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Tools for customizing KM content

Former Member
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Hi -

I want to know what tools can be used to customize the display of KM content ?

The following scenario is driving the requirement for a customized display of KM content:

To the best of my knowledge, KM does not support versioning of documents which have been broadcasted via BW. However, my client has a requirement to store the history of broadcasted documents. By default, a broadcasted document will overwrite itself each time it is broadcasted to a KM folder. You can change this behavior by appending a timestamp to the broadcasted filename. However, the KM folder quickly becomes cluttered in a scenario where the KM folder contains many broadcasted reports, each with many different versions ( based on the timestamp ).

My goal is to show the latest "version" of each document and give the user an option to view previous versions...but I'm not sure what the appropriate tool would be for iterating the contents of the folder and adding my own HTML.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated !

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Former Member
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David,

These are my thoughts to date. I have been poking around to increase my understanding and as you have experienced, the integration does not have the smarts yet to deal with versioning which would involve post processing when the BW report is sent to KM i.e. KM would ask is this a new version or overwrite the old one, and that is where BW falls down.

Therefore, a work around would be to set up a seperate repository and ICE the reports across to it. ICE will handle versioning therefore if a new report comes in it should be versioned as the latest. There are some tricky bits like clearing out the BW folder once it has been ICEd across but I will not know until I give it a go which is likey to be at least another month or so (the systems are still being built, we are in design mode).

Anyway, I thought I would pass on the idea for you to either try it or it my spawn ideas of your own.

Paul

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Thanks for the suggestion Paul. I passed this information over to our portal administrator and will let you know if he has any luck with this approach.

KM Community - Any other ideas that may help me with my scenario ?

Former Member
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Hi,

I have same requirement as David. How can this be done?

Moreover, if we implement FPN to display KM content of BI Java portal in EP, will versioning work?

Regards,

Apurva

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Former Member
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Hi David,

That was my assumption but I had to ask. If I find a way I will post it.

Paul

Former Member
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Hi David,

Have you activated versioning for the folder that the BW report is being written to?

I have not looked at this feature but am interested as we are implementing the same thing soon.

Paul

Former Member
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Hi Paul -

We did activate versioning for a KM folder. When we tried to broadcast to that folder, we received an error message. We are running 2004s BI/EP...but I am told it behaves the same way in BW 3.5 / EP6

David