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Hello Paul Thanks for your suggestion. It was the second voice mentioning Alias tables, so I'll try it out. We will also resort to creating local conditions in the report itself, instead. Rgds M

Hello I have a column in my table containing a code. Depending on this code I know witch value in the corresponding row of the corresponding column must be selected. I have defined 2 variations on this @Select condition object. The problem arises when I want to execute a query to select both...

Hi A User gets oracle listener error message when a certain number of users is exceeded in WebI 2.7 Has anyone else come across this problem - is there a parameter which limits the number of clients a listener can service, can it be adjusted? I'd be grateful for any suggestions Maiden

Hi Has anyone got any experience of using LoadRunner in conjunction with a WebI installation? Maiden

Hi Kris For Web Deployments consider the following: · The number of documents · The user activity · The distribution of components · Intranet verses Extranet It is highly recommended that all servers used in the Business Objects system be dedicated to the server application it is running. This...

Hi How can I create a universe filter object which can make use of a UserResponse to a prompt for a date entry? Example: I open a report; as report prompt: year entry; the entered year is joined with a calculation (>= [User-Response] -5) --> Example: User entry: 1999 Now all records are shown...

Variables LastExecutionTime() and LastExecutionDate()can be included per data cube. Many people want to have a Last Refresh date option , that is not based on the individual data providers , but on the report as a whole. This is not possible with the LastExecution Date as this is per data...

Hi John, Yes, it's confusing. The best way to check what the defaults are for the Webi module, is to click on the user and Webi, then apply the button 'Apply Predefined Settings' because then when you click on the Query and Web Panel module, you can at least see the Disabled status for some of...

Hi There is are a few guides I've obtained: one is called Global Deployment Strategies for Business Objects 2000. It covers: ❑ Overview of Sample Business Objects Environment ❑ Architecture and Repository Deployment Scenarios Scenario 1: Centralized architecture Scenario 2...

The default value for all security command is enabled. Here is a quote of the the supervisor PDF guide, page 183 (Chapter 7 /Assigning BusinessObjects Products to Users) Inheritance of command restrictions Before any command restrictions are made, security commands for all users and groups...

Hi I have problems with the Document Exporter tool. I use Tomcat for both Web and Application server. All configured ok. I have installed Auditor about 4 times and only one machine has let me export the indicators using the wizard - all the others fail. Manually it works fine. At the moment...

Hi Does anyone know how to generate a GROUP BY in a report SQL which runs in the background due to the fact that the group by object has not been included in the Query? Cheers InDistress

With regards to XML support for next major versions of BO products, there is nothing definate indicated, however they are looking at support with respect to : - XML as a data source - Supporting an XML query language (XQL, XML-QL, XQuery) - Generating XML from their SDK - Using XML internally...

Hi Can anyone recommend the best way to bucket an object like 'Age Group' apart from the usual CASE or DECODE methods? I guess data can be split into a chart like a scatter graph but then BO would need a variable like a prompt which would ask cust to enter a value as a unit for the X-axis scale...

As technical support would have informed you, you cannot suppress the security which is built into the product. Working offline still means that you make use of the objects.lsi file and the encrypted pre-defined user restrictions, as each user needs to log in once before they can log in...