Explorer/Polestar

Is there any way to re sort the order of the facets/dimensions in as they appear in the an information space?
They appear to display in no specific order and can be in a different order each time you open the space.
Edited by: Josh Chapman on Feb 12, 2010 8:23 PM

Hi Agnes,
according to the Explorer documentation new data are available AFTER reindexing.
Indexing refreshes the data and metadata in Information Spaces. After
indexing, any new data on the corporate data providers upon which those
Information Spaces are based becomes available for search and exploration.
Regards,
Stratos

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I am breaking this out from a different thread I created for clarity and because I am still not clear on the answer.
Basically I am trying to work out whether Polestar SP3 is available and if not is it safe/recommended/supported to install SP3 for Edge XI 3.1 and SAP Integration Kit, but SP2 for Polestar, i.e. different support pack levels? Apologies if I can find this information in the documentation, but I've so far been unable to.
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I have a question I hope you guys can help me with.
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u2022 On 32-bit Windows: %windir%\system32
u2022 On 64-bit Windows: %windir%\sysWOW64
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Difference between Business Objects Explorer and Polestar

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thanks & regards
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http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexplXI32/en/exp32_whats-new_en.pdf
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Polestar explorer XI3.1 sp1 is out at the moment. Does anyone know when XI3.1 sp2 is going to be out so it is compatiable with XI3.1 enterprise sp2.
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Polestar vs. Explorer

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