By: Rense Varughese
Target Audience
This document would help SAP Business Objects administrators/developers easily migrate/upgrade SAP BO XI 3.1 web intelligence reports to the BI 4.0/4.1 platform.
It avoids the use of Upgrade Management Tool especially when you are not looking at migrating the entire content of BO XI 3.1 to BI 4.0/4.1.
Objective
Upgrade Management Tool is often seen as a cumbersome approach to moving content from the XI environment to the new BI 4.0/4.1 platform. Also, UDT has its restrictions for allowing complete/incremental upgrade for the Windows and Unix BO server environments. This approach will save you a lot of time and effort if your source and target BO servers are on the Unix platform, no incremental upgrade with UDT is possible and/or you are not looking at migrating only a few reports.
Solution
The below steps would help you bring the .wid file from BO XI 3.1 to BI 4.0 platform
1. Open the 'Web Intelligence Rich Client' from your BO XI 3.1 client tools.
2. Import the web intelligence document you wish to have in your target BI 4.0 platform from the CMS.
3. Save the document into your local machine with the two options checked - 'Save for all users' and 'Remove document security'. This is the most important step here as it would now de-link this .wid file from the BO XI 3.1 CMS.
4. Now open the 'Web Intelligence Rich Client' from your BI 4.0 client tools and login with your BI 4.0 user credentials.
5. Browse to the location where you saved the .wid document in Step 3 and open it.
7. Change the source of this report to another universe/Bex connection.
6. Export it to the BI 4.0 repository. The report is now linked to your BI 4.0 CMS repository.
The above steps can also be followed for .unv files using Universe Designer in BO XI 3.1 and Universe Design Tool in BI 4.0.
About the Author:
Rense Varughese
3 years of experience in SAP BO & SAP BW, 2 years in SAP Basis.