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

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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:

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: I will release the source code once no major issue were detected. It will be available on the github platform, under an opensource license.

Versions

Version Date Comments
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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