By Rainer Stropek on 10/2/2006

If you have to implement a large number of standard reports in BusinessObjects (BO), it is important to define a set of quality criteria. In this article I want to suggest such criteria. They are focused on reporting implemented with BO but I am sure that you can use a similiar quality checklist for other report generators. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 9/26/2006

Regularly I have to refresh a set of BusinessObjects XI 2 (BOXI 2) Desktop Intelligence reports. This can be a boring task. Therefore I have written a short VBA macro that is able to refresh a list of reports specified in an Excel worksheet and export them into PDF files. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 2/19/2006

cubido bietet in Kombination mit dem SLG-Produkt "WR2005" BusinessObjects als ASL-Version ("Application Service License"; anwendungsgebundene Installation) an. Dieser Blog-Artikel fasst zusammen welche Module bei der Full-Client Installation zu aktivieren sind. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 10/16/2005

On my personal hitlist of errors IIS's "Internal Server Error" is my favorite one! A few days ago I had to install WebI 6.5.1 on Windows Server 2003. There it was again... Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 10/8/2005

BusinessObjects knows two important key-files: The license key file and the bomain.key file. What are they for and where do you have to put them? Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 9/4/2005

No question, BusinessObjects 6.5.x is a great product - from a users' perspective. However, I have to admit that there are other products that are easier to install. Over the years I have developed my own little "How-To-Install-Web-Intelligence-Checklist" for ASP-based installations on Win2k and Win2003. I want to share it with you. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 8/27/2005

RunningSum is an important function when building reports using BusinessObjects (BO). However, using this function can be a little bit tricky. Read More »