Document History

The following table provides an overview of the most important document changes.
Version Date Description
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.1 May 2013 First release of this document.
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.1 Support Package 1 August 2013
  • The “Promotion Management” chapter is updated.
  • The “Managing Licenses” chapter is updated.
  • Other corrections and minor updates.
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.1 Support Package 2 November 2013
  • The “Version Management” chapter is updated.
    • The “To launch Version Management on Solaris 10” section has been added.
    • The “Starting and stopping Subversion manually on Unix” section has been added.
    • The “Default Version Management system settings” section has been added.
    • The “To use the Version Management System settings option” section has been updated.
  • The “Promotion Management” chapter is updated.
    • The “Using LCM Override Settings option” section has been updated.
    • The “Using the Command Line option” section has been updated.
    • The “Command-line tool parameters” section has been updated.
  • The “Repository Diagnostic Tool” chapter is updated.
  • The “Customizing the Web Intelligence interface” section is updated.
  • Other corrections and minor updates.
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.1 Support Package 3 March 2014
  • Added the “Managing sessions” section.
  • Reorganized and updated the “Customizing application user interfaces” section.
  • Added Design Studio auditing.
  • Added section describing how to change the CMS request port.
  • Added information on using Oracle databases for monitoring.
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.1 Support Package 4 June 2014
  • Added BI launch pad to the “Managing Applications” section.
  • Added a -legacymode command-line parameter for the File Repository Server.
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.1 Support Package 5 November 2014
  • Added the SAP Lumira section under "Architecture > Client Applications > Available Separately".
  • Added SAP Lumira to the “Managing Applications > Managing applications through the CMC > Overview” section.
  • Added the "Managing SAP Lumira Settings" section under "Managing Applications > Managing applications through the CMC > Application-specific settings".
  • Updated the "Customization application user interfaces" section with folder customization feature.
  • Added Analysis Office and Lumira document types in the "Content Types" and "Searchable Content Types" sections.
  • Added a note on full content indexing support in the "Configuring Application Properties in the CMC" section.
  • Added a note on metadata search in the "Facets" section.
  • Updated the "Configuring SBO files" section.
  • Updated the default value for -maxobjectsincache option in the “Central management Server” section.
  • Updated the "Web Intelligence Services properties" section with -Dsap.sl.bics.variableComplexSelectionMapping=n command-line parameter.
  • Updated the "Repository Diagnostic Tool Parameters" section with the -trace command-line parameter.
  • Updated the maximum value for Delete Events Older Than (Days) field in the "To configure your Auditing Data Store database settings" section.
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.1 Support Package 6 June 2015
  • Updated the “Authentication” section with the new password strength under “Authentication > Enterprise Authentication > To change Enterprise Settings > To change General Password Settings”
  • Added SFTP server in the service description under “Architecture > Servers, services, nodes, and hosts > Services > Table 4 > Destination Delivery Scheduling Service”
  • Added SFTP server in the service description under “Architecture > Servers, services, nodes, and hosts > Services > Table 4 > Publishing Service”
  • Added SFTP server as a Third-party application under “Securing the BI Platform > Understanding communication between the BI platform components > Communication between BI platform components > BI platform Port Requirements > Port Requirements for Third-party Applications”
  • Added “Send to SFTP Location” as a Right under “Rights Appendix > Rights for specific object types > Applications > BI launch pad”
  • Added “SFTP Destination Default Settings Valid” as a Metric under “ Server Metrics Appendix > About the Server Metrics Appendix > Adaptive Job Server Metrics > Table 240 : Job Server Metrics”
  • Updated the Description for “Email Server” under “Securing the BI Platform > Understanding communication between the BI platform components > Communication between BI platform components > BI platform Port Requirements > Port Requirements for Third-party Applications” with the steps for Setting up SMTP over SSL
  • Added “Enabling Single Sign-on for CMC” under “Authentication > Authentication options in the BI platform > Single sign-on to the BI platform > Single sign-on support”
  • Updated “Clustering Central Management Servers” under “Server Administration > Clustering Central Management Servers”
  • Updated “Password Restrictions” under “Securing the BI Platform > Auditing Web Activity”
  • Updated “BI workspaces” under “Architecture > Client Applications > Web application clients”
  • Added “Query script - enable editing (SQL , MDX…)” as a Right under “Rights Appendix > Rights for specific object types > Web Intelligence documents”