BusinessObjects

Background InfoBurst 2.6 has been servicing our customers’ report scheduling and bursting needs for 10 years. While it has served that purpose well, it was designed to service what are now legacy reporting environments like BusinessObjects XIR2. Current reporting platforms like SAP Business Intelligence 4.1 are not supported. It also …

Having antivirus software is great to maintain the immunity of a system, but in certain cases these AV softwares can start to over work themselves and it can really take a toll on the machine and can also affect the overall performance of Business Objects. I have seen clients face issues …

“Create a sales report by state, by city, by store, by year, by quarter, by month…” and the list goes on. This is a very common report requirement from a business. The usual procedure for designing this report in Web Intelligence is to create different reports for each dimension or …

Here is a sneak-peak of the InfoBurst® API to be presented in the Report Bursting, Scheduling, Delivery & Administration talk at the InfoBurst User Conference – IBIS 2013. Over 5 years ago we started to think about a new InfoBurst.  One that would take the years of experience that we’ve gathered since InfoBurst launched, and re-think …

Question: What is a Flash Variable connection and what is it used for?     Answer: Flash Variable connection is used to pass a variable from one dashboard or interface to the second dashboard.     Let us consider two dashboards here: a) Parent dashboard  – from which you will be passing a variable to the Child …

I recently heard a story on the radio about a farmer in England who had secretly built a castle behind a wall of haystacks so the local planning authority would not find out. He had been denied permission to build the castle but he did some research and discovered what …

Question: How can I set up our company logo, to appear in Web Intelligence, in the header? Answer: Since you cannot embed pictures and objects in Web Intelligence XIR2 and prior, they must be set up as images or skins available as a “Backgrounds” or “URL Links”.   To store …

Question: Our data is very sensitive and we’ve been asked to provide a warning to users accessing InfoView. Can I do this without using the SDK? Answer: Yes. This requires a modification of the InfoView configuration file for your web application server. For Tomcat, this configuration file is in: <BusinessObjectsInstallation>\Tomcat\webapps\businessobjects\enterprise115\ …

BusinessObjects users worldwide use the BusinessObjects Bulletin Board (affectionately named “BOB”) to learn from and about each other. BOB was created for and is maintained by individuals like you: people who want to get the most out of their investment in Business Objects products. BOB can be found at https://bobj-board.org/ …

Question: In XI R2, when I refresh Web Intelligence or Desktop Intelligence documents, that contain prompts with Lists of Values, I experience, long, sometimes unacceptable wait times until the prompts are displayed. What is the cause for this? Answer: The cause for this problem is the fact that the Lists …