WEBI reports DEV to QA to PROD

Hi. I need help understanding how WEBI reports are moved from Dev to Qa to Prod?
Thanks.

Hi
you have three option:
1) Use the Import Wizard to transfer your reports, universes and universe connections but in this case you have to modify the universe connections after each transport.
2) Use the Import Wizard to transfer initially your reports, universes and universe connections. After the initial trasmfer modify the universe connections in the QA and PRD environments according to your needs. From this point on choose to transfer only the reports and the universes but avoid transfering the related connections. This way the modified connections are not overwritten and you do not have to modify them in the future.
3) Use the LifeCycle manager (You have to upgrade to XI 3.1 for this).
Regards,
Stratos

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We have created a Webi-Report on a BW Universe on our DEV server. Everything works like a charm and we are prompted as the first thing for keydate and the report is refreshed successfully. We then export the Universe (no connection overwrite) and Report to our TEST server with the Export Wizard and the problems start.
When we refresh the report on the TEST server we are prompted for keydate. If we select a value for the date we receive an error:
A database error occured The database error text is: The MDX (and then some MDX) failed to execute with the error Specify a value for variable Financial Statement Version. (WIS 10901)
If we select Use default value the report refreshes but no currency conversion is done. We can then refresh the report again and this time if we select a value for the keydate the report refreshes without the above error.
We have tried to overwrite the connection during export from DEV to TEST so the connection points to our DEV BW Server with the same result. If we create the universe on the TEST server from scratch everything works as intended.
If we transport the Universe and report from DEV to PROD directly the report works as intended.
The BO user (SSO WinAd) testing this have admin rights on BO. The connection in the univers to BW is done using a fixed username and password (no SSO to BW)
I am now out of options and would appreciate any input you might have to solve this problem.
Best Regards,
Lars

Hi Wavery,
Thanks for your reply. I have checked the connections and they are named exactly the same on DEV/TEST/PROD. I have also tried deleting the universe, connection and report on TEST and then do a new transport of all of them from DEV to TEST. Same result.
What I don't understand is why the refresh works if I do it in two steps:
<OL>
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I set keydate to "use default value" when prompted and the report will refresh without the keydate dependent calculations. None keydate dependent measures are showing correct values from BW.
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Then I refresh again and set the keydate to a date and the report refreshes with the dependent calculations.
</LI></OL>
This tells me the connection is working and the problem is somewhere else. At the moment I'm clueless
Any input is highly appreciated.
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Lars

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we are implementing BO for the first time using SAP BW data as the Source.
we are done with the development of the BO webi reports .Now need to migrate the reports form Dev to test system.
Can anyone send me a Procedure for mirgrating the Queries from Dev to Test.
We are using BO 3.1 Sp2 .
Thanks in Advance.

Hey janardhana Ch,
One can use :
1. LCM(Life Cycle Management)
2. Import Wizard
SAP BO introduced LCM specifically for migration of reports/universes etc between different environments. (DevTestQA--Prod) and at the same time one can use "Import Wizard" also.
And Import Wizard you can use for migration from older version to newer versions.
Per my experience, i used and using Import Wizard for migration between environments.
If you need further help on this, just let me know your mail, i'll share real-time migration doc which i prepared.
Thank You!!

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I have written a variable to calculate Average. It works fine for all entries in Dev. But when I transport it to Test Environment, it works fine for some entries and does not work for some entries.
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This is happening in WEBI Report.
Regards
Edited by: No.One on Sep 21, 2011 2:45 PM

Hi,
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there are lot of possibilities to migrate a Webi report or a universe from Development server to Production server. my question for the experts is what is best practice scenario to do that. What should i take in consideration.
if i rename my Production universe, place it in an other Path and base my migration on the option "compare name and Path" of the universes. would it migrate ? What about the Connection ?
My Target when migrating Universes. Is only to migrate the universe without connections
But when migrating Webi Reports is to migrate only the reports without universes or connections. But at the same time be sure that the Report is adressed to the right universe in the Destination System.
Is that realistic .. Thanx ..

Prerequest:
You should have Remote access to both the server the BO is installed
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connect to server2
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select the temp.biar file from desktop of server 2 and destination as server 2
and complete the process
Note: as we are doing this in remote, there will be lot of issues while connection to path which sometimes even the erro r message will mislead us....
Approach2:
dont create any biar file
Login to server 2
Go to import wizard
select server 1 as source and server 2 as destination and move directly from server to server
Approach2 is not preffered if server 2 is production serve....
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I create a webi report in QA, how can I transport this webi into production, do I have to create the same webi report in production, or I have some approach to change the datasource for this QA webi report ?
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Hi!
look at the LCM
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Performance issue and data getting interchanged in BO Webi report + SAP BW

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We are using SAP BW queries as the source for creating some BO reports.
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SAP - SAP BI 7.1
BO - BO XI 3.1
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The reports were working fine in Dev and Q with less data. But when we point the universes to BW prod ( where we have much data), the reports are taking quite a long time to refresh and getting timed out. This query has some key figures which are having customer exits defined to show only one month data. And also BW accelerators are updated for the infocubes pertaining to this query. The BO report is giving data if we apply a filter in 'Query Panel' of Webi to show only current month dates. But then the issue is the values are getting interchanged for many objects. For ex: there are 2 objects- ABS version and Market region. The values are getting interchanged in the BO level.
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Sivakami

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Thanks Roberto. We'll check the notes
@Ingo,
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Query Stripping
Where should we enable query stripping? When i went through some documentation it was written that it'll be enabled automatically from XI 3.1 Sp3. Can you please let us know if its so and what we need to do to enable it.
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Error occured while refreshing webi report in bi system

Dear Experts ,
please look into my problem
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ERROR: a database error occured. the database error text is unable to connect to sap bw server incomplete logon data.. (wis10901)
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HI ayur
In the universe connection if the username and password is hardcoded then make sure those username and passwords are correct.
else
Make sure you are in the right BOX, for example if Universe is pointed to Prod, and you execute the report associated with that universe in the Dev, then that error will show up. So in universe connection find out to what BOX(dev, test, prod) it is pointed to and login to webI in the same BOX as universe pointed to and execute the report.
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Error while refreshing webi reports

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I am getting the below error when i try to refresh my webi reports in prod/uat/qa/dev
These reports are developed on my team mate's id .
Please assist
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mahi

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SSO Configuration :
http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Generate+keystore+and+certificate+for+SAP+BO+BI4.0
Import SAP BO BI4.0 certificate into SAP BW - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki
Setup of SAP SSO Service in SAP BO BI4.0 CMC - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki

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Edited by: Andrew Lewis on Jan 20, 2011 12:27 PM

Seems the issue has been resolved, and possibly a caching problem all along.
I had a number of suggestions from OSS, which didn't seem to work, but then I decided to add the iview to a page, and add that page to a role. When I did that, it worked, and when I then ran the initial iview on it's own, it worked as well.
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Andrew

Error in webi report - ORA-06502

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hello,
yes the DB across the landscapes is same version ...
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Best Practice to bring OLAP Universe and WebI Report to Production

What are the best ways to bring a WebI Report that is developed on a OLAP Universe (based on BEx Query) from Development to Production environment?
Edited by: B.Wegner on Nov 8, 2010 2:54 PM

1) Move your BEx query from SAP DEV to SAP PROD (SAP internal transport system)
2) Move your report (incl. universe) using the LCM or the Import Wizard from your BOBJ DEV to your BOBJ PROD system
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Regards,
Stratos

#Datatype error in WebI Reports

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