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Candidly sharing our adventures in the land of Business Objects and the establishment of this web site.
- Please Excuse Our Virtual Dust - August 7, 2010
Please don't let the virtual dust bother you too much. Business Objects Tips' infrastructure was overdue for some updates and one of those touches on the look and feel. We hope to complete the work soon and eliminate any noticeable disruptions in the...
- BOT Was Down: Our Apologies, But It's Your Fault! - June 30, 2010
I just wanted to apologize for the downtime our site experienced in the last 24 hours. I'm not sure how long it lasted, but I hope it was only for a few hours. You should know that the downtime was all your fault. Yes, the site exceeded its allocate...
- New Query Builder Guide Version Published - Includes XI 3.x Updates and Relationship Functions - March 6, 2010
I have finally completed my nearly 3-month long update to our Query Builder Guide. Like most things I do, the deeper I got into it the more I found that needed work. What kept me going, and delaying my previously promised delivery time, was the rea...
- Hardly Working? No, Hard at Work on the Query Builder Guide - February 17, 2010
I feel I owe a small explanation for the lull in the new article publishing on the site. I have remained active at responding to article comments, but I haven't published a new article in nearly a month (although I just added some details to the lates...
- Newly Released Guide: Web Intelligence Quick Reference - December 12, 2009
It has been exactly one month since I published my last Business Objects XI article. I sincerely apologize for the delay, but I promise that I did not take a holiday. I spent the past month working on enabling a new "Subscribe to Comments" feature an...
- New Feature: Subscribe to Article Comments - November 29, 2009
I have wanted to add the ability to subscribe to article comments to this web site since the first comment was left nearly 1.5 years ago. Unfortunately, this feature has not yet been built into our underlying Content Management System (WordPress). Th...
- We Are a Top 25 Site, Check Us Out on xmarks - November 19, 2009
You probably found this website using a search engine. We try to write our articles so that search engines will index them and rank them well enough for our readers to be able to locate them using search engines. Another smaller source of traffic are...
- Want a Business Objects XI Guide? Please Let Me Know - November 9, 2009
For those of you who might have had the time to revisit this web site over the past year you might be wondering why we only have one single guide available. I ask myself this question almost everyday. I have been working on an administrator's Life Cy...
- Hello!?!? It's Called BO XI 3, not XI Release 3! - July 12, 2009
It is time to flog myself openly here. Not only to seek forgiveness, repentance, and even pity; but to avoid having to update every single mistaken reference made to Business Objects XI 3! Once and for all "Release 3" or "R3" Never Was and Never Ha...
- Windows 7 is not the Answer to BOXI R2's Prayers - May 17, 2009
I am not one to spread rumors, but I thought I might pass this little one along to see if anyone has any experience that could confirm it. Anyway, my little rumor is... Initial tests running the Business Objects XI R2 (BOXI R2 or XIR2) web client thr...
- Have You Heard of Path Queries in Query Builder? - May 6, 2009
Did you know that there is a tweak that you can do to your Business Objects server's Query Builder main page "query.jsp" so that it can handle "Path Queries"? Do you know what a "Path Query" is? Do you know why you should care about "Path Queries"? ...
- New Lower Price on Query Builder Guide - March 24, 2009
I just wanted to let visitors know that we have just lowered the price of the "BusinessObjectsTips.com Query Builder Guide" to $27.00. We have heard a lot of good things about the guide from its students since its release late last year. It truly is ...
- SAP + Business Objects = SAP Business Objects... Brilliance! - January 19, 2009
It has been over a year since SAP announced its acquisition of Business Objects. During those long 14 months it seems that the branding experts at SAP have decided on a new name for BO. Yes, they brilliantly came up with the catchy and yet classic "S...
- Officially Released: The Best Business Objects XI Query Builder Guide Ever Written! - December 7, 2008
Perhaps a few visitors to BusinessObjectsTip.com have already noticed that we posted a new guide for BO XI Query Builder on the site last month. Due to some technical difficulties and lots of other lame excuses there was trouble finding and ordering t...
- Back in the Saddle - November 21, 2008
Business Objects has not been kind to me for a while. I have been putting in way too many hours dealing with major product failures and trying to keep my customers up and running while BO scrambles to fix their code. I know that I am not alone in thi...
- My Topic Brainstorm - October 9, 2008
I have been swamped by my non-BusinessObjectsTips.com obligations, but in teh bak of my head I am working on the following new article topics: Report and Universe Binding: the strong bind between reports and universes that can easily be broken by a...
