Repointing webi reports to a different universe

Hi,
I need to clone a set of webi reports (~35 of them) along with the 1 universe they all use for the purpose of migrating only a set of users with a newer version of the universe and reports. The remaining users need to be using the old universe and the old reports for a few months. I have an easy way to control access to the reports/universe via permissions so that's not a big deal, but the biggest unknown for me is once I copy the universe (or save as) and the reports, how do I repoint the cloned reports to reference the cloned universe?
I am on XIR2 and migrating "in place" (not to a new repository).
Thanks in advance.
Gennady

Hi -
While universe re-mapping isn't completely trivial, the API that supports it is thorough enough. You'll just have to maneuver your way through the work flow a bit and be cautious of the various ways in which it works (eg. change object source by dsobjID, dso class path, etc)
For example - from ReportEngine SDK documentation on the DataProviders.changeUniverse(...) method:
Changes old universe by the new one in the document. It means that all occurrences of a data source object will be replaced by another one of new universe. When applyMapping is true, this call provides a ChangeUniverseMapping containing all old data source object to be replaced with a possible new data source object default mapping. This mapping needs to be validated (so mustFillChangeUniverseMapping() will return true). After that, possibly DocumentInstance.getMustFillContexts() will return true, indicating at least a context must be resolved.
You'll first want to understand the platform SDK and how to manage objects within the Enterprise:
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/boesdk_java_dg_12_en.zip
Then dig deeper into the specifics of ReportEngine API (known as REBEAN sometimes)
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/resdk_java_dg_12_en.zip

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