rename the root-Ordner in BOE

[Former Member]

I have a curios situation at a customer installation: Dev systems root folder is named: root Folder – like usual And Prod systems root folder is named: root-Ordner – the german translation of this folder. So the user itself is using EN settings the rest of the systems shows the English names of language depending folder names but the path to certain resources like  files for Designstudio – is different on DEV and PROD – so how to rename the root-Ordner to root Folder? Any ideas? Wobi

[CdnConnection]

Wolgang,

    You can NOT rename the "root folder", it's the system default.   What is the workflow for your path creation?  If you specify the path using EN language it should work fine.  Even when creating a "Document Link", it uses CUID # and not name.

Language should NOT be an issue creating Document links, see below sample using CUID

When promoting content from DEV - QA - PROD, it uses CUID's NOT names.  This not cause any issues.

Regards,

Ajay

[Former Member]

Is this ID - principle also true for DesignStudio elements - CSS - files and jpgs etc...  there is a Need to have named the Folders alike on dev and prod - so the Folders are named the same - but the root Folder (path...) is different - I hope that this path  differences are not a Problem!

But at the Moment it Looks like a big Problem!

Wobi

[former_member185603]

It is only language difference , It did not change the root folder name.

And for all the CSS files and Jpgs, they still maintain the CUIDs. so it should not be any problem.

[CdnConnection]

Wolfgang,

     Everything in CMS is stored using ID's & CUID's.  The name is only exposed to the users.  On any object Right-Click and select properties, you will see ID:CUID.

All objects are physically stored in the FRS using CUID's and pointer in the CMS database.

Regards,

Ajay

[Former Member]

Customer reports that within Design Studio the path to the css files is stored like: path is Root Folder/Design Studio - Standard files/ - and since the root folders are different on dev and prod - the css on prod can't be  found.

So here the traditional ID -strategy within BOE fails - I will talk to DS developers to check their coding..

wobi

[Former Member]

Well DS Admin Handbook states: Note Make sure that the BI platform instances are installed with the same language. Otherwise it might not be possible to find certain folder names in the different instances. (Page 97)

So that is already well known - a Problem!

At the Moment the Solution to cure this mess would be to re-install one of the Servers - -to get the root Folder names straight -  right?

- sigh!

Wobi

[former_member136842]

Hello Wolfgang,

you are absolutely right. I had the same Problem a couple of times at customer site. Design Studio is NOT referencing its Objects by CUID as f.e. WebI does. It is referencing it by the full path. And if there is a Mismatch between "Root-Folder" and "Root-Ordner", objects within the Design Studio Application will not shown properly.

Also, the transportation between Environments should fail.

Sadly there is only one Option: Re- installing. Take really really care when it comes to the setup language and the language packs. They have to be identical on all Environments.

See also:

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2223737/E

Regards

-Seb.

PS: Sorry for the bad news

[Former Member]

Thank you for the clarification. I think WE (the BO Community) had the impression that language does not matter (anymore)  and that EN is the basis and the translation does the localization.

Now I learn the hard way - language matters 😉

So I will talk to the customer to do clean install and migrate to 4.2 finally 😉

- Wobi

[CdnConnection]

Wolfgang,

   BOBJ Administrators also need to keep in-mind if your are doing a Global multi-language install you MUST have ONE common (English) language install across all installs.

Regards,

Ajay

[Former Member]

Since the client installation has english as Default language and all other lanaguages are additional language packs - this process should also be valid for the Server Installation. EN as Default and additional language Packs. The server installation documentation is not clear that the presented Setup language will also determine a language as dominant one. I always install in EN per Default. So this did not happen in my installations . But it should not be possible to do a irreversible  language split on the Server! That's a fault in the current Setup design.

- Wobi

[former_member185603]

YOu cannot rename the root folder. Probably you might have installed only German version in PROD.

[Former Member]

that is the Problem -- rename is not possible -  but afaik Installation language is per Default EN and you may Display other languages in the launchpad ... but only german install should not be possible!

- wondering

[former_member185603]

or language preferences is set to 'german'. Please check. in any case, promoting should not be any issue.