Business Intelligence with SAP Business Objects 4.3

Geomap report on the latest SAP BI MOBILE APP 4.4.18 Environment BOE XI 3.1 SP 4 compared to the SAP BI Mobile app Vers 4.4.12 the last version 4.4.18 has a great improvement  because supports many functions witch were not before. You can Enable alerters (for geo-analysis) by adding the suffix “ca1” in the table (report block) Name.  For example, if  the block Name in Web Intelligence is map_lt3_lo4_poi2_od5; you need to update the name  to: map_lt3_lo4_poi2_od5_ca1. So in this version you can assign to a measure a specific colour in order to remark different measures  (as you can see from the following images) The Webi Report sholud have the following structure: assigning a different colour to each indicators will be displayed in Ipad as POI that change colour on selecting a different measure: You can also regroup all the measures related to the POI by adding  the suffix  “gp1...

Working on BI Mobile Geomap for Ipad on BOE XI R3.1 SP 4 APP VERSION 4.1.2 Supportef for iOS 5.1. Creating simple reports on WebI with a specific Syntax name of block you create let you have pretty cool report to be used on Mobile device, in our case IPad but the result (except layout) is the same also on Android tablets. In the following image you can see a geomap report with two measures, you can switch between them   using the pop up that is open on cliccking on the firts measure exposed : Quantity and Amout on supplier pricelist Moreover  you can add open document to a Google map POI, so if you tap on one of the POI a link will pop up and selecting it you will open another SAP BI mobile report. Ahead I will show how do to this on WebI. Read related posts: Geomap on latest sap bi mobile Ipad App Opendoc syntax in Sap Bi mobile Sap BI mobile guide

Internal error  [ RCIRAS0216 ] (Error: INF ) Please contact your system administrator. Environment BOE XI 3.1 Deski report with Zabo  on Windows 2008 R2  Case: We had this exception after changing from Zabo a Deski option on saving the report, we checked the option 'Refresh on opening' the report. After exporting in the CMS the report on opening it we had the above exception Solution We imported the report on Deski,  choosig the BO system with  (J2EE Portal) ,  we save it  again by checking the option 'Refresh on opening'  and we re-exported it. After this the issue was resolved. See also: Errors list - Solutions

SAP Mobile BI Server and the new  BI 4.1 New features CMC & Launchpad Integration: Allows Configuring Secury Policies via CMC ( Before you needed a config file in the application server now settings are in CMC) You can enable mobile documents through Launchpad properties; right click on the document to get mobile properties dialog, including “time to live”. Allows Configuring Categories for Content Management via CMC Ability to Mobile Enable and Management Document Properties via Launchpad Support for Auditing user actions from Mobile devices Enhancement to Logging Framework and Perfomance Improvements SAP BO MOBILE Connectivity Options Read aslo: http://businessobjectsbi4.blogspot.it/2013/03/sap-bi-mobile-security-concepts.html http://businessobjectsbi4.blogspot.it/2013/03/dashboards-on-businessobjects-mobile-bi.html http://businessobjectsbi4.blogspot.it/2012/09/sap-bi-mobile-guida-pratica.html

Finally has arrived: BusinessObjects Mobile BI 4.4 wich allows to access to Dashboards on Mobile device and so on IPad and Android Tablet and phones. Dashboard for SAP BI Mobile supported features: Connectivity: through Query Panel on Universes on Query Bex (SAP BW) on Hana Universes Components: Labels Images component Combo box Label based Menu Radio button Scorecard List View Icons Slider Progress Bar Toggle button Push button Charts: Column Chart Bar Chart Pie Chart Line Chart Combination Chart Stacked Bar Chart Stacked Column Chart Gauge Containers: Tab Set Canvass Container Component Groups Please Note that at the moment Prompt component is not available. You will find not compatible components and features on the Compatibility Panel. Keep following the blog for further details and update! Read also Sap Dashboards for ipad Sap BO Dashboards 4 new features

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 s...

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 !