Changing Preferences for ALL users

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Hi,

We would like to change certain preferences available through the Infoview Preferences button for ALL users (we have 1000+). For instance, we would like to all users to have WebIntelligence format of Interactive by default and to have show 20 documents per page. Is there a way to do this without opening each and every user account and setting individual preferences? In 6.5, we set up profiles in Supervisor to accomplish the same thing.

Thanks.

amer0521 (BOB member since 2005-02-25)

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Hi not available under Xi

There are several posts on this :wink:

But have a look on BOB download’s there is a asp or a jsp i think to achieve this.

Regards

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Business Objects tech support just got back to me this afternoon. They offered a solution that I’ve tested on our development site and it actually works. It is a VB macro that can set up all of your users’ preferences to match the Administrator’s preferences. I believe it would only work in a Windows environment.

Here are the steps.
On the Business Objects server:

  1. Login to Infoview as Administrator
  2. Make any preference change updates
  3. Keep your Infoview session open
  4. Download the macro file setCEPreferences.txt that I have attached.
  5. Open the file and update your Administrator user name, password, CMS name, and authentication type. Save.
  6. Change the file extenstion to .wsf
  7. Doubleclick on the .wsf to run
  8. Test out another user account. You should see the Infoview Preferences updated.
    setCEPreferences.txt (0.0 KB)

amer0521 (BOB member since 2005-02-25)

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I can’t seem to download this file. is it available via the BO website? are there any instructions that go with it?

Decisys :de: (BOB member since 2004-05-21)

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Hi,

I have not seen this file posted on Business Objects anywhere. Can you right-click and select Save Target As? That works for me.

If not, contact BusObj tech support and ask for filename SetCEPreferences.txt.

amer0521 (BOB member since 2005-02-25)

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Many thanks! Now to see if it works in test. Just would like to confirm; this is for XIR2 right?

Decisys :de: (BOB member since 2004-05-21)

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yup that’s fantastic! works for BOXIR2

Decisys :de: (BOB member since 2004-05-21)

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I noticed this that the code references CrystalEnterprise. We are only using WebI. Can I still use this file or do I need a different file?

JeffL (BOB member since 2006-11-22)

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Business Objects Enterprise is based on Crystal Enterprise. BOBJ cannot change all the code base. So expect to find a lot of references on Crystal Enterprise.

substring :us: (BOB member since 2004-01-16)

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We also are only using WebI and this script works for us. We’ve changed WebI preferences to view in Interactive mode by default. The script succesfully changed this option for all users.

amer0521 (BOB member since 2005-02-25)

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I noticed in the script it is set to Enterprise Authentication. Do you know by any chance if this will work with Active Diretory?

blsutton (BOB member since 2006-03-20)

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Thanks for sharing. :+1:

mchoure :india: (BOB member since 2003-09-04)

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This didn’t seem to work… it said the file completed but when I logged in with my test users the preferences were different… any thoughts?

MBradbourne :us: (BOB member since 2003-08-28)

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It works only for 1000 users. If it exceeds 1000 users it does not work for all. I tested this and confirmed. Also I got this word from BO as well.

Thanks

psk (BOB member since 2004-08-04)

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yep - all queries done through the SDK are ‘capped’ at 1000 rows, unless you specify a ‘top N’ value in your query.

Just noticed today that this script has now been kbased: http://technicalsupport.businessobjects.com/KanisaSupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=8811138&sliceId=&dialogID=16430691&stateId=1%200%2016432280

And note that the SI_DATA field that is being called in the script only gets created once you actually create some preferences…

Orange :netherlands: (BOB member since 2006-09-18)

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I found in BO documentation that there is a tool at command line that you can use to set preferences to a group, taking them from a user.

It’s a java tool, with .jar files, in PM 11.5/setup folder.

pavlicic :argentina: (BOB member since 2005-07-19)

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there is a tool at command line that you can use to set preferences to a group,

can you give more detail on this , thanks

davidmc (BOB member since 2006-08-03)

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At this moment I don’t remeber… I think there’s a jar file named PrefCopy or somthing like this.

At Business Objects site, there is a pdf (I think it’s configuration and installation guide BOXI R2) that it’s perfectly explained

pavlicic :argentina: (BOB member since 2005-07-19)

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Many thanks for sharing these precious informations : we easily succeeded in changing default group preferences as Interactive in WebI.
But we still have a problem when we create a new user : when he logs in Infoview, his preferences are still HTML.
Can anybody help us ?
Thank

zdray (BOB member since 2007-05-29)

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The jar file only applies to existing users. You have to re-apply the jar file every single time after new users have been added or they won’t get the preferences.

substring :us: (BOB member since 2004-01-16)