Recurring instances in Business Objects

[ashokkandikanti2]

All,

We are currently on SAP BO XI 3.1 SP5

We have several Reports/Publications recurring instances which were created by a user with his AD account. (this user also had Administrator privileges). Now this user has left the organization and we are planning to delete his AD account.

Questions:

1. What happens to these Recurring instance for Reports/Publications?

2. How do we change the ownership from this users AD account to Administrator's account?

Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks

[ashokkandikanti2]

Thank you Jawahar/Dell

Is there a way we can change ownership for all Reports/Recurring instances/Publication that this user has created with is AD account to Administrator account before is AD account is deleted?

[DellSC]

The only way to do that before the user is deleted is through writing code using either the .NET or Java SDK.

-Dell

[ashokkandikanti2]

Thanks again.

Can you please point me to reference documents? So I can investigate further?

[DellSC]

You can find out more information about the SDKs here:

Java:  http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/java-sdk

.NET:  http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/microsoft-net-sdk

-Dell

[DellSC]

The recurring instances and everything else that the users "owns" in the public folders will automatically be changed so that it is owned by the Administrator account.

However, the user's Favorites and everything in it - including scheduled reports - will be deleted.  So if there's anything important there, you'll want to move it to a public folder before deleting the user from AD.

-Dell

[former_member185603]

Best approach is create an enterprise alias for AD user, instead of deleting the user. So in that way, all the schedules will continue run using that account.