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Some BO related questions

general discussion
#1

Can some one please answer few of these questions for me.

Thanks in advance…

  1. Question:
    How do you create a user?

  2. Question:
    What is the Business Objects repository?

  3. Question:
    Can we have multiple domains? If yes, what is the purpose of having them?

  4. Question:
    When is the repository created?

  5. Question:
    What is a domain? How many are there in a basic set up? What are they?

  6. Question:
    What is the BOmain.key?

bwbouser (BOB member since 2009-02-24)

#2

Welcome to B:bob:B!

You should tell your interviewer to upgrade from BO 5.x or BO 6.x to the latest BO version because they use unsupported version of BO.

And by the way, you can find answers to all your questions using search.

Marek Chladny :slovakia: (BOB member since 2003-11-27)

#3

Welcome to B:bob:B!

Please see here.

MichaelWelter :vatican_city: (BOB member since 2002-08-08)

#4
  1. Question:
    How do you create a user?

In supervisor --> add user

  1. Question:
    What is the Business Objects repository?

Set of tables where data BOBJ related is stored

  1. Question:
    Can we have multiple domains? If yes, what is the purpose of having them?

Yes
1 security domain
n universe domains
n documents domains
you can simulate a Dev, Test, UAT and Prod environment. completely seperated from eachother

  1. Question:
    When is the repository created?
    when you log into supervisor --> admin (3 options)

  2. Question:
    What is a domain? How many are there in a basic set up? What are they?
    a domain is a seperate env which consists of a group of tables for each schema
    in basic there a 3
    1 security domain
    1 universe domain
    1 document domain

  3. Question:
    What is the BOmain.key?
    it’s a key file which contains encrypted data where for instance the connection is stored (metadata)

E10 :netherlands: (BOB member since 2003-04-16)

#5

please do migrate to XI3.1 as all BOBJ tools prior to this release are legacy and except for xir2 it is not supported any longer

E10 :netherlands: (BOB member since 2003-04-16)

#6

Thanks a lot E10

bwbouser (BOB member since 2009-02-24)

#7

And that only from SP4 or so I read today…

Nick Daniels :uk: (BOB member since 2002-08-15)