BOFC 10.0 External Authentication

[Former Member]

Hi there,

I have installed a BO Financial Consolidation 10.0 and a BO BI Platform 4.0 on the same machine. Now I want to set up the external authentication from FC to BI Platform.

In the FC WebAdmin page I've configured the 'External authentication configuration string' to 'Business Objects Enterprise XI Authentication' and the CMS servername is the hostname the applications are installed on.

This doesn't work. Maybe there is missing something. The BOFC Login doesn't accept a user that is configured in the CMC from BI Platform.

I've searched for a long time, bud didn't find more than the short description in the instguide.

I would be really thankful if you might help me figure out whats exaclty missing.

Best regards

[Marc_Kuipers · Accepted solution]

Hello,

In your steps you did no mention that you have created the user in BOFC10 itself

An external user still needs to be defined in the BOFC application (as it needs a profile). On the authentication tab, you can specify that this an externally authenticated user and indicate its BOE (CMC) name/alias

Regards

Marc Kuipers

SAP Support

[Former Member]

Thanks a lot! Now it works.