David Lai's Business Intelligence Blog

How to unlock jsps so that we can edit them in BI4

I’d like to present a neat little trick to unlocking the jsps in BI4. By default if we try to edit any of the jsps (ie: login.jsp from BI Launchpad), nothing happens and we keep getting the same default page.  I think SAP does this so that people don’t go mucking around with the jsps and then harrass technical support when their application fails. Try it out for yourself by editing the...

Hidden feature WSDL Generator

Recently with one of my client BI4 implementations I’ve been doing a lot of patch upgrades and external application installations (ie: explorer). Apparently it seems whenever some sort of upgrade is done on the server, some of the existing BI Web Services stop working. For example the definition from the BI service gives the following error when I open it up in Internet Explorer WSDLException:...