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/people/community.user/blog/2008/01/22/welcome-to-the-business-objects-diamond-developer-community and, if you are looking for more detailed information beyond what you can find on SDN or BPX, check the following URL:
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Kind Regards,
Dragos Serban

Welcome Dragos. Glad to have you engaged and participating.
Mark Yolton

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Business Objects in Detail

Hi all,
Please tell me what is the major difference between BI and BO?
or What is the major functionality of BO?
I know that BO has been integrated with BI, how much it is helpful for a BI consltant?
Do BO should have a seperate server or can we install it with BI on the same.
Can we get a licensed Software for that to install?
I have few more Questions about BO but not able ........
So please provide me as much information as you can....
Thanking for your time
Points will be assigned

HI,
BO:
BusinessObjects and SAP Part I
BusinessObjects and SAP Part 2
BusinessObjects and SAP Part 3
BusinessObjects and SAP Part 4
BusinessObjects and SAP Part 5
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http://www.businessobjects.com/product/packages/
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Its the exclusive forum for BO.
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Tarak

Business objects in WF

Hi Experts,
i am new to workflow.
please provide some links to create BUSINESS OBJECTS(CREATE METHODS,ATTRIBUTES,EVENTS).
Thanks,
Bhuvan.

Thread locked.
Beginner questions are very welcome, but from your question it appears that you didn't even bother looking at the online help, the FAQ or searched on SDN.
Please read the [Rules of Engagement|https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/HOME/RulesofEngagement] on how to post a good question and make a little effort yourself before expecting people to give up their time to help you.
To those who responded, please do not encourage simple, vague and unresearched questions by answering them. This is not a point competition, and a better quality forum helps us all.
Thanks,
Mike

Business Objects Design Studio

I am working on a report on Business Objects Design Studio,
Please help me out with the below two issues,
1. I want to display user name after Welcome message. The user name should be of the person who is logged into the SAP warehouse currently.
2. The corresponding user should only view those option, reports that he has access to.
Please suggest me the approach to work on this scenario

Thanks Tammy for the reply. I have posted the same question in my second post, that's why I used the same thread.
What I am trying to do is,
I am trying to figure out a web item equivalent to role menu (of Web Application Designer) in Business Objects Design Studio.
Currently we are using BW 3.5 role menu to display BW 7.0 web template links. As SAP will no longer support role menu web item, I have to find a similar alternative, I am trying to look for a similar authorization (role menu) in Design Studio. All this is required so that if one user has access to only 3 reports then he should get only 3 reports displayed in the index page for all reports i.e main page for accessing all reports.
Also, i would greatly appreciate if you could please provide some more inputs on Design Studio Backend authorizations .

Optimum approach to architect BI solution in Business Object and SAP BI

Hi Expects , I as long as my experience going in delivering BI solution in Business Object and SAP BI We have option to connect to SAP BI via Building BO Universe on SAP BI cube or BEX Query . Now take a example we have 1000s of BEX queries in production. So Should I architect the solution recommending creation of 1000s of BO Universe. Which I donu2019t feel fusible option. You may reply me back saying create BO Universe on SAP BI Cube/Multiprovider, which will reduce no of universe to be created . But at the same time couple of questions comes in my mind u20131. Will I be able to leverage SAP BIA (SAP Business Intelligence Accelerator) to get best performance . 2. As of now BIA dose not accelerate queries build on Multiprovider ??? I believe When I Build Universe on BEX Query It will leverage BIA , But Not sure what will happen if I build BO Universe on Cube. Can we collectedly arrive at Optimum approach to architect Bi solution in Business Object and SAP BI ?? Comments are welcomed Regards Ashutosh D

Ashuthosh...
You might want to have a look at Pioneer for another option for your architecture.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/subscriptions/content?rid=/media/uuid/905d0ad2-9060-2b10-73bc-ce42a5668c6e
Arun

Portal logoff not clearing business objects SSO connection

Is there a way to clear the saved SSO information from the business objects session in the background?
The scenerio;
On a computer shared by multiple users
UserA Logs on to the SAP Enterprise portal, navigates to an iview that uses OpenDocument to run an xcelsius dashboard. Single signon works great and dashboard is displayed. This dashboard resfreshes on open and data retrieved is correct based on this users autorizations in BW. The user Clicks the logoff link in the masthead of the Enterprise portal, the portal session and its SAP logon ticket are closed and the Portal logon page is redisplayed.
UserB logs on the the SAP Enterprise portal, navigates to the same iview, the dashboard runs and retireves the data, but the data displayed is based on the BW autorizations for UserA.
I verified that the SSO connection that userB is using to retrieve data is left over from UserA. (I did this by simply opening an InfoView window and it shows the userid of UserA in the Welcome message.
Closing the Browser window between each user login takes care of the problem, but is not really something we can count on our users doing.

Hi Gail,
We are also facing same issue as you had, Integrated BI launchpad with Portal and SSO is working fine via portal. But issue is already opened reports or Business objects will not clearing as you had after log off and lo-gin back.
Can i setup any property to clear the BOBJ cookies or Can i create sap note for logoff option button on BOBJ via portal.
Can you please suggest me to resolve this issue.
Thanks,
Naveen

Business Object, SAP BW and SAP Enterprise Portal

Hello all,
I've a few questions about the possibility for linking Business Object, SAP BW and the SAP Enterprise Portal.
The Business Package MSS 1.41 give us a functionality to display (in a federated portal) personalized Budget and costs in an Overview Iview (kind of Welcome page).
Those information are retrieved from SAP BW and I'd like to know if it's possible to retrieve those data (with the same functionality) from Business Object tool.
Is it possible to have those personalized reports without having a direct link (standard architecture) between SAP BW and the federated portal?
Thank you in advance fro your answers.
Matthieu

Hi,
The procedure to replicate BW users in BO is explained in detail on the blog of Ingo Hilgefort:
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/09/19/businessobjects-and-sap--configure-sap-authentication
Regards,
Dave

Business Objects Core Dumps

Hi,
We are experiencing problems with Business Objects, in the past, from time to time we were required to re-start BO because BO was crashing. But, now this is happening more regularly, almost daily.
We have reports that take 12 hours approx. to complete. So, this is becoming a big issue for us.
We are using BO XI Release 2, service pack 1, hot patch 2.
Any assistance will be highly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

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Solution Manager and Business Object

Hi all,
Have you seen any specific information (from SAP or others) indicating how SAP plan to integrate the Business Object Products into Solution Manager?
First of all I need information about the SOLAR01/02 transactions (e.g. will separate Business Objects development objects become available? Will ASAP be extended to include Business Objects Projects?)
Secondly I would like to know if the Operations scenario also will be enhanced in order to include Business Objects Solutions?
Any informations/links/etc. would be welcome
Thanks in advance
Peter Michael

Hi,
SOLAR01 - Business Blueprint
SOLAR02 - Configuration.
Implementation projects are projects to select and implement business processes in an SAP landscape. A Business Blueprint documents these business process requirements of a company. Collaborative business processes involve several companies
The Business Blueprint provides a common strategy of how your business processes are to be mapped into one or more SAP systems. The Business Blueprint documents in detail the scope of business scenarios, business processes, process steps, and the requirements of an SAP solution implementation.
A Business Blueprint comprises the following structure elements in a hierarchy:
Organizational Units
Master data
Business scenarios
Business processes
Process steps
You assign content, for example, project documentation, Business Configuration Sets or transactions, to individual structure elements, in the SAP Solution Manager.
SOLAR02(Configuration) configures the process requirements specified in the Business Blueprint phase, in the system. If you use objects from the Business Process Repository in your own structures, some of them are already assigned to transactions and BC Sets. If you create structures independently, i.e. without objects from the Business Process Repository, you can assign transactions in the transaction Business Blueprint. You can assign BC Sets, IMG objects and test cases/business test requirements, in the transaction Configuration.

Portals supported for Business Objects

Post Author: izhar
CA Forum: General Feedback
Hi all members, I want to know, just like Sharepoint Portal which are other portals to connect with Business Objects. Which are other portals to be supported with Business Objects? Kindly any member guide here.
Any link having lists of portals supported for Business Objects is welcome.
Regards, Izhar

Post Author: jsanzone
CA Forum: General Feedback
Izhar,
I would suggest going to the Business Objects Support site and doing a search on "portal integration kit" (and before clicking on search, choose your product via the "Products:" indicator, as well as choosing the Document Types of "Kbase Articles", "Product Documentation", and "Technical Papers").

Where can I find information on migrating from Business Objects 5 to XI R2?

We want to migrate several Business Objects implementations - some of which are Business Objects 5 and some Business Objects 6 to consolidate them into a XI R2 environment.
I have the document that describes migration from 6.x to XI R2 but what is the process for migrating from Business Objects 5. Do I need to migrate from 5 to 6 and then follow the 6.x to XI R2 migration?
Any pointers to additional hints and tips on migration or how to estimate how much effort is involved would also be welcome.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi,
Following are the detailed steps for migration via Import Wizard:
1] Go to Start > Programs > Business Objects XI Release 2 > BusinessObjects Enterprise > Import Wizard.
2] The Welcome dialog box appears. Click Next.
Setting source and destination environments:
3] In the Specify source environment dialog box, set the following:
u2022 Source: Business Objects Enterprise BO 6.5.x.
u2022User Name:
u2022 Password: visor
BOMain key
Note: Do not check the Import Application Foundation contents option since you are not performing Performance Management migration at this time.
Click Next.
4] The Warning page appears. Click Next.
Note: The source repository can store any file, not just supported agnostic documents. Since the BusinessObjects XI Release 2 architecture requires a plug-in for each file extension, it does not import unsupported files (for example, .zip files and as .svg documents used in corporate dashboards).
5] The Specify destination environment page appears. Set the:
u2022 Destination: Business Objects Enterprise BOXI R2
u2022 User Name:
u2022 Password:
u2022 Domain key file to: Default drive: \Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2
Click Next.
6] Select the types of objects you want to import in this stage of the importing process. At a later stage, you select the objects themselves.
u2022 Select the option u2018Import universes u2018.
Click Next.
7] Import options for universes and connections dialog box appears.
Select the third option: Import all the universes and connections that the selected Web Intelligence and Desktop Intelligence documents use directly.
8] The Please choose a merge scenario dialog box appears. Select I want to merge the source system to destination system and check the automatically rename top-level folders that match top-level folder on the destination system option.
Click Next.
9] The Incremental Import dialog box appears.
You may need to import some objects more than once from the source repository to the destination repository.
In this situation, you have the following update options:
u2022 Overwrite object contents
You select the types of objects for which the content overwrite applies:
u2022 Documents (including dashboards and analytics)
u2022 Universes
u2022 Connections
When you re-import an object, it will completely overwrite and replace the matching object (and its associated files) that you imported earlier.
u2022 Overwrite object rights
When you re-import an object, its associated security rights will overwrite the rights of the matching object you imported earlier.
If you decided not to import security in the Security Migration Options dialog box, then the Overwrite object rights option is not relevant, and is therefore not available.
If you don't select any overwrite options, the matching object in the destination repository will not change when you try to import it again.
Note: This dialog box appears only if you select update as the import scenario.
Click Next.
10] Select the specific universe
Click Next
11] Information Collection complete dialog box appears.
Click Finish
12] Import Progress dialog box appears.
Click Done
Hope this helps !!
Please revert in case of any queries.
Regards,
Deepti bajpai

SAP BUSINESS OBJECTS THROUGH VPN NO LOGON

Hi Experts and community
I am trying to connect to Business objects (Intercompanies) through VPN to the mother company, and altough I get the logon screen, when I input my credentials it just returns a please wait message and does not proceed any further, and after a couple of minutes the please wait message is dissapearing.
Note, that I am able to connect to another application of Business Objects (Accounting) of the mother company with no problem so the VPN seems to have no problem.
Also note that I am passing through my company server to reach the server(s) of the mother company.
Thanks in advance for any reply
PS. I hope that I am at the right area of the Forum as it is my first time and I am lost

Thanks for the reply.
I am attaching the lower part of the wording of the screen where I enter my credentials. I do not know if it helps to define what kind of Business Objects it is.
*Welcome to the BusinessObjects IntercompanyTM Website enabling peer to peer intercompany reconciliation via the web. You must enter your username and password to access your Intercompany Gateway. If you have not been assigned a username or password please contact your local administrator.*
*Application Language*
*EnglishFrançaisEspañolDeutschItalianoNederlandsРусский한국어Português (Brasil)SvenskaPolskiNorsk (bokmål)DansksuomiTürkçeLithuanian*
*Connected to data source: ICS_V51_V10*
*© Copyright 2010 SAP AG. All rights reserved.*
*SAP and the SAP logo are registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo are registered trademarks of Business Objects S.A., which is an SAP company.* "
If it does not help I will then have to try somewhere else.
Thanks again

SAP Business Objects Explorer app Sybase SUP settings

Hello Community,
Is there a guide or a how to for setting up the SAP Business Objects Explorer application with Sybase Unwired Platform?
I found a guide to setup the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile application but nothing for Explorer.
Could someone please advise?
Thank you
Jared

Hi All,
If SUP comes is introduced in the landscape then the whole licensing structure changes then when used where we directly connect to BI server from the SAP BI app instead of introducing the SUP in the landscape.So what will be advantages of using the SUP against when we compare the licensing part in both the system landscape with SUP and without SUP.Also if we directly use the app with the BI server then apps user license will also play some role ??.I am new to the Mobile BI division and so please forgive me if i have asked some silly question and also some starter links are welcomed.
Thanks & Regards,
Fenil Doshi.

What makes Business Objects so special?

Hello,
I am a student of Moscow State Institute of International Relations and I has chosen Business Objects as a theme of my Bachelor graduation work.
So I have several questions:
1. What does offer Business Objects that does not offer for example not so special program as Excel from Microsoft?
2. I am also interested in such form of representation of the results as so called u201Cpilot cabinu201D system.
I will appreciate any information concerning these two topics and any examples of the reports which provide information in more visual way.
Thanks,
Nikolay

Hi Nikolay,
Welcome to SCN!
There are numerous starter's resources present in SCN. You'd need to look around at the right places. I can point you to few:
BO for beginners: Re: Business Objects Beginners Guide
Getting started
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/business-objects-for-sap?rid=/webcontent/uuid/20f83c7e-3f2a-2c10-7dbf-a5ec14611a1e [original link is broken]
For SAP BI Consultants looking to start with BusinessObjects:
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/ForSAPBIConsultantslookingtostartwithBO
Happy exploring!
-Subhodeep
(Apologies if any of the above URLs don't work now)

Data federator in business objects

Hi,
What is the use of data federator in business objects.
Regards,
G

HI,
The only option in this case is to 1) use Business Objects' Data Federator to bring XYZ data and BW (new) data together, 2) creating a relational universe, and 3) creating Crystal / WEBI reports using the relational universe; see Picture 1.
>> You can also combine the data by using a MultiProvider in BW which is access the data in BW and the data in the legacy system and an additional alternative is to move all the data into BW.
After 20 years goes by, and we no longer need to report on data housed in XYZ anymore, the environment will be turned off.
1) When this happens, wouldn't we want to remove Data Federator and the relational universe from the scenario ?
>> That depends on the approach you took
Ingo

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