Sven
I'm afraid there isn't a real simple way. One way, as you'be found out is to attempt to open each one in turn to determine whether you can or cannot open it.
Coming at this from a different angle, we can identify folders that are no longer valid along with any workbooks that use them.
To determine whether a folder is still valid use this workflow:
1. Launch the Administrator tool
2. Open up a business areas
3. Highlight one or more suspected folders
4. Right-click and from the pop-up choose Refresh
5. When prompted, choose On-line dictionary and click Finish
6. Discoverer will analyze the folder looking for changes
When the validation is done, one of three things will happen. These are:
1. All will be fine in which case the message will be - Refresh is complete, no differences found
2. The underlying database object is there but some of the columns are wrong
3. The underlying database object is no longer there when the message will be - No definition exists
For number 1, all is well.
For number 2, Discoverer will tell you which objects should be refreshed, and then you make a decision whether to allow Discoverer to update its folder
For number 3, any workbook that used this folder will no longer open, proceed with workflow below:
Once you have determined that a folder can no longer associated with a database object and you are not able to reattach it, you will have to remove any workbooks which used it. Here's a workflow:
1. Still in the Administrator tool, right-click on the folder and select Delete Folder
2. On the next screen, don't go through with the deletion yet, but rather click the Impact button
3. Discoverer will analyze the underlying EUL and let you know which workbooks use the folder - make a note of these as well as the owner name
4. Click OK on the Impact screen and then, making sure that Delete from the EUL is checked, click the OK button - the folder will now be deleted
After you have completed removing erroneous folders and determined which workbook(s) need to be deleted, launch an end user tool and proceed with the deletion of the workbooks.
Hope this helps
Best wishes
Michael
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