Could not import the universe

system · March 14, 2000, 7:55am

I have a universe that I can export to the Universe Repository. But when I try to import it, I have the message “could not import the universe”.

I tried to delete the universe from the repository and to export it again, but the problem comes again. I also tried to delete the Universe Repository and to create it again. No success.

Thanks for a solution.

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system · March 14, 2000, 12:54pm

I have a universe that I can export to the Universe Repository. But when I try to import it, I have the message “could not import the universe”.

Did you try deleting the universe from your hard drive then trying the import again?

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system · March 15, 2000, 7:40am

I have a universe that I can export to the Universe Repository. But when I try to import it, I have the message “could not import the universe”.

– Did you try deleting the universe from your hard drive then trying the – import again?

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system · March 15, 2000, 5:16pm

Stephane,

I have found that if you log into Supervisor using the General Supervisor account, and then delete the universe from the repository, it will solve this problem. The cause of the problem is likely that the universe ID, which is stored internally in the .unv file on the local machine and in one of the repository’s database tables, has gotten out of sync. By deleting the universe from the repository, you will then be able to export your local copy and the ID’s will again be in sync.

The downside is that your users will probably have to import the universe again - a problem if you have a lot of users.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Paul

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system · March 16, 2000, 2:57pm

We have the reason of the failure identificate. We had a class name “Arbeitskrfte / Hofd¸nger” and the / character is the reason of the failure.

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system · October 26, 2001, 5:59pm

Hi List,

I used to deal with some universes and reports out of OLAP environment. Due to certain circumstances, I had to create a universe locally on my machine with secured connecttion on OLTP. I exported the Universe to the repository(it went fine) and am able to run some reports on this universe…
BUT, I am not able to import the Universe…Nobody else has locked it…Whenever I try to import the Universe, I get a message ‘Could not import the universe’.
Later, I realised that I am able to run report on my machine only due to the local universe.
For creating the universe and report, I had used the same user-id.

How can I import my universe?
What had gone wrong or I missed something…

Thanks & Regards,
jay

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system · October 26, 2001, 6:04pm

Jay,

By any chance do you have designer and the univese open on your machine at the same time you’re trying to import? If so, it can’t overwrite the file because you have it open.

Julie
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system · October 26, 2001, 6:10pm

No, this is not the case, Julie…
Just opening the designer interphase and trying to import this Universe is giving the message ‘Could not import the Universe’…
In some case which you are mentioning, I think one always gets a message as to close the universe file at first and then import…

jay

— Julie Neumann neumann_julie@HOTMAIL.COM wrote:

Jay,

By any chance do you have designer and the univese open on your machine at
the same time you’re trying to import? If so, it can’t overwrite the file
because you have it open.

Julie

Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 12:59 PM

Hi List,

I used to deal with some universes and reports out
of
OLAP environment. Due to certain circumstances, I
had
to create a universe locally on my machine with secured connecttion on OLTP. I exported the
Universe
to the repository(it went fine) and am able to run some reports on this universe…
BUT, I am not able to import the Universe…Nobody else has locked it…Whenever I try to import the Universe, I get a message ‘Could not import the universe’.
Later, I realised that I am able to run report on
my
machine only due to the local universe. For creating the universe and report, I had used
the
same user-id.

How can I import my universe?
What had gone wrong or I missed something…

Thanks & Regards,
jay

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system · October 26, 2001, 6:59pm

Jay,

If you have supervisor access… delete the universe…export your local copy back into the universe and then try importing it… it shd work

Anjan

— Jayant Bhushan jayantbhushan@YAHOO.COM wrote:

No, this is not the case, Julie…
Just opening the designer interphase and trying to import this Universe is giving the message ‘Could not import the Universe’…
In some case which you are mentioning, I think one always gets a message as to close the universe file at first and then import…

jay

— Julie Neumann neumann_julie@HOTMAIL.COM wrote:

Jay,

By any chance do you have designer and the univese open on your machine at
the same time you’re trying to import? If so, it can’t overwrite the file
because you have it open.

Julie

Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 12:59 PM

Hi List,

I used to deal with some universes and reports out
of
OLAP environment. Due to certain circumstances, I
had
to create a universe locally on my machine with secured connecttion on OLTP. I exported the
Universe
to the repository(it went fine) and am able to run some reports on this universe…
BUT, I am not able to import the Universe…Nobody else has locked it…Whenever I try to import the Universe, I get a message ‘Could not import the universe’.
Later, I realised that I am able to run report on
my
machine only due to the local universe. For creating the universe and report, I had used
the
same user-id.

How can I import my universe?
What had gone wrong or I missed something…

Thanks & Regards,
jay

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system · October 26, 2001, 7:18pm

Thanks Anjan,
It worked…
But I am still surprised what had went wrong initially…

jay

— Anjan Roy anjanroy@YAHOO.COM wrote:

Jay,

If you have supervisor access… delete the universe…export your local copy back into the universe and then try importing it… it shd work

Anjan

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system · October 26, 2001, 7:26pm

I am also not sure as to what goes wrong… just that I too had experienced this problem a couple of times in the past and the trick worked. Maybe some of our Guru’s would be able to explain …

— Jayant Bhushan jayantbhushan@YAHOO.COM wrote:

Thanks Anjan,
It worked…
But I am still surprised what had went wrong initially…

jay

— Anjan Roy anjanroy@YAHOO.COM wrote:

Jay,

If you have supervisor access… delete the universe…export your local copy back into the universe and then try importing it… it shd work

Anjan

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system · October 26, 2001, 7:57pm

We have made it a standard to delete any universe copies from the harddrive prior to importing from the repository.

We have also learned that deleting universes from the web servers prior to exporting a new iteration of an existing universe is advisable. Occasionally the universe versions on multiple servers will get of synch.

Enjoy the weekend.

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system · May 30, 2015, 12:26pm

Currently i am working with BO 6.5 version. when i am trying to import my universe in my test region. It is throwing error.
Error1 : Could not import the universe.
Error2: Could not export the universe.

I have deleted my local copy of universe. in my c:\program files\Business objects 6.5\universes

But its still not working. can you please help me regarding this.

Should i delete a Test universe in my BO 6.5 Supervisor.

And recently our users around 300 people are facing timed out issues. And scheduled BCA reports are failing.
We are using SQL Database for our project. This Database is supported by IBM.
We will support only admin i.e (supervisor) level things.

The problem is related to SQL or i need to change any settings in Designer.
I guess the problem is with disk space issue.
“Previously we never faced this” can you help me please. Thanks for your time.

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