The relation webiuniverse is parentchild, so webi is parent and universe is child. Using queries that are very similar to sql, you can tap the information hidden away there. Querying repository finding scheduled reports i think we can all agree that the administration tools provided by business objects lack alot of functionality. The following query may be handy if you already know the report name. On linux and mac os x systems, run sh sqldeveloper. Boe system, the metadata including report name, type, id, cuid, path, etc. Click here to order the latest business objects xi query builder guide. You cannot combine these two manners of construction.
You can add objects to and control the layout of dashboard pages. Navigate to folders then subfolders to find the reports you are. Find file path name from infoobject business objects. There is no direct way to get the the name of the folder from query builder.
I have gone through a few queries bt havent been able to find a result. Business objects business intelligence platform query builder business objects business intelligence platform query builder. Using a subquery sap businessobjects reporting cookbook. To list all the events and corresponding event file location. You do need to have some programming skills, but the documentation of business objects is quite good. Service methods for business objects in visual builder. Business objects query builder business objects boogle. I had to clear out the fields i had already defined on the advanced tab for the qb settings to be effective. Figure 1 shows a typical query in the query builder. Query builder in bo browse query bo repository dwbi. Warehouse builder creates item folders when you derive business definitions from warehouse design objects in your workspace, as described in deriving business intelligence objects. You can build and test the query in businessobjects query builder.
If it doesnt exist they need to create a new row with the data. For example, we want to generate a better analysis for the sales team and understand which types of cars were bought by the same client. The query builder can also be accessed from a previously definedsaved search folder. I am facing challenges in building a query using query builder to return scheduled reports in a folder. Using query builder to explore your businessobjects repository. I have a folder, say a which has sub folders in it.
The relations are useful if you need to find dependent objects in query builder. For example, the end of a business quarter may be a common time frame for many jobs. The query builder tool, enables you to query the full cms database and return meaningful results, dencrypting its contents. Informatino should include the report name, folder name, universe name, database it points to, data providers. Select default workspace folder the new projects will be created in this folder. This simple example would return all of the objects in the my folder folder. The rest api provided by the visual builder business objects supports this use case as long as you have the id of the record you want to update. Docker desktop for mac edge release notes docker documentation. A subquery is a querying technique designed for more complex business questions that require us to analyze them further and additional information based on the data retrieved the subquery technique is used to return data that will be used by the main query. Businessobjects query builder queries part ii sap blogs. Connection parameters for one or more database middleware. Builder can help you determine the values you will use to build your complete opendocument url. The sql statement must be specified in its entirety using either the searchsql helper methods or an independently constructed statement. This will be handy for those who searching for query builder queries.
I have the odbc source set up correctly on the business objects server, i can open the report on the server in crystal and refresh the. Query builder in bo browse query bo repository dwbi castle. Components of a business objects universe bi dw insider. Since the repository is what drives the entire businessobjects system, there is a lot to explore. Thats where business objects query builder comes in. Infoview introduction, web desktop overview, folders and categories. Dataconnection to find the universe connection name and the database version. Businessobjects deployment repository made up of set of tables to hold the information about the bi content. For example, if you want the objects in the folder, first you have to write a query to get the folder id, then use that id and get the object in that particular folder. If you could provide me the table name, column names and parameters it would be great if not the query. This new version includes numerous additions to bring the guide current up to business objects enterprise xi 3. Folder but it didnt return all of the folders that i have in ce. To access the query builder, point your web browser to your businessobjects server. Pages contain the columns and sections that hold the content of a dashboard.
Query builder business intelligence businessobjects. Hello techies, some of the query builder queries to explore the businessobjects repository. The query builder the query in figure 1 returns the name, id, cluster id, and package id of the web intelligence documents that are published on this. Every dashboard has at least one page, which can be empty. You can also manually create a customized item folder using the create item folder wizard or the data object editor. Query builder is one of the powerful administrative tools in business objects and its used to query your bo repository to get all kinds of. If you need to know which sql databases are being referenced then yes, this wont come from the activity universe. Installing sap crystal reports, version for the sap business one application. Helping teams, developers, project managers, directors, innovators and clients understand and implement data applications since 2009. For crystal enterprise the path is a bit different. Sap business objects, query builder, report properties.
How to use the or operator in outlook 2016 search folders. The object folderpath only gives the folder path if the object is a folder. All server trace files are located in the logging folder, for businessobjects xir2 the path is \ business objects \businessobjects enterprise 11. Path queries are very different from sql queries and they are basically written like this path. Thanks for your response, i tried the query which you provided but it did not me me any output, it just said 0 results.
So, with it, you can extract all instances, calculate the execution time creating a variable ad hoc in the report and obtain the max execution time you want. Default there are some tracing going on in the log folder but you can enable extended logging for every businessobjects server installed. But this may not solve my problem, you provide 3 possibilities, see my comments below. Every week a question arises that cant be answered by anything other than a query with query builder. Querying cms data on webi using sap bi platform cms system. In my view the folder structure that you see from cmcbi launchpad is pseudoreference to the physical path filestore folder path on the os server on which bo server is deployed. To get the all the public folders non system folders. The first thing needed is a iinfoobject for the webi report you are looking for. Use this sql inside query builder to see the object properties replacing with the actual cuid.
Logical path would be something like public folderssales reportsapac last. An object representing the location of a resource that bridges to url. I have a crystal xi report that works off of a foxpro datasource. Below is the list of all relations in businessobjects 4. Query builder requires no sdk development but can return pretty much anything an sdk query might return. This java application can extract the universe metadata into a json file from sap businessobjects. Sometimes its difficult to access information from cms database using query builder utility built in business objects, some details are not accessible this way at all. Business objects xi query builder path and relationship. Query builder queries for businessobjects this simple webapp can be used to query your businessobjects repository to get all kinds of information not readily available in other places such as the central management console. Hi, i have to get below details regarding reports available in business objects on production.
The output of any admintools query in business objects looks as follows. Also known as a semantic layer, the business objects universe is an intermediary layer between a database or data source and dependent reports, queries, or dashboards. Query builder is a web application to query business objects repository. Report name its path product type there are almost 300 reports in business objects 11 r2 sp1. However, for the purposes of development, you can use the helper methods to build the sql statement, then use the string method to get the sql statement string and further refine the sql. Webi report or publication inside the favorites folder, the object folderpath would be return a blank value. Sap businessobjects business intelligence suite document version. Fixed a bug that prevented users from changing the location of the vm disk image. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. Returns a list of reports that fall under a specific folder. If you want to find all webi documents parents that use. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number.
It provides information which cant be found in central management console cmc. Businessobjects universe connector for tableau with query builder starschemabusinessobjects universeextractor. This is done with the upsert option for a post call see the information about this combined insertupdate operation here. I need to see all of the folders that is being set up in the ce using the query builder. The dashboard builder lets you add dashboard pages to a dashboard and edit the pages in a dashboard. I would like to build a query to return all the scheduled reports belong to folder a. Sap business one administrators guide, version for sap hana. The universe is not in a folder no, reports using the same universe, one can get path, the other one cannot. Some of the query builder queries to explore the businessobjects repository. Net sdk to access cms information programmatically.
How to get all report available in business objects. Public folders \client portal\custom public folders client portal custom folder a several reports in these folders folder b folder n. The query builder is a tool that you can use to create ad hoc queries. While the query builder is a powerful tool, it has a few disadvantages. If you want to store queries and get the query results in ms excel, you can better use the business objects sdk in visual basic for applications vba. Metadata displayed for sap businessobjects enterprise objects. Using query builder we can find the location of the output file repository files. Path queries business objects query builder business. Identify problematic objects with query builder web. Objects that are grouped into classes and that map to either actual relational structures in the database such as columns, tables, database functions or actual olap structures such as datastores, info objects, info cubes, queries. The businessobjects repository is a database that contains all the information about the reports, universes, and security that make up your. The universe is in a folder that you dont have access to although you have access to the universe no, reports using same universe, which i have read and write privilege. From query builder you could get only the physical path of the bo report object not the pseudoreference.
Is there any way from that i can do this easily else manual work will take a. Fundamentally, the universe enables the enduser of business objects to interact with data without having to understand the complexities of database logic or be familiar with where the physical data is stored. Smart folder raw query for searching two folders in. The majority of the tables that make up the cms database can not be queried using sql directly against the database, since their content is held in a proprietary encrypted format. For example, if you want the objects in the folder, first you have to write a query to get the. Query builder in bo additional queries dwbi castle.
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