Bex designer error on restricted action

Question

Hello,
In the Bex designer, I have the following error when I use the Restrict function on a characteristic :
"unexpected 'activex component can't create object' error occured in wdbrlog."
Thanks for your help ....
Rgds,
Martine

Answer 1

Hey Martine,
I have a similar problem. BEx terminates with a run-time error every time I try to access the Fiscal year / Period characteristic in the Time dimension. This happens in (as far as I know) two situations:
- when I click to open the values branch to display the values in the tree.
- when the selector box tries to display the values that I can choose from to define a restriction.
All other characteristics are fine.
Just before the crash, three successive status messages appear in the bottom left corner of the Query Designer screen: Getting Master Data - Reading Master Data - Reading Query Definition. It's always during this third action that BEx goes down. I wonder if there is some editable routine or script behind those status messages that causes the problem.
Another thing I found is that the BW server performs a rollback every time BEx crashes like this. (Message number R68 in SM21). Is this a normal event when a connection is lost?
I've looked for other posts on many forums on the same subject, but only one solves the problem by installing an SP that is older than the system I work on. (I work on BW 3.1 SP 18).
I'd really appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Wittakay
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