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Comment on Business Objects XI – Changing BO Report / Universe Relationships by John Abraham

John Abraham — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:04:55 +0000

Hi Julian,

I’ve found this article very informative. However i ran into an issue and was hoping to find a suitable solution. I moved a universe from one environment to another and now when i try to export the Universe in the new environment it takes too long. But, its working fine in the old environment. Any tips will really help.
Thanks,

Comment on Hard to Find CMC Settings Revealed by prem

prem — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:48:28 +0000

Hi Julian your final words are absolutly true.and as a devoloper I found this article saved my time.

Thanks a lot

Comment on New Version of the Query Builder Guide is Released! by Julian

Julian — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:14:04 +0000

Wow Marshall! Actually, you are one of the guide’s early adopters and back then, when you bought it (almost 3 years ago), we were not as organized as we are now. I have emailed you the upgrade info that current buyers get. I hope you like this latest version. Thanks again for your purchase and support of BusinessObjectsTips.com.

Comment on New Version of the Query Builder Guide is Released! by Marshall Smith

Marshall Smith — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:45:30 +0000

Julian, this is great news! I’ll have to see if I still have my original receipt stored somewhere, since I’ve changed jobs since then. I’m looking forward to what tips you have on IsAllowed.

Comment on In Business Objects how can I get a list of reports using a specific universe? by Reeta

Reeta — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:38:04 +0000

Thank you Ravi! I will check with our server team.

Reeta

Comment on In Business Objects how can I get a list of reports using a specific universe? by Ravi

Ravi — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:33:13 +0000

Hi Reeta,

You will require a Java web application server for using AdminTools(Query Builder) war file to be deployed on. Probably you are using WACS/.NET as a combination thats the reason why they must have said you cannot use AdminTools

Regards,
Ravi

Comment on In Business Objects how can I get a list of reports using a specific universe? by Reeta

Reeta — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:23:29 +0000

Thank you so much for your quick reply. It is a possibility that they did not know where query builder lives while deploying. Can you give some steps how we can deploy it now?

Comment on In Business Objects how can I get a list of reports using a specific universe? by Julian

Julian — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:54:31 +0000

Hi Reeta, whoever told you that needs to go on your list of people to second-guess and question. Business Objects XI 3.1 (which I assume is what you are calling R3) certainly does have Query Builder. So also does the latest release of Business Objects called Business Intelligence platform 4.0 (BI 4.0). The web application “AdminTools” must be deployed for you to be able to use it. As far as I know Query Builder and “AdminTools” is free, always has been.

It is possible that the person who setup your web applications did not deploy AdminTools, or they did not know that AdminTools is where Query Builder lives. Either way, please let me know if you have found it on your system or been able to deploy it.

Comment on In Business Objects how can I get a list of reports using a specific universe? by Reeta

Reeta — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:29:18 +0000

Hi Julian,
We have been told Query builder is not availbale in R3. How do we run this query? Is it something that we need to buy separate brom SAP?

Comment on What is an Unbound Report and Why Should I Care? by Julian

Julian — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:11:00 +0000

Hi Dhiren, you are completely correct. Of course, you could bring in to PROD the Universe with a different CUID (and a different name), then you could manually open all WebI and or Desktop Intelligence reports and map them to that new Universe. Then you could delete the old universe and rename the new one as you please. No, having said this, if you use Life Cycle Manager (BO XI 3.1 and later) then this should automatically be handled for you.

There is another article that may be of interest to you:
“How to Backup a BO Universe and Maintain its CUID“