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* General Information
* Installation Issues
* Known Issues
* Limitations
* InfoView
* Web Servers Notes
* Browsers Notes
* Universal Access Java Applet


General Information

* Removed previously implemented fix

The following customer cases that were previously fixed with the Business Objects 5.1.4 / WebIntelligence 2.7 release were in fact not bugs in our product. By actually implementing them, it has caused various regressions in our product.

Bug Number: 1052246
Vantive Case(s): 302297148, 302299109, 302300760, 302300803, 302301216, 302303822, 302304099, 302304790, 302305595, 302306030, 302307448, 302307760, 302312619
In a WebIntelligence report that contains sections, some unnecessary HTML is generated.

Bug Number: 1049527
Vantive Case(s): 302272466, 302299924
In InfoView, when displaying in HTML a full client document, the cells that use data as char contain too many spaces at the end of the data.

For the Business Objects 5.1.8 / WebIntelligence 2.7.4 release, the fix that was previously implemented for each case was removed.

* Viewing charts in the PG32 graphic library

The PG32 graphic library for WebIntelligence is new in Service Pack 6; it enhances display and orientation of charts. This causes a lot of new behavior in charts; the following are new changes compared to previous versions of Service Pack 5.1/2.7:

* Getting Started with WebIntelligence Sample Documents

For users to be able to follow the Getting Started with WebIntelligence tutorial, you must do the following:

  1. Using Supervisor, create a user profile with both the user name and password as Student.
  2. Allow the Student profile access to the following:
  3. Select the following six sample documents located on the product CD in the WebI_Tutorial folder.
  4. The sample files are named:

    lesson1.wqy
    lesson2.wqy
    lesson3.wqy
    lesson4.wqy
    lesson5.wqy
    lesson6.wqy

  5. Copy the documents to the Student user storage folder on the server, located by default at:
  6. C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Server\WebIntelligence 2.5\Storage\user\Student
  7. Select the BusinessObjects file, Efashion.rep, from the following folder:
  8. C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects 5.0\UserDocs

  9. Copy this .rep file to the same Student user storage folder:
  10. C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Server\WebIntelligence 2.5\Storage\user\Student

These documents will now appear in the Personal Documents list when you log into InfoView as Student.

* Customizing Parameters

When downloading data from InfoView to CSV files it is now possible to change the decimal or field separating characters by creating a file wiqtinit.txt in the WebIntelligence repository.
To do this:

  1. Follow this path: < Installation repository of WebIntelligence>\Server\WebIntelligence 2.5\wiqt\Bin.
  2. Create a text file and call it wiqtinit.txt
  3. The file should have the following structure:
    [INIT]
    DecimSep=<
    Decimal separator>
    ListSep=<
    Field Separator>
  4. Save the file.
  5. Reboot the WebIntelligence server or WIQTManager to register your changes.

The <Decimal separator> characters can have the values: period (.) or comma (,).
The <Field Separator> characters can have the values: comma (,) or semicolon (;).

Note: Do not use the identical values for both the Decimal and Field separators at the same time.

* Customizing Login Error Messages

The ModifyWebIMsgs.html file contains instructions on how to perform this modification and is included in the first level of the Freeware folder of volume1 of the Product CD. The executable files are found within the InfoView folder located in the Freeware folder.

* Activate Fix for Bug #1055345

To activate the fix for Bug 1055345, which forces the shutdown of WIStorageManager, WIQT, WIGenerator, WIDispatcher, and BOMgr when CORBA shutdown does not work correctly, you must do the following:

Add a new key (a string value) for each process with its value in seconds in the Windows registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Business Objects/Shared/Administration Services/5.0/ <Name of the process>
Name of the key: WaitForCompletionTime=600

The default values (in seconds) are as follows:
- 900s for WIGenerator, WIDispatcher, WIStorageManager, BOManager (tunable)
- 300s for WIQT (hard coded - cannot be modified)

* Issue Related to the Fix Implemented for Bug #1080486

With Service Pack 9, if you publish a full client document with the option "Store HTML in document", your document may display a bit differently in WebIntelligence. Before Service Pack 9, the display of such documents was done by WIQT. Now, this task is done by the BusinessObjects processes. Depending on your server tuning and the ratio of such documents in your repository, it may have a significant impact on your server activity, as the BusinessObjects processes are mono task. To avoid an overload of the BusinessObjects processes, you may want to increase the "Max. number of busy processes" and "Max. number of loaded processes" parameters of the BOManager. 
Note: The first time you access the document from the server, you may experience a slow response time. 

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Installation Issues

*  Updating to a Service Pack

* Installing WebIntelligence in a folder other than C:\Program Files


Known Issues

* Separator in prompts

* Number length limitations in WebIntelligence documents

*  Using two prompts with the same name

*  Drag and drop in Netscape 4.7 on Windows 2000-SP2 Client

*  Euro symbol on MacOS

*  Documentation

*  Internal Trace

*  Port Translation

* Starting

* Opening

* Standard HTML Viewer

* Scheduler

* Table Formatting

* Drill Mode

* WebIntelligence Unresponsive

* Documents

General

BusinessObjects

Document in Drill Mode

Security Issues

InfoView

General

ActiveX Report Viewer

Documents

Publishing or scheduling

Uploading Documents

WebIntelligence

Documents

* Browser

* Logging into WebIntelligence in a Netscape Browser

* Security Commands

* Miscellaneous

* Repository Restriction

During setup it is possible to identify the directory location of the BOMain.key file. UNC is not supported in identifying the location of this file.
However, if UNC was already chosen in the setup, you can change it in the following manner:

* BusinessQuery Documents

* WebIntelligence Documents

* BusinessObjects Documents

* Printing

* Authentication

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Limitations

* Aggregation of duplicated values in a WebIntelligence query

* InfoView Query Panel limited to 256 objects in WebPanel

* Administration

* Setup

* Browser

* Queries

* WebIntelligence and other products

* "Business Objects Standard" authentication method under IIS 4.0

*  My InfoView

*  Security Limitations

*  BusinessObjects 5i

*  Automatic Web Server configuration

       Possible problem with automatic configuration of Microsoft IIS4

*  Stopping WebIntelligence

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InfoView

* ActiveX ReportViewer

* WebIntelligence Document Viewers and Web Servers Using CGI Mode

* Inbox documents

* InfoView options page and Edit Documents user rights

* BusinessQuery Documents

* Download as PDF

* Changing prompt values when publishing or scheduling

* Windows 2000 Plug-in support

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Web Server Notes

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Browser Notes

In your Microsoft browser, you need to add the following information in View/Options/Programs/File Types:
For Microsoft Excel Comma Separated Values File:   extension:   CSV.
Content Type:  text/csv
Open with:  Excel

  • Certain patches for updates of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 can make download of the full and light Java applets from the Business Objects server impossible if JVM (Java Virtual Machine) 3805 is used. There is no problem if JVM 3810 is used. Therefore you should use JVM 3810 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.
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    Universal Access Java Applet

    The Universal Access Java applet for InfoView and WebIntelligence contains accessibility features that are compliant with Section 508 of the 1998 U.S. Rehabilitation Act.

    Information about the accessibility features are contained in the Appendices A in the InfoView User's Guide and the WebIntelligence User's Guide.

    Note:  The Universal Access Java Applet is only available in English.

    * Installation Notes

    * Limitations

    * Known Issues

    Jaws

    * InfoView

    * Browser Notes

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