Scheduled Report Fails To Run If User Password Has Expired

Question

Why can't a report, that has been scheduled for a user whose password has expired, continue to run and go to its predefined destinations?
A user doesn't know until he/she attempts to log in that there is a password expiration issue.  They may have scheduled the report to go to a  multitude of inboxes, but if their password has expired, the report doesn't run.
I can understand "some" issues with the necessity to stop the report until credentials are updated correctly.  However, Business Objects doesn't notify a user until it has expired, thus making it too late for those expecting something in their inbox.
Is there any method of notifying users that their password is going to be expiring soon, in advance?  In other words, is there any "proactive" feature within Business Objects for notifying the user of an upcoming need to change their password?
HepMe

Answer 1

There is nothing built in to BusinessObjects for this, but there may be third-party tools available or you can write code that would do this.
In Query Builder, run this query:
Select SI_ID, SI_Name, SI_LAST_PASSWORD_CHANGE_TIME, SI_UPDATE_TS, SI_LASTLOGONTIME
from CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS where SI_Kind = 'User' and SI_NAME != 'Administrator' and SI_NAME != 'Guest' and SI_PASSWORDEXPIRE = 1
order by SI_LAST_PASSWORD_CHANGE_TIME desc, SI_UPDATE_TS desc
Users who are new and haven't yet changed their password will not have a value for SI_LAST_PASSWORD_CHANGE_TIME, so you can use SI_UPDATE_TS to determine when they were created.
You could build an application that uses this query to determine who is getting close to password expiration and send out an email reminding those users to change their passwords.
-Dell