Connecting to SAP Business Objects

Question

How do we connect Digital Hive to SAP Business Objects?

Answer

As a Digital Hive administrator, connecting to SAP Business Objects can be accomplished via the following steps:

1. Open the Digital Hive Control Center
   
2. Click on the Connectors and select New Connector 
   
3. Select SAP BusinessObjects
   
4. Provide a Display Name for the Connector
   
5. Business Objects Default is the only option for Authentication Method
   
6. Enter a Username and Password in the System Credentials section. This user is the account that will be used for indexing content so should have visibility to all desired content
   
7. The Namespace value is optional, but the default for SAP BusinessObjects is usually secEnterprise
   
8. The following Base URL's must be provided to connect (Base URLS will have to be modified for your environment)
   

   Server Type	Base URL	Path
   Raylight URL	http://server.domain.com:6405	/biprws
   Logon URL	http://server.domain.com:6405	/biprws
   Open document URL	https://server.domain.com:8443	/BOE/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp

   
   
9. Press Next. If all settings are correct, you are connected to SAP Business Objects

Once the connector has been added, source content will have to be 'enabled' to be accessible from within Digital Hive. Please consult this document for further steps: https://support.digitalhive.com/portal/en/kb/articles/enable-connector-content-in-digital-hive

If any issues are encountered when trying to launch embedded SAP BOBJ content, check the following Business Objects configuration settings.

1. On the SAP Business Objects server, navigate to the <install_directory>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\warfiles\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\default\ folder
   
2. In a text editor, open the OpenDocument.properties file
   
3. Ensure that these values are set properly:
   
        logontoken.enabled=true
   
        SAPLogonToken.enabled=true
   
        sso.types.and.order=sapLogonToken
4. Copy these properties if they need to be changed
   
5. In the <install_directory>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\warfiles\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\custom\ directory, create an OpenDocument.properties file and paste in the corrected values
   
6. Save and close the file
7. Navigate to the <install_directory>\tomcat\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\default\
   
8. In a text editor, open the OpenDocument.properties file
   
9. Ensure that these values are set properly:
   
        logontoken.enabled=true
   
        SAPLogonToken.enabled=true
   
        sso.types.and.order=sapLogonToken
10. Copy these properties if they need to be changed
    
11. In the <install_directory>\tomcat\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\custom\ directory, create an OpenDocument.properties file and paste in the corrected values
    
12. Save and close the file
13. Use the wdeploy SAP BOBJ command to deploy the new settings.

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