SmartView Automation in 11.1.2

Hi
I was using smart view with 9.3 in Excel and automate my smart view refresh using Smart View APIs & VBA code
In 9.3, we need to create a connection in connection manager and re-use that connection in VBA code.
The smart view login prompt only came when u leave any of the field username or password as empty.
Now when i tried the same thing in 11.1.2 smart view, it does not work
Now i created a shared connection (also tried with private connection) with type as essbase. But when i use this name in HypConnect function, it always prompts the login screen and the fields for username & password are empty even though i have hard-coded the user name & password in code.
Am i doing anything incorrect or not creating the connection properly?
Is the friendly name which appears in Smart View panel not actually the Connection Name?

You should not get prompts if you have provided all the correct connection information. Can you post some sample code?

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- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/181050
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ping -l size -f
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- Tuning IIS 6.0 for HFM
- SmartView Performance FAQ
Both are available from Support.
Author: Andrew Rowland
Version: 11.x (Fri, 30 October 2009)"
regards
Alexander

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