Location of Hyperion Financial Reports on Server

Question

Hello,
Are the Hyperion Financial Reports available as raw files on the web server somewhere? I'd like to restore one from backup and was hoping they'd be in the \Hyperion directory as .des files. Probably won't be this easy, but any info would be great.
Thanks.

Answer 1

For 7.2.5 Reports, they are in a SQL database table (i think something RPTS) and the binary data field has the text of the report. (I actually like this because if you wanted to check what reports made use of a account, entity, etc, you could just do a freetext search on the table.....)
For 9.3.1 Reports, they are in a crazy file structure, with crazy names, and are compressed. You will find them under the RM service/web application folder. In order to X-REF the names properly, you'll need to look into the BI Plus database a bit. The table of interest is V8_CONTAINER.
I put together a SQL 2005 script that will generate you a listing of all of the reports in a hierarchy format. This will will also help you tie out the folders / reports in the file structure......
NOTE : WHERE d.PARENT_FOLDER_UUID = 'REPORTMART'
^ This will return a hierarchy of EVERYTHING in the table which will probably include stuff you don't want to look at. Simply change 'REPORTMART' to match a UUID specified in the results and then the query will show you all items at that point instead.
Hope this helps
Charles
USE your DB name here;
GO
WITH Reports (PARENT_FOLDER_UUID, CONTAINER_UUID, NAME, DESCRIPTION, Level, Sort, CREATION_DATE, LAST_MODIFIED_DATE)
AS
-- Anchor member definition
SELECT d.PARENT_FOLDER_UUID, d.CONTAINER_UUID, d.NAME, d.DESCRIPTION, 0 as level, cast(NAME as nvarchar(1024)) as sort, d.CREATION_DATE, d.LAST_MODIFIED_DATE
FROM V8_CONTAINER as d
WHERE d.PARENT_FOLDER_UUID = 'REPORTMART'
UNION ALL
-- Recursive member definition
SELECT d1.PARENT_FOLDER_UUID, d1.CONTAINER_UUID, d1.NAME, d1.DESCRIPTION,
Level + 1, cast(Sort + '|' + d1.Name as nvarchar(1024)), d1.CREATION_DATE, d1.LAST_MODIFIED_DATE
FROM V8_CONTAINER as d1
INNER JOIN Reports AS r
ON d1.PARENT_FOLDER_UUID = r.CONTAINER_UUID
-- Statement that executes the CTE
SELECT replicate(' ',Level) + NAME, DESCRIPTION, CREATION_DATE, LAST_MODIFIED_DATE, Level, PARENT_FOLDER_UUID, CONTAINER_UUID
FROM Reports
order by sort
GO