Hello,

I am having trouble with the BI Portal (xp) version 2.1.7. I carefully
followed the install requirements, and the portal installed seemingly ok.
However, upon the first opening of the BIP URL, the folder list in the view
tree is empty. More, when I go to menu File->New, and choose one of the
commands Category or Folder, I don't get any window popping up asking for
options, I get strange behaviour instead - the small sub-menu window gets
filled with the copy of main menu (the BI Portal logo and top menu "File",
"Tools"). I don't see any way how I could debug this, so I need someones'
assistance, maybe someone has experienced similar weird things.

Regards,

Pavils

Pavils,

Do you have SQLXML 3.0 SP1 on the Application server? I had the same issue
until I installed it. Not sure if it is needed, but I also installed SOAP
Toolkit 3.0 on the app server. With regards to the File->New display refer
to this link for the fix.
http://weblogs.asp.net/josh.robinson...09/151663.aspx

Hope this helps. Once you get it going, please let me know if you are able
to answer this question. "Do the Sync to PC and Thin Mode tools work in
version 2.1.7?" I posted below and am not able to get this going and not
sure if I did something incorrect. The documentation does not seem to go
into detailed steps on these functionalities.

Thanks

"Pavils Jurjans" wrote:

Hello, swan!

Before my post I browsed old news and found out that this could be connected
to SQLXML. But, I still couldn't get it fixed:
I browsed the MS homepage and gound out that SQLXML 3.0 service packs are
not 'upgrades', but they are more like versions, because they are full
installs. Initially I installed SP3 (the latest), assuming that it should be
backwards-compatible. It didn't work. I uninstalled it and got SP2 from the
MS homepage, installed it. During install it claims that 'Microsoft SOAP
Toolkit 2.0 SP2' must be installed. I could not find the exact version in
the MS site, but I found version 3.0, and installed it, again assuming
backwards compatibility. No luck.
If the BIP *really* wants SQLXML 3.0 SP1 and not more, and if it requires
Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 2.0 SP2 and not higher, I need those two
installations, but it doesn't seem that MS hosts them now :-(
I will try to dig up the Internet now in search for these now... if someone
could give me any link, I'd be grateful.

I surely will, if I will manage to check out that feature!

Thanks, Pavils

Ok, great, I managed to get it working... it really seems that higher SPs
for SQLXML do not work, how lame.
For those who are in despair, go to
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...d-84e4ff655a3b
(though I don't know how long the MS site URLS live) for SQLXML 3.0 SP1.

Another issue I start to see is that the BIP seems to be quite demanding to
client user identification. It is not enough to provide User/Password/Domain
upon connecting to the BIP site. I'd expect that I could still connect to
the data sources that are not directly available from the client, but OWC
seem to want direct connection to the AS server, thus a generic web user
could not get the pivot panel and chart panel working. Apparently, I need to
be logged-on to the domain where the BIP server is, and registered as
rightful viewer of the correspoding OLAP databases on the AS server. That's
sad... I was willing to open the portal for external access for field
managers. Now they have to do log-in via internet, making separate profile
from wichever PC whay are willing to connect from.

Pavils

Pavils,

You could modify the application to use forms authenication. It might be a
pain, but can be done.

lyndon
"Pavils Jurjans" <pavils (AT) mailbox (DOT) riga.lv> wrote