Images location and relocation

system · June 27, 2008, 10:22am

Hello,

I work for a University and I have a directory on our network that contains the photographs of each of our students. I have done some proof-of-concept work that has allowed us to create ‘picture sheets’ through WebI with images of all the students on a given course.

My problem is that this proof-of-concept involved copying some images to \ProgramFiles\Businessobjects\Businessobjects11\Images on our server. In production, this is not possible as there are gigabytes of images, and more images are added frequently.

I’ve tried (and failed) to be clever, using a NTFS junction point to mount a UNC network resource to a subdirectory of the \Images directory. Has anybody else attempted (or succeeded) in doing this?

If I can’t do this, the next option is to change the location that boimg:// refers to from \ProgramFiles\Businessobjects\Businessobjects11\Images to the network location. Does anybody know where this default images path is set, and if it can be changed on the server?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
David

dra4 (BOB member since 2006-01-20)

system · June 27, 2008, 10:42am

Hi,

Try with this.

/BusinessObjects Enterprise 11.5/Images

Thanks

Kamalini (BOB member since 2007-10-11)

system · June 27, 2008, 2:09pm

Hello,

I don’t understand what you are suggesting. I know where the directory is, I’m trying to get BO to look somewhere else.

Any ideas?

David

dra4 (BOB member since 2006-01-20)

system · July 3, 2008, 12:53pm

Hi,

Did you get the answer?

Thanks

Kamalini

Kamalini (BOB member since 2007-10-11)

system · July 3, 2008, 1:12pm

Yes, sorry for not updating earlier.

BO knowledge base article 4330365 explains that you need critical hotfix 16, and then you can change the default location for images.

It’s not the best route, but at least it will work!

David

dra4 (BOB member since 2006-01-20)

system · September 25, 2008, 8:05am

You can change the location of boimg by doing the following:-

Stop the “WebIntelligence Report Server”
Right click and choose “Properties”
Add “-images C:\images” the to commad (where C:\images is your required location)
Start the service.

I have successfuly done this. However, I would like to change the dashboard images folder to the same location but I can’t find how to do this. Does anyone know if there is a way of doing this for dashboard images?

Cheers,

clarej (BOB member since 2008-01-22)

system · September 25, 2008, 11:10am

I would also like to keep all the images in one location and use a relative path to display these old friend. I will let you know if I get anywhere after some diggin. BO are tinkers for spreading images over multiple locations.

superdooperdoop :o

YPVISA (BOB member since 2007-03-14)

system · November 2, 2009, 1:24pm

Did you ever find out about changing image location pointers?
Roland

RolandR (BOB member since 2009-10-23)

system · November 2, 2009, 1:30pm

CHF 16 did what I expected, and allowed me to change the location to a UNC path in the WebIntelligence Server via the CMC. This fixed the issue I had.

dra4 (BOB member since 2006-01-20)

system · November 3, 2009, 1:46pm

Thanks, dra4!

RolandR (BOB member since 2009-10-23)