This post is a continuation of my previous post on Bursting Reports in Business Objects
The difference here is that instead of distributing the reports to Business Objects users, we’ll be able to dynamically control our user list that we will distribute our reports to externally.

Dynamic Recipients are often used with Crystal Reports that are not connected to a Universe and do not have BOBJ users associated with the reports.

In our example we will create a publication using the webi report from the previous post and distribute it to a dynamic recipient list.  Our list will contain a list of stores and their associated state and email.  They will receive an email containing the pdf report filtered according to their state.

The ability to publish and schedule reports according to one’s profile is an important feature that we have in Business Objects.  For example, if I am a plant manager for a the West Region and want to receive a daily report on work quality, it would be very beneficial if I can receive a report in my inbox daily that only contains results for the West Region.  This would save me the hassle of manually running a report each day and manually entering in my parameters, which is cumbersome.

In this tutorial, we will walk through step by step on how to schedule and burst a Web Intelligence report as well as creating user/group profiles.

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation on BI Web Services at SAP Inside Track Vancouver 2011!

A replay of the presentation can be found at the following link => http://bit.ly/rkBU1p

I’ve also attached the powerpoint presentation that you can download here

In this article I would like to state the importance of how useful it is to use a traffic monitoring tool such as Charles or Fiddler when debugging connection type errors.

In this example, we’ll go through a quick scenario on solving a crossdomain.xml related issue.

You will need to Install Charles on your machine and install the Charles addon for Firefox.

Below is a great article on planned SAP named changes for the Business Objects 4.0 release.

It looks like Xcelsius Enterprise will be changed to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards.   In my opinion it’s still better than SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, as that name is Soooo long!

Bad thing is that the new change will add some more confusion.  Can’t we just keep the same name to make things easier?
Other than that, the only other major name change seems to be Voyager to Analysis.

It would be great if you can comment with your opinion of the constant name changes that keep happening.

SAP Business Objects Name Changes