Hi,
As i am aware, you can hit a BW Infocube directly from Reporter using the access licenses or directly from Designer.
Are there additional ways to report against an Infocube?
Can someone share same documentation or previous experience in working with Designer on the cube directly?
Best Regards,
Gilad
gweinbach 
(BOB member since 2004-06-25)
Which version of BO ?
Sachin J 
(BOB member since 2005-09-23)
Hi,
Version 5.16 or 6.5.1, both of them are fine.
BR,
Gilad
gweinbach (BOB member since 2004-06-25)
Hi
I have a question on SAP B/W. Currently, our company is using SAP B/W cubes for our backend. I wanted to create a universe in xi r2. I was able to install the SAP Integration kit (Adapter) which i assume would connect sap cubes to the universe. When i created the universe though, the classes and objects were generated in the universe but it seems they are all disabled. Also i seem to have no access rights whatsoever. I do not know if i am doing something wrong or there is really a limitation of using cubes for BO XI.
regards,
Antz
antzcp04 (BOB member since 2006-08-04)
Antz,
Is the SAP Integration Kit a piece of software you need to license from BO? Or is it a download?
Can you clarify?
Regards,
Gili
gweinbach (BOB member since 2004-06-25)
This is another product of Business Objects that you must aquire that is not downloadable for free.
thanks,
Antz
antzcp04 (BOB member since 2006-08-04)
Thanks for your reply.
I will be happy to be posted if you find a resolution.
Did you open a case with Support?
Regards,
Gili
gweinbach (BOB member since 2004-06-25)
Did you also have the transports done to the SAP BW environment? It’s not enough to just do the BusObj client and BusObj server installs.
Dwayne Hoffpauir 
(BOB member since 2002-09-19)
Dwayne,
That’s a good point you are raising.
What do you mean by doing transports in the BW side?
Please clarify,
Gilad
gweinbach (BOB member since 2004-06-25)
It means that we have probably found the problem smile. To truly take advantage of the SAP Integration Kit, there is BusObj code that must be loaded in your SAP environment. Moving things into an SAP environment is called a transport. Look at the readme / installation information that came with the SAP Integration Kit for details.
Dwayne Hoffpauir (BOB member since 2002-09-19)
Now the thing is clear.
I am sure you know that in SAP the word transport means the moving of a customization or query object between the different instances in the landscape (DEV, QA and PROD), and it’s not related whatsoever to the data itself. That’s why the “transport” error BO displays is in my opinnion misleading. I now understand that some code needs to be loaded to the BW instance and then “transported”.
Thanks for the clarification gentlemen.
Good Weekend,
Gili
gweinbach (BOB member since 2004-06-25)
Dwayne,
Regarding your comment.
“To truly take advantage of the SAP Integration Kit, there is BusObj code that must be loaded in your SAP environment.” . Does this (file? /code) include in the sap integration kit that was installed? How is this implemented ? Would this solve the unaccesible universe?
antz
antzcp04 (BOB member since 2006-08-04)
The bits to be transported are included on the installation media, and are listed specifically in the readme / installation guides. I wasn’t involved with the transports myself when we did some high-level testing, but I do remember my technical folks having a fit getting the correct privileges set up on the SAP side.
Some background. Yes, there are more generic ways of communicating with SAP. The term ODBO comes to mind, but I might be wrong. In any case, these “generic” methods are terribly inefficient. Unusable would be a more accurate term for all but the simplest applications.
Now enter Crystal. Even before Business Objects’ purchase of Crystal Decisions, some version of Crystal was embedded in SAP. Translation, a deeper knowledge of the SAP inner workings, and the ability to develop a more optimized way to communicate, using native SAP BAPIs, etc. That “inside” knowledge has evolved into the SAP Integration Kit, and also helps understand why code has to be loaded on the SAP side to take best advantage.
I’ve now reached the end of my expertise (ahem) on the SAP Integration Kit. Feel free to post follow up questions, but I’m pretty sure someone else will have to answer them 
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Dwayne Hoffpauir (BOB member since 2002-09-19)
In the installation guide for the SAP integration kit, it didn’t specify if I needed to do the transports to build universes using the BW Universe Builder. Most of the guide seems to talk about hitting the cubes directly or off infosets & queries. Has anyone had experience building universes from BW infocubes? Are the SAP transports really required to be able to build a universe off SAP BW?
router79 (BOB member since 2007-07-24)
There are two sets of transport files, which can be used with BusinessObjects Enterprise Integration Kit for SAP. One set is ANSI and the other set is Unicode enabled.
The set of transports you must use depends on the BASIS system your SAP system is running on. Additionally, each transport consists of a data file and a cofile, which are listed in brackets behind the transport names.
If your SAP system is running on a BASIS system earlier than 6.20, you must use the files listed below:
(These files are ANSI.)
If your SAP system is running on a 6.20 BASIS system or later, you must use the files listed below:
(These files are Unicode enabled.)
The following files must be used on an SAP BW system:
(These files are Unicode enabled.)
this is snatched from one of the install txt files… We have the same problem and will hopefully find out if installing the transport files helps today…
will be back with more info
DavidBB@DK (BOB member since 2007-12-20)