Report Metadata in BO XI R2

Post Author: sanjoy
CA Forum: META Data and Lifecycle management
Hi, Can anybody give any idea where is the metadata of a report is stored in BO XI R2. I know regarding metadata storage of universe. But I am not finding any thing regarding the report metadata. Whether it is stored in a file, then what is the location or in a database repository. Regards,Sanjoy

A code snippet for Text:
        txtPath = @"C:\mytext.txt";
        ceSession = (new SessionMgr()).Logon(username, password, cmsname, authtype);
        InfoStore infoStore = new InfoStore(ceSession.GetService("InfoStore"));
        int folderID = ((InfoObject) infoStore.Query("Select TOP 1 SI_ID From CI_INFOOBJECTS "
                                                     + " Where SI_KIND='Folder' "
                                                     + " And SI_NAME='" + folderName + "'")[1]).ID;
        InfoObjects txts = infoStore.NewInfoObjectCollection();
        Txt         txt = (Txt) txts.AddEx("Txt");
        txt.Title = "Test Text";
        txt.Files.Add(txtPath);
        txt.ParentID = folderID;
        infoStore.Commit(txts);
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ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exceptionI just don't get why it displays here instead of in the usual failure area. Moreover, I don't understand why the error is "*+unhandled+* user-defined exception" when, as you will see, I have handled it.<Jedi>These are not the errors you are looking for.</Jedi>
Anything included under a "report error" during page rendering is not displaying errors associated with a page process, but with the rendering of that report region, in this case clearly:
ORA-20001: Error fetching column value: ORA-01403: no data foundThe ORA-06510 user-defined exception error relates to this (ORA-20001 being a user-defined error), but it is coming from the APEX framework rather than your code. Often these prove to be untraceable, unrecoverable problems caused by corruption of report metadata, only "fixable" by dropping and recreating the region.
This may or may not be related to the setting of the page item "by said PL/SQL procedure", but the exceptions reported in the region are not being raised by the procedure.
What does the debug trace show to be going on?
Edited by: fac586 on 15-Aug-2012 08:35
Added "...reported in the region..." for clarity

Project server 2010 What are the number of Custom fields and views allowed?

How many customizations are permitted in Project Server 2010?
Thanks in advance

Hi
new findings on that issue...
There is an article for Project Online that speaks about limits for reporting: https://support.office.com/en-US/Article/Project-Online-software-boundaries-and-limits-5a09dbce-1e68-4a7b-b099-d5f1b21ba489?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
Apart from that you will have an issue if you like to upgrade to Project Server 2013. When trying to convert the 2010 databases to a 2013 database a SQL stored procedure will fail if you have more custom fields than fit into the UserViews.
Error message will be something like this:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): INIT METADATA ERROR! At least one mismatch found between SQL schema for view MSP_EpmProject_UserView and reporting metadata. Call to MSP_Epm_CheckIntrinsicAttributes failed for Projects INIT
METADATA ERROR.
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action`1 wrapCloseInAction)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean callerHasConnectionLock, Boolean asyncClose)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.TryRun(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean& dataReady)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async, Int32 timeout, Task& task, Boolean asyncWrite)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, TaskCompletionSource`1 completion, Int32 timeout, Task& task, Boolean asyncWrite)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(TaskCompletionSource`1 completion, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe, Int32 timeout, Boolean asyncWrite)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Data.SqlSession.ExecuteNonQuery(SqlCommand command) ClientConnectionId:21f11abd-7388-48a0-a029-b5161fcb2dc8
Workaround for the issue (UNSUPPORTED !!!!!!)
Execute the Convertto-SPProjectDatabase script. Now you need to be fast or well prepared. You need to find the MSP_Epm_CheckIntrinsicAttributes stored procedure. Execute an ALTER statement for it and change the last lines of code to something like this:
LblError:
   PRINT @ErrorMessage
--changed RETURN code if an error occurs to be able to proceed with migration
--RETURN 1
   RETURN 0
END
I hope that helps someone out there - when I came across the issue last night, a google query returned nothing for INIT METADATA ERROR....
Regards
Christoph
Christoph Muelder | Senior Consultant, MCTS, MCSE | SOLVIN information management GmbH, Germany

Basic authentication only works for some webservices?

I'm trying to call the SAP BI/BO REStful webservices using basic authentication. I enabled basic authentication in the WACS and tested with this service:
http://host:6405/infostore/16422
This works! I can get the report metadata as either xml or json. However, whenever I try an url with "raylight" in it, I get an authentication problem:
http://host:6405/biprws/raylight/v1/documents/16422/parameters
error_code: "1"
message: "No session found in HTTP header X-SAP-LogonToken"
Why do some services work with basic authentication and others absolutely require the logontoken? I would like to avoid the logontoken if possible. I tested by logging on with the token and that does work, so it's not like my credentials are wrong.
I also found the a problem with the raylight logontoken described here: RESTful Raylight Error Incorrect session
Apparently, there needs to be double quotes around the logontoken for it to work. Could this "bug" be the reason why basic authentication doesn't work? I already tfried to put double quotes around and inside my base-encoded value but it still gives the same error.

Hello,
Raylight doesn't support basic authentication because it required a permanent session to work. Internally, we have to manage a "cache" to support subsequent REST calls and this is not possible using basic authentication.
Regards,
Anthony

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