Unable to initialize APIs

Question

Hi,
I use Hyperion essbase 11.1.1.3. I have imported ESB32.bas file and just wrote a small code to check whether the apis gets initialized. But it does not get initialized. I get "API Initialization failed and hence Exiting". Here is my code.
Option Explicit
Declare Function EsbInit Lib "ESBAPIN.DLL" (Init As ESB_INIT_T, hInst As Long) As Long
Sub ESB_Init()
Dim hInst As Long
Dim Init As ESB_INIT_T
Dim sts As Long
ESB_FALSE = 0
ESB_TRUE = 1
' Define init structure
Init.Version = ESB_API_VERSION
Init.MaxHandles = 10
Init.LocalPath = "D:\Hyperion\products\Essbase"
Init.MessageFile = ""
Init.ClientError = ESB_TRUE
Init.ErrorStack = 100
' Initialize the API
sts = EsbInit(Init, hInst)
If sts = 0 Then
MsgBox ("API Initialization successful")
Else
MsgBox ("API Initialization failed and hence Exiting")
Exit Sub
End If
End Sub

Answer 1

on the machine you ar erunning this on have you installed the Essbase client or just smartview? you need to have the api.dlls installed for this to work. Check to see if you have a Hyperion\products\essbase\essbaseclient\api directory. If you do copy the dlls in the redist directory to the Hyperion\products\essbase\essbaseclient\bin directory and try again