Recent content by bmacman

FYI... There will be a Pre-Conference training class that will focus on migrating 5.x/6.x Business Objects to Business Objects XI Release 2 at the International Users Conference in Orland this year.

I think you all will be presently suprised with XI. I was part of the beta team and it is very cool. You are correct. If you are up to date on Maintenance, they you can upgrade to XI.

There is an option labeled "Faster Document Viewing Over The Web" within "Publish To>Corporate Documents>Schedule", which "caches" the report for quicker retrieval by the end user. I am using VBA macros in the report and this over-rides this parameter. Does anyone know how to code this into a...

Pabloj... you are right..sorry. I was actually in the process of laying out all the details when you responded. Thanks for your help. In case you still want to know, here are my specs: Web portal server: IBM RS/6000 AIX 5.2 4x650 16gb Apache 2.0 We have 2 WebIntelligence WebLogic...

Fortunately we are on UNIX :-)

Sorry... 2.7.2

Hello all, Can anyone give me any info on how to authenticate a Webi session via LDAP? Thanks B

Cla1re, If I understand you question correctly, you want to know how to change a report to point to a different universe. This can be done by clicking on the data manager button (looks like a Rubix cube) and then clicking on the definition tab and then click on the button next to the universe...

Is it possible to include the "Administrator" login name and the Administrator "Password" to use for the installation of a package that needs admin rights on the PC, but the users are not local admins? If so, how is that done. Thanks B

Can anyone help me with the command line parameters that will enable me to have a ZABO Silent Install? I have set up a share on my server where the Zabo installation files are located. Here is the command that I am trying to use \\servername\zabo\setup.exe -key <key num> -rdbmskey <rdbmskey...

I am getting a headache from banging my head against the wall. I am in the process of writing my first SMS Installer package to distribute to my user group. What I am trying to accomplish is an uninstall of a software product which can be executed via command line from a dos prompt with the...

I am fairly new to the creation of SMS packages and I need a little help with a couple of things, if anyone could please help. 1) The package will be doing an Uninstall of old version of software and an install of new version. Before I uninstall old version, I need to backup a directory on...

Is there a way with SMS installer to check and see if a user is a local administrator on their machine before the installation of a package? Please help B

Is it possible to apply a sort at an object level in the universe so that when a report uses that object, a custom sort will be applied at the universe level? I know that it can be done at the report level, but I will have to modify 150 report if it can not done at a universe level. Let me...

Thank you... I already tried the refresh structure feature and that did not do the trick... I will look into the possibility of a customised strategy file. thanks B