Comments on: Using BO Query Builder to Detect Report-Universe Binding Status

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:52:58 +0000

Julian,

In the WHERE clause, we are using SI_UNIVERSE.SI_TOTAL = 0 to filter for unbound reports. It seems to be working. Is the issue you mentioned about not using property bags in the WHERE clause only an issue if you do not define a property as we have? I just want to make sure we are fooling ourselves somehow. Thanks.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:43:22 +0000

Hi Sue, thanks for asking. Unfortunately, I haven’t an SDK method for setting a report’s universe. I will ask around again and see if anyone can give me a lead.

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:32:18 +0000

Hi Julian. Nice article. Have you found out if it’s possible to bind a universe with reports via SDK? Thanks!!

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:03:29 +0000

Hi Rajesh, you are correct. For now this is all that has been confirmed. I even raised cases to SAP-BO on this and they said it was the only way. I suspect that it could be done via SDK, but I have not played with it yet.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:45:45 +0000

Julian,

Thanks for the reply..I read all your articles..but none of them specified how to put back the binding other then manually opening the report.

Please let me know if I’m missing something?

Thanks
Raj

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:27:27 +0000

Hi Rajesh, please let me know if none of the articles tagged with "Unbound Report" meet you needs: http://www.businessobjectstips.com/tags/unbound-report/

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:33:47 +0000

Julian,

I was reading your article and you mentioned about article that you will write for fixing unbound reports.

Is this new article ready for people like us facing problems with unbound reports?

IF not, could you please give me some idea to correct unbound reports. The problem is we have thousands of reports unbounded (as per Query Builder) and all of them are running fine may be because of universe short name relationship.
But I still want to put back the binding to avoid unnecessary problems in the future.

The only solution that I know is manually pointing the report to unvierse. I’m looking for some process that automatically puts binding to all reports.

Your help is much appreciable.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:31:13 +0000

Hi Hrishikesh,

Certain attributes of reports are only contained within the report itself. I invite you to do a simple query in Query Builder, such as:
SELECT * FROM SI_InfoObjects WHERE si_id = XXXXXXXXX
where XXXXXXXXX is the object ID of the report and you will see all that is available to you. Each version of BO can have different properties available from this query, so this is a very good exercise for you.

Best Regards,
Julian

By: Hrishikesh

Hrishikesh — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:26:29 +0000

Hi Julian,

I have a query . I want to purdata data from Infoview Reports BOXI R2 version .
First part
Do we have command to find the size of the report using query ?

Second Part
How to purse data from those report instance ?

By: Chinmay

Chinmay — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:40:34 +0000

Hi Julian,
I myself am an Admin to a BO XI R2 setup. I have a query regarding Import Wizard and importing /Exporting Universes. As you have sadi in your answer to Aravind’s query, importing changed Universes should be done by Import Wizard. I am however confused as to which options to select/deselect while Importing or Exporting ONLY Universes.
What I have is a Universe on Live, and the same Universe on another Server, but with a few new Objects added. Now I want to replace the Universe on Live with this one, but I do not want to export anything else with it, just the new objects. Could you shed some light on which options in Import Wizard would have what kind of effect??
Thanks
Chinmay