Are you used to the new Xcelsius 2008 yet? The release of SP1 has definately been a big improvement. Like many others, I struggled with the new and improved Xcelsius. There were a few too many quirks for me and until the release of SP1, I went back to Xcelsius 4.5. Besides the fact that […]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Crystal Reports Embedded And Its Limitations
So you may be asking… What is Crystal Reports Embedded? Crystal Reports embedded is an architecture which allows the Crystal Reports Rendering engine to run within the confides of the application environment. BusinessObjects provides a .NET runtime and a Java Report Component (JRC) which allows developers to embed Crystal Reports in their applications. Crystal Reports […]
Manually Starting Services
Even though the SIA has been setup to automatically start services, another alternative is to control the starting of these services through scripts. One colleague of mine setup his BusinessObjects Enterprise SIA so that only the CMS and the FRS Input and Output services started up automatically. All other services were setup to start manually. […]
How does your SIA start?
If you are running a development environment in which you have the BusinessObjects XI 3.0 server running on the same physical box as your BusinessObjectcs repository, you have run into a common problem. In XI 3.0, the SIA is dependent on the repository and if the repository database is unavailable the SIA will failed to […]