I read a response which I disagreed with and thought I should let others know:
The Response was:
I know that there are several instances of Business Objects in use throughout
our company, and there several people who need to be able to access several different repositories. There can be only BOMain.key on each desktop, and only
one reporsitory for each instance of BO, so there has been a small script written that allows users to swap BOMain.key’s by renaming then as needed.
We have created a second repository to do development work in, and we created a second BOMain.Key file (we named it repositoryname.Key) which is on our desktop. Therefore, we have more than 1 BOMain.Key file on our desktop. When I sign on, it asks me which security domain I want to use, and I simply pick the one I want. This has been working for us so far (only a month).
Nancy,
You are correct. However, there is a catch. You are using 5.0.x of BO. Prior versions did not allow for more than 1 key file and required that file to be named BOMain.key. It sounds as though you are lucky enough to not have experienced 4.0 and 4.1
We work with BO 4.1.4 and have 11 different repositories. We created shortcuts in win95 which renames the different “*.key” files to “bomain.key”. Before logging in we have to choose which repository you want to use.
So create a shortcut on your desktop and fill the target line with; %windir%\System32\cmd.exe /c “copy develop.key Bomain.key” your start in directory should be ******\locdata
When you run this shortcut and start BO you will enter de development environment.
It’s not perfect but works fine.
Marc Schunselaar
ING Bank Nederland
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I read a response which I disagreed with and thought I should let others know:
The Response was:
I know that there are several instances of Business Objects in use throughout
our company, and there several people who need to be able to access several different repositories. There can be only BOMain.key on each desktop, and only
one reporsitory for each instance of BO, so there has been a small script written that allows users to swap BOMain.key’s by renaming then as needed.
We have created a second repository to do development work in, and we created a second BOMain.Key file (we named it repositoryname.Key) which is on our desktop. Therefore, we have more than 1 BOMain.Key file on our desktop. When I sign on, it asks me which security domain I want to use, and I simply pick the one I want. This has been working for us so far (only a month).