Change Report Owner

Question

In a previous thread titled [Change Report Owner|Change Report Owner; by [Roy King|http://forums.sdn.sap.com/profile.jspa?userID=4028889] he was asking how to change the owner of a report.
Since the post went unanswered, I thought I would post the solution that worked for me:
If you are using ASP.Net like I did, you can follow the post from [Pinchii.com: How to Change Owner for a Crystal Reports Server Report|http://pinchii.com/home/2011/01/how-to-change-owner-for-a-crystal-reports-server-report/]
The code on this page is a complete .NET project ready to use
If you are using Java, you can use the code from [ Forumtopics.com's BoB LoblaW: Re: Change Report Owner|http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj/viewtopic.php?p=699058#699058].  Bob's code is only the bit you need to change the owner, but you still have to code the rest
The key to change the owner is to change SI_OWNERID
and the fix for Roy Kings Code:
Replace the line oSourceUserObject.save();
sourceUser = (IInfoObjects) iStore.query("select * from ci_infoobjects where si_id=" + repID);
for ( int i = 0; i < sourceUser.getResultSize(); i++ ) {
oSourceUserObject = (IInfoObject)sourceUser.get(i);
//oSourceUserObject.properties().setProperty("SI_OWNERID",ownerID); //set new Name/ID
oSourceUserObject.properties().setProperty(CePropertyID.SI_OWNERID,ownerID); //set new Name/ID
//oSourceUserObject.save();
oSourceUserObject.save();
with
iStore.commit(sourceUser);
The above code is not complete, you need to declare an instance of the infoStore service which is represented above by iStore

Answer 1

I would open a support ticket, since you appear to have an interesting case.
As background, there's some things that can trigger change in ownership to Administrator, where the main culprit is that the original owner User is either deleted or disappears.  When the owner is gone, then documents are transferred to the Administrator. 
For example, if you have AD or LDAP authentication based Users, and the connection to the authentication server dies, then a refresh update can remove those users (unless you generate Enterprise auth aliases for each User).
Sincerely,
Ted Ueda