BOBJ BI4.2 User List and Group Extraction (via SPA)

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#1

Hello all,

I want to make a dedicated topic for this little tool that I have developed, coming from this post BOXI UserList & Group Extraction. It’s not a download, but as it can replace a previous tool coming from the downloads I think it deserve it 's own topic :wink:

Introduction

I have created a very simple SPA (Single Page Application) powered by React.js that consume BOBJ REST api. It is designed to extract the complete list of users and groups, I have tested it for systems with around 5,000 users.

How to use it

Go to this application:
http://tools.bobj-board.org/

Provide your BOBJ dns (where your REST api is hosted, it is just adding :6405/biprws to generate the API endpoint), your BOBJ user and your BOBJ password (currently it work only using Enterprise authentication)

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Then click on Connect. It will call the right endpoint directly from your computer (no BOBJ data is sent over internet), and populate the user and group table below.

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Then you can use the extracted data within any tool you want (copy paste to Excel for example).

Motivation ?

I have created by the past a similar tool (BOXI UserList & Group Extraction) based on Microsoft Excel, using VBA to consume BOBJ API. Today I do not have anymore Office on my laptop but still working with BOBJ, and I have some skills in frontend development using React.js. It’s an opportunity to test such application that does not rely on any backend (except your BOBJ REST API) :wink:

Questions ?

Let me know in this thread if this tool have helped you, if you have any issue with it. Thanks for your feedback, I will look forward to enhance it !

  • BOBJ version: The tool have been tested on BI4.2 SP7 and SP8. I think it work starting from BI4.2 SP0.
  • Tracker: A Google Analytics tracker is installed to let me know how many user have used the tool, and how many fail/success login it generate. The tracker does not not track any BOBJ related information (system, user, password, user or group extracted)
  • Source Code: Code is available here, under MIT license. Let me know if you re-use this work, I will be happy to share it here !

Versions

Version Date Comments
2021-01-18 Released as open source
1.0 2020-11-28 Initial release. Provide a tool to list users and groups.
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#2

Hi Julien,
i’ve tested your tool, it works fine.
Thanks for sharing it, and Ihope the sorce will be available soon.

Karoly

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#3

Thanks, It worked with my system and I got total: 5,939 items that’s correct. I would love to download it. so that I can run on production server 4.2 SP06.

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#4

Hi @Surika,

I have released the source here ! I let you dig into the project. I will be happy to review bugs and pull requests !

#5

Hi @zidres,

As it’s a web-application how do you want to download it ? I have just released the source on github here, but it’s not like a executable application. You can directly provide the production credential on http://tools.bobj-board.org/ (no bobj data will leave your computer, it’s all working as an offline application). Let me know if it work on your system !

#6

Thanks, Julien I have downloaded it, The reason to ask you we have IT security on server and thought instead of running web-based I should download and run it from our server myself. I have another question. It is now extracted to all the users I need to select all then copy and paste to excel instead download in Excel I need to format it once copied.

Thanks

#7

Exact I have not managed the extraction output. You must copy/paste. One idea can be to generate a csv output (that can be imported in any tool later).

#8

Ok, now it is an issue for me. I have 5000+ users and some of them are members of 3 to 4 groups at least and my file is too big when I select all the records page is not responding.

#9

Hum that’s an issue. I will get a look,

#10

I tried to use but ended with error:

Request failed with status code 404

I am able to ping the hosts server

#11

What value do you provide in cms.local field ?

#12

we have provide the IP only.

#13

Can you test this in a browser:

http://<IP>:6405/biprws/

Does it work ?

If it’s not working do you know if your WACS service is up and serving on port http 6405 ?

Thanks !

#14

How long should it take? I get the users list quickly, but just spinning for the groups. I see the Everyone group shows up, but still waiting for the others.

#15

Hello,

How many users do you have ? Maybe I need to optimize the queries for getting the groups.
Thanks !

#16

Only around 1,700 users

#17

:thinking: that’s a pretty small count. Can you check if you have some network issue during the execution via the browser console ? Generally press F12 and you have a Network tab. You can spot issue also in the Console tab.

Thanks for your help !

#18

I thinks it’s a issue with VPN possible blocking access. Don’t worry about it, is there. Way to stop it from waiting for user groups and just get the user ID’s? I can’t copy user when it is still trying to get the groups.