Subversion Client?

server administration XI Server Discussion
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I just installed BOB4 on a Windows 2008 server and indicated during the install that I want to use an existing Subversion installation. However, our subversion installation is on a separate server. Therefore I do not have a Subversion client component on the BOB4 server. Has anyone configured BOB4 to use Subversion on another server separate from the BOB4 server? If so, what Subversion client are you using so BOB4 can talk to Subversion?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

mgrackin :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-29)

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Has anyone installed and configured BusinessObjects V4 with an existing installation of Subversion? I have never used Subversion before but we have an existing Subversion installation and would like to configure BOB4 to use it. I just installed BOB4 SP4 Patch 1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

mgrackin :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-29)

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Hello,

Have you tried to configure in CMC your subversion server?

Regards,
Ruy.

ruyneto (BOB member since 2010-04-22)

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Thanks for the response. Yes, I did attempt to configure the Subversion in the CMC but I had no idea what I was doing. I did a bunch more research and testing yesterday to learn what needs to be done. I figured out a couple of things. 1) I need to installed some sort of Subversion Client tool on the BOB4 server machine. 2) I do not think i can use our current Subversion installation because it requires HTTPS for communications. I opened a case with SAP asking about HTTPS support but I don’t think it is supported. I will update this thread once I hear back from them.

mgrackin :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-29)

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That’s my understanding too.

No https support. we have worked around that building an s-tunnel to translate http on the SAP side to https on the subversion side. That works fine.

After executing
svn list “http://localhost:80/repo_dwh_test”
I get back my list of the substructure in the repository.

Regards - Johannes

jonissen :de: (BOB member since 2009-09-29)

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@jonissen

Ah. Thanks for the tip. Very nice solution to get around the HTTPS issue. I will look into this if/when I get some time.

I did confirm with SAP that the HTTPS protocol is not supported with subversion as you also have confirmed.

mgrackin :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-29)

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Were you able to get your environment to work with a Subversion repository that is external to BI 4.0? We’re trying to use our corporate Subversion repository instead of the internal BI 4.0 repository and have so far been unsuccessful. Any help/guidance would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Roxy21 :us: (BOB member since 2008-10-15)

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@Roxy21,

No we have not implemented usage of Subversion at our organization. This is due to the usage of SSL on our Subversion site. This is currently not supported with BusinessObjects 4.

mgrackin :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-29)