Hi guys,
We are in the process of moving our BEx 3.5 users over to Analysis and the workbook conversion tool works great. But we have hit an issue. To convert the workbook it needs to be saved on the BW server and then converted within Analysis. So we save it to PW1 (our Production BW system) and then convert the workbook. This 'ties' the workbook to PW1. This works OK for users who do not need to go through the BI Platform to log on. So these could be users who have a 'Named' user licence. However, Concurrent users need to log onto the BI Platform to fulfil their licencing requirments. But when they come to refresh a converted (or created for that matter) workbook that is 'locked' to PW1 they don't get the option to log onto the BI Platform - it connects directly to the BW system (but does allow them to refresh the query).
Is anyone aware of a way of detaching a workbook from a system and reconnecting it to another one? I have tried by changing the Data Source name in the Components tab and I am able to choose the same query on a different system. The only trouble with this is that it refreshes the query and resets the data source to the default query design layout - not good!
This is going to be a real stumbeling block for us as we won't be able to have all our users going through the BI Platform route and will end up having a mix of log on methods.
Looking forward to some help from you guys!
Regards and thanks in advance,
Stephen