What are impacts of changing longname or filename of a univ

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I seem to recall that Universe file names can’t be changed without causing problems. Is this still the case? In particular, what I recall is that if you “Save As” and change the universe file name, it essentially creates an entirely new universe file and all of the background object reference IDs are re-set. I also believe that just renaming the universe file manually (through Windows Explorer) can cause problems with the universe - in particular with it losing it’s exported LOVs which are st…

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Hi, I have some 100+ webi reports based on universe A. Now we have got a newer universe B, which is a replica of universe A but contains less data, hence faster to execute reports based on this. Now, in full client, we can directly change the universe name in VIEW DATA option. Is there anything similar in webi? Otherwise it would be a pain to recreate all those 100+ reports. Please suggest. We use BO XI R2. arnabpaul2k (BOB member since 2008-04-02)

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haider (BOB member since 2005-07-18)