My Life With BusinessObjects

In a earlier post, I explained how to perform some basic customizations of InfoView and Web Intelligence for BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2 and XI 3.x on Microsoft Windows 2003 server. I’ve been doing a lot of Linux installs for BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2, so I thought I would take a minute to describe how to [...]

One of the advantages of having a personal blog like this one is that it gives you a space to write down stuff worth remembering that you might forget later. I have discovered that I’m usually not the only person having a problem getting something to work, and even a modest tip or trick is [...]

In the spirit of Orange County Choppers, I began this week with a need to customize Business Objects InfoView in support of customer requirements. The customer needed to alter their SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI 3.1 InfoView to remove a couple of unneeded menu choices: the Open menu (home of My InfoView and Encyclopedia) and the [...]

NOTE: This post was originally authored on 07/21/2008 and updated on 05/05/2009. Xcelsius 2008 provides a large collection of geographic maps for data mapping. One of the challenges with working with those maps is specifying the region key lookup codes for each state/province/country on the map. Beginning with Xcelsius 2008 SP1, the product includes a [...]

Displaying a prompt value on a BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report is pretty straightforward. Web Intelligence provides the UserResponse function to do this. string UserResponse(object data_provider; string prompt_text; Index) But notice that the data type returned by UserResponse() is always a string. What if you are trying to display a date? For example: UserResponse(“My Date Prompt”) [...]

A frequent reporting requirement is to display an organization’s logo as an image, such as a GIF, JPEG or PNG) on Web Intelligence documents. There are two ways to accomplish this task: 1. Place the file in a special images directory on the BusinessObjects Enterprise server2. Place the file on another web server Let’s look [...]