Business Objects System Reporting?

[Rogoflap]

Here we are running Business Objects Enterprise 3.0.

While it is pretty cool, I am wondering why it is so hard to manage. WE have lots and lots of reports scheduled and they use filters etc to decide who to email. I would like some Admin reports telling me what is going on with the system if that is possible.

Does anyone know of anything like that?


Is there a way to get a list of daily, weekly, monthly Business Object activities.

I mean how many reports were emailed? (Yesterday).

Or how about a list of all reports scheduled for a certain day?

List of e-mail addresses that emails are sent to?


Thanks,

Rog

 

[hilfy]

Do you have auditing turned on? If you do, you can run reports there on completed activities.

As far as looking at existing schedules, there are some third-party tools available that will do this. Also, I think there is a download available on BOB (

http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj/index.php)

that will show some of this information. You could also use the SDK to write something to give you this information. The SDK is not difficult to use, although the documentation is not the greatest.

-Dell

A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.

 

[Rogoflap]

Hilfy,

Thanks for the informaition. The SDK maybe the way to go. I did follow your link, but was unable to find the actual SDK. There was lots of info there, just no SDK files. I hope this isn't someething I have to pay for.

Roger

 

[hilfy]

The SDK comes with all versions of XI. If you have an earlier version of BOE, I think you have to purchase it. If you have XI r1 or r2, you have to use the server install and turn off everything except the "Developer Components" under the client portion of the install (the client tools install will automatically install a lot of things that you don't need.) If you have XI 3.0 or 3.1, you can use the client tools install and select just the developer components.

The SDK is available in .NET, Java, and COM flavors. If you would like to see some example code for how to use it, I have some available on my website:

http://www.geocities.com/geekgurl7/sample_code.html

-Dell

A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.