Business Intelligence with SAP Business Objects 4.3

SAP BI MOBILE SECURITY DMZ and Firewall Support in the Mobile System Infrastructure A DMZ, or “De militarized Zone”, is a physical or logical subnetwork that contains and exposes an organization's external services to a larger untrusted network, usually the Internet. The purpose of a DMZ is to add an additional layer of security to an organization's local area network (LAN).  The SAP BusinessObjects Mobile server supports deployments in the DMZ environment.   The SAP BusinessObjects Mobile client on the extranet interacts with the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform server on the intranet using the DMZ environment. To enable this deployment, perform the following steps: 1. Configure the -requestPort and -port parameters for the following servers: • CMS (for authentication, querying InfoStore, and browsing the repository) • Web intelligence report server • Adaptive processing server 2. Open the listening ports (-requestPort parameter) for the se

Err WIO 00002 - Cannot open the hyperlink Environment BOE XI R3.1 SP 4 Cause The URL in the hyperlink is incorrectly constructed. The hyperlink references a document in a “CMC”. Documents in a “CMC” are not always accessible from Web Intelligence Rich Client for two reasons: The hyperlink does not specify the name of the server hosting the document because the Use complete URL path to build document hyperlink setting is not selected. Incomplete URLs are invalid when used outside InfoView. The hyperlink builds the complete URL, but the server specified in the URL is not accessible from the computer running Web Intelligence Rich Client. Action We corrected the hyperlink syntax as follow http://BOserver:8080/ OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?iDocID=AXMjJh.aOSZGpYx29mOaSmU&sIDType=CUID&sRefresh=Y&lsSNazione=FRANCIA

 Set connection for SAP BI MOBILE in IPAD in order to access to mobile reports. Envirnoment BO XI R3.1 SP 4 In order to connect SAP BI MOBILE on BO server you need to go on Connection  and set: Connection Name Server Url: (BO server IP  insert also the port number) CMS Name Authentication: Enterprise  Read also: Sap Bi mobile security concepts Sap Bi mobile reports

WebI Query Panel -JRE error with Firefox 3.6.28 on Windows 7 on opening WebI Query Panel Environment  BO XI R3.1 SP 4 Client:  Windows 7 In order to resolve this issue:  go in the Java Control Panel and set the options as in the following images Enable Java system

WIS 30286 You do not have access to one or more data providers; only the ones to which you have access will be refreshed. Do you want to continue? Environment XI R 3.1 SP 4 Cause: The problem is due to the missing  access rights to the universe for a specific user  Solution: We solved this issue by giving to the user  the right to access to related Universes !

 WIS 30951 -The document can't be retrieved from the File Repository Server. Contact your System administrator Environment BO XI R3.1 SP 4 Solution: 1. You can try to  restart Tomcat  and BO Servers and this operation  could resolved the  error. 2. The problem was due to the low available space on the disk where FRS is. So after freeing the disk space this problem was solved.

How to enable/disable automerge demension on WebI report Envirnonment BO XI 3.1 SP 4 In edit mode, right click in the report and go to document properties. Check if Auto merge dimension option is selected or not. Also check that if you have right to merge dimensions or not (See the following image). Moreover you should checked on CMC that  the related security in Access Levels in the CMC  option is enabled. I want to know if there are special requirements for the dimensions to be able to be auto-merged, next to having the same name and being of the same type. Keep in mind that: Webi Intelligence can merge dimensions automatically in the following cases: • The dimensions have the same name • The dimensions have the same data type • The dimensions are in the same universe