ZABO Version Problem

Hi,
We are having Business Objects 5.1.7 reporting module installed on our machines and we are trying to download the ZABO 5.1.6 and it never works.Is this because the BO 5.1.7 conflicting with the ZABO 5.1.6 that we are trying to download? Is it possible to have both 5.1.6 ZABO and 5.1.7 desktop components on the same machine?

Can somebody help on this issue?

Regards,
Phani


nphani77 (BOB member since 2004-02-04)

You can not install Full Client BO 5.1.7 and ZABO (any version) on the same desktop. ZABO will not download if you have Full Client already installed, you will get a message that there is another version of the software on your computer.

You can make the Full Client act like you are using ZABO. From the login screen change your security domain to use your ZABO .rkey file instead of your BOMain.key file. This will force the client to go through the WebI server and act like ZABO.


kmahler :trinidad_tobago: (BOB member since 2002-07-29)

Hi Kmahler,
Thank you very much for your lightening speed response and I still have some concern here and I think I should be more specific in explaining the problem.
Scenario 1:On a machine loaded with ZABO 5.1.7
I am trying to edit the Full Client Report in webI and it will try to open the document with ZABO installed on the machine and it never finishes and after sometime BO window will vanish.

Scenario 2:On machine loaded with BO 5.1.6
when I perform the same activity mentioned above on the machine installed with BO 5.1.6 it will not have any problem and it could open the report in BO.

It was bit difficult to understand for me where it was going wrong.
Can you please help me.

Regards,
Phani


nphani77 (BOB member since 2004-02-04)

Do you mean that one machine has ZABO 5.1.7 loaded and another machine has ZABO 5.1.6 loaded?

Is ZABO 5.1.7 working at all? Can you start ZABO 5.1.7 from the Start Menu and create or run a document stored on your desktop?


kmahler :trinidad_tobago: (BOB member since 2002-07-29)

I seem to recall that there was a major change in how ZABO worked between versions 5.1.6 and 5.1.7.

Due to those major differences, I believe ZABO 5.1.6 can’t work with a 5.1.7 server, nor can ZABO 5.1.7 work with a 5.1.6 server.

Does anyone else recall this?


Anita Craig :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-17)

Absolutely! There were major performance improvements in ZABO 5.1.7 … I remember specifically that the time it took to bring up the prompt box was shortened, but there were other “tuning” improvements as well. The upgrade of the client portion of ZABO was mandatory.


Dwayne Hoffpauir :us: (BOB member since 2002-09-19)