Bringing Together HTML Controls and Crystal Reports Every once in a while I get a chance to present in a forum or user group and show some new amazing capabilities in the product suite. Last year I had the chance to demonstrate WebElements. WebElements is a collection of Crystal functions which generate HTML. An easy […]
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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 […]
Looking for an Xcelsius 2008 Best Practices Guide?
I think I may have found what you are looking for. This is an excellent guide that you can use to bring best practices to all your Xcelsius work. This 16 page guide is an well thought out guide for using standard around colors, data organization, testing, etc. Implementing these best practices will undoubtedly improve […]
Set Analysis Part 5b: Custom Groups in WebIntelligence
So how we do do this exactly? How can I use BusinessObjects to create custom groups on-the-fly? How can I get beyond my requirements for multi-pass SQL and speed up my reports? The answer is Sets. Set Data All the information regarding sets is located is the tables called sets_*. The most important tables are: […]