Html output works in 5.1.4 but not 6.1a

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I have a report I publish to the web that has several tabs(reports/sheets, whatever you like to call them). Everything works under 5.1.4. I can view all the tabs within the report. But when I open the same report in 6.1b and save to HTML, some tabs won’t open. All the tabs that don’t open happen to have space and ‘.’ in the tab name. Then I realized 5.1.4 and 6.1b handles html differently.

In 6.1b, if a tab reads ‘By SBE Hierarchial No.’ it puts the report under a directory name ‘by+sbe+hierarchial+no.’. This extra dot at the end of the directory somehow caused the webpage error.

In 5.1.4, it puts the report under a directory name ‘by_sbe_hierarchial_no_’. And everything displays fine.

I guess in 6.1b, it translates ‘space’ to ‘+’ and leave ‘.’ intact.
And in 5.1.4, it translates the ‘space’ and ‘.’ to ‘_’.

Anyone know if there is a way to bypass this problem? Or do I have to get rid of all the '.'s in the reports?

Another thing is very werid, if I go to the file system and click the html link, it even works in 6.1b. But if I go through the web, certain tabs won’t show.

Any option can I set to resolve this problem?

Thanks.
Joanna

joanna (BOB member since 2004-01-29)

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Have you logged a case? This sounds like something that should be sent to BusinessObjects as a bug report.

Dave Rathbun :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-06)

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I have not logged a case because I don’t have the privilege to do so. I have to go through the central IT group in our company.

Actually I figured out why it worked under the filesystem. The directory was created without a ‘.’ at the end(I was wrong in my previous posting). But the link has an extra ‘.’. Going through the filesystem ‘.’ was interpreted as the ‘current dir’, that’s why it worked.

Thanks for replying.

joanna (BOB member since 2004-01-29)