

Installation Issues
Known Issues
Limitations


Configuration Support
The
Product Availability Report (PAR) contains detailed up-to-date information on
supported:


Compatibility with other
versions of BusinessObjects
- Using this version, you can
open and work with documents created with any 4.0.x
version of BusinessObjects. You cannot edit and refresh a
document created with a 4.1.3 version without the CSP 31.
Databases designed
with Oracle OLAP applications
- The Express OLAP Access Pack
looks for certain dimension properties (see list) to
identify the Express tables that define the STANDARD and
DEFAULT hierarchies. This is the standard design for
Oracle Express databases designed with Oracle Express
OLAP tools, such as Oracle Express Administrator. If the
Express OLAP Access Pack does not find these properties,
it looks for hard-coded tables made from the
concatentation of the dimension-id and the names of these
properties.
Databases designed with Oracle OLAP applications such as
Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA)/Oracle Sales Analyzer
(OSA) may have different designs that are not supported.
The Express DBA must ensure that the tables that the
Express OLAP Access Pack looks for exist in the Express
database. The list of dimension properties follows:
"idcode"
"parentrel"
"depth"
"hierdim"
"leveldim"
"leveldepth"
"leveldesc"
"hierdefault"
Running Queries in Personal
Oracle Express 6.3
You cannot run queries using Personal Oracle
Express 6.3. You need to create a local Oracle Express server. To do this:
- Select Oracle Express Server
The Select a Connection panel appears.
- Enter a connection name, for example
'personal' and click Edit.
The Edit Connection to Oracle Express Server dialog box appears.
- Select Express Server 6 from the Server
version drop-down list.
- Select ncalrpc from the Transport
drop-down list.
- Type the name of the machine on which you
installed Personal Express 6.3 in the Host text box. Click OK.
- Leave the User Name and Password text boxes
empty. Click Next.
- Select the database you want to access to
- Click in the Password text box, but do not
enter any text.
- Click Finish.
You are now connected to Personal Oracle Express 6.3 and can create a query.


Express SNAPI / RSNAPI
- If, during a request,
Personal Express does not respond, then BusinessObjects
will freeze. You will have to stop the application using
CTRL+ALT+DEL.
- If during a request, Oracle
Express Server does not respond, you will have an
infinite loop of general error messages. You will have to
stop BusinessObjects using CTRL+ALT+DEL.
- You cannot attach a database
on Personal Express if it is already attached by another
product (Oracle Express Administrator or Oracle Express
Analyzer).
- If BusinessObjects fails
during a request on an Oracle Express Server 5.0.x (with
RPC daemon), then the instance server is not closed. The
server administrator has to stop it.
- If a connection between
BusinessObjects and an Oracle Express Server 5.0.x is
already established, BusinessObjects will stop when you
try to establish a second connection if the RPC daemon is
no longer running.
Unix
- Database names are
case-sensitive under Oracle Express Server on UNIX.
OLAP Panel
- BusinessObjects does not
support Oracle Express number formats. For example,
BusinessObjects does not restrict the number of decimal
digits, whereas Oracle Express does.
- The format for date and
number measures in the Grid and in the report is defined
in the Windows Control Panel (Regional Settings).
- BusinessObjects uses the
default Oracle Express hierarchy. If it does not
exist, use the "STANDARD" hierarchy.
- Characters are translated
from OEM to ANSI for Personal Express. For Oracle Express
Servers (5 or 6) no translation is made. Therefore,
if you need to translate characters for a server you can
add in the BO/OraExp/Busobj.ini file the entry for your
server : SERVERCHARSET=OEM
- BusinessObjects does not
support dimensions with no values.
- BusinessObjects does not
support variables defined with zero dimensions.
- BusinessObjects does not
support Oracle Express relations.
- Non-visible objects are not
displayed in the Database Outline.
- The pop-up menu can take a
long time to appear when you click the right mouse button
in the Grid.
- It is possible to add a
measure in the Grid, even if it is a measure that should
not be added; for example a measure whose dimensions have
no values or unsupported values. This can occur when
there is already a measure in the Grid.
- In some databases created
without the Oracle Express Administrator, hierarchies
might be flattened and the "Long labels" option
might not work.
- On some Express databases, it
is not possible to read the Express Long Name.
Add/Remove Panel
- Before you add (or remove) a
member by drag and drop, you must set the focus on the
target in the available members tree list. If you do not,
the operation is undone.
Report
Data Provider
- BusinessObjects might fail if
you generate a very large report, depending on your swap
disk size. You can calculate the maximum number of cells
you can retrieve: one cell takes an average of 300 bytes.
To know the number of cells you are going to retrieve,
use the Warn if number of cells exceeds option in
the OLAP Panel Option.
- The '#OlapAll' reserved value
used by BusinessObjects to designate the aggregated value
returned from the server does not appear in a report,
even though it is available in the Filters dialog box
(Filters command, Format menu). However, '#OlapAll' does
appear when you export data to other file formats, for
example, to Excel.
- When you edit or refresh an
existing OLAP data provider on a database whose outline
has been modified or whose tags have been changed, you
need to be aware of the following:
- If you define an automatic
refresh for a data provider (using the Automatic Refresh
available in the Data Manager), do not try to activate
the View Data button, the Refresh button or the Edit Data
Provider button during the data provider refresh.
- Filters on values that have
been modified in the Outline are deleted from the OLAP
Panel.
- If the changes to the Outline
affect dimensions or measures that were placed in the
Grid, the OLAP Panel is unavailable.
Report
- If you define an alerter on
the time dimension with a condition such as greater than
'Jun,' then the highlighted months are selected on the
first alphabetical sort letter. That means Mar, May, Nov,
Oct, Sep will be selected.
- If you want to change the
query in a report, reload the OLAP Panel. To be sure to
generate a correct report, select the "Display
the new data in a new report" option in the Modified
Data Provider dialog box.
- Ranking applied on
ServerValue( ) returns erroneous values.
- Some variable names are not
updated when you change to long, short or value labels.
- If you applied filters in the
report and change the labels you're using, you'll have an
empty report. The filters definitions are not changed
(i.e., the filters are applied using the previous
values); therefore you need to change the definitions
yourself.
- Some cells might contain
#SYNTAX after you edited a data provider and removed
dimension values.
- You are not prompted for the
database password when you select the Automatic Refresh
option. You'll have to enter this password when the first
refresh is done.
- Applying a filter on the
ServerValue in the Slice and Dice Panel might not work.
To work around this issue, apply the filter via the
Filter button in the Report toolbar.
- Measures of date and text
type are interpreted as dimensions (BusinessObjects
terminology) when inserted in a document microcube.When
you insert a measure of date type in the down edge and
then run the query, the resulting report is a very big
crosstab (in fact, if a measure was inserted in the body,
it will be aggregated).
- An application crash might
occur if you try to apply a Change Source on an OLAP
document whenever you use a version of BusinessObjects
without OLAP Express access.
