Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Business Objects 6.5 install

Move BO6.5 to C:

Point to licfiles below BO6.5 hierarchy: C:\BO6.5\LicFiles\licfiles. Click on Check License. This will show a list of valid licenses.

Desktop Installation.

After install - go to Supervisor. Click on Admin. Begin. Default Installation.

Supervisor: super, letmein

Setup. Microsoft. Access 2000. ODBC Driver. Select efashion in dropdown. Next. Test connection.

Finally, we get an error:

Creating security domain...
create table OBJ_M_ACTOR (M_ACTOR_N_ID LONG , M_ACTOR_N_TYPE LONG , M_ACTOR_N_LEVEL LONG , M_ACTOR_C_NAME TEXT(70) , M_ACTOR_C_PASSWORD TEXT(70), M_ACTOR_N_AUTID LONG , M_ACTOR_N_LAD LONG , M_ACTOR_N_LAT LONG , M_ACTOR_N_STATUS LONG , M_ACTOR_N_ENDING LONG, M_ACTOR_N_CNTDOWN LONG )

MasterRepository () function fail:
SQL.MASTER.Create.Table.Actor
42000:[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Cannot modify the design of table 'OBJ_M_ACTOR'. It is in a read-only database.

Cannot create security domain. (ADW0020)


And.. Add a System DSN. Select Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb). Data Source Name: efashion_training. Click on Create. Database name: efashion_name.mdb, create a new folder BO6.5 under My Documents and save it there.

Now, lets start again from Supervisor. Continue. Select default for bomain.

If pwd incorrect 3 times, super is locked out. Create another.

User. Give name (supervisor). Properties. Groups and Profile tab. Select General Supervisor. Change password. Check both logins.

1 comment:

Idler said...

Make sure that BO6.5 is copied to your local disk and installed from there. Otherwise, you will see some post installation issues regarding license.