October 3, 2010 1 minute read

Change Has Come to the BusinessObjects Community Forum

As communicated in my SNEAK PREVIEW: Significant Changes to the BusinessObjects Community Forums post, significant changes to the BusinessObjects Community forums have been made. These changes bring our forums closer in line with the way the rest of the SAP Solutions are presented, and align with the rest of the site.

Our previous 4 forum categories have now become 3:

Below is a mapping of the change based on our former categories (one table for each old forum category).

Business Objects Forum Category

Old Forum Name	New Forum Name
Business Objects General	Threads moved to the Other SAP BusinessObjects Products and Solutions forum
Universe Designer and Business Views Designer	Semantic Layer
BusinessObjects Enterprise Administration	BI Platform
Integration Kits – SAP	BusinessObjects Integration Kits
OnDemand	SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand
Integration Kits – Other	BusinessObjects Integration Kits
Enterprise Information Management	Data Services and Data Quality
Postalsoft	SAP Postalsoft [Read-only]
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence	SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
SAP BusinessObjects BI Solution Architecture	Business Intelligence Solution Architecture
BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence	SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence
Legacy Products	SAP BusinessObjects BI Legacy Products
Other Business Objects Products	SAP BusinessObjects BI Legacy Products

Crystal Reports, Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius), Interactive Analysis Forum Category

*Old Forum Name*	*New Forum Name*
Crystal Reports Design	SAP Crystal Reports
Legacy Application Development SDKs	SAP Crystal Reports – Legacy SDKs
Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius)	SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Data Connectivity – Crystal Reports	SAP Crystal Reports – Data Connectivity
.NET Development – Crystal Reports	SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio
Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius) SDK	Flex SDK Development
Java Development – Crystal Reports	SAP Crystal Reports, version for Eclipse
Interactive Analysis, OEM and Desktop edition	SAP Crystal Interactive Analysis [read-only]

Business Intelligence Forum Category

*Old Forum Name*	*New Forum Name*
BI General	Business Intelligence Old Forum (Read Only Archive)
Business Planning	Business Planning
Business Content and Extractors	Business Content and Extractors
BI in SAP NetWeaver 2004s	/community [original link is broken]
Data Warehousing	Data Warehousing
SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator	SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator
BI Suite – Business Explorer	SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx)

BusinessObjects SDK Application Development Forum Category

*Old Forum Name*	*New Forum Name*
.NET Development – BusinessObjects Enterprise, BusinessObjects Edge, Crystal Reports Server	.NET SDK Application Development
Development – Other	SAP BusinessObjects BI Legacy Products
Java Development – BusinessObjects Enterprise, BusinessObjects Edge, Crystal Reports Server	Java SDK Application Development

In addition the SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management was moved from the SAP NetWeaver Category to the new Enterprise Information Management Forum Category.

Please note that watch settings should not be affected, except for the /community [original link is broken] and that point categories have stayed the same.

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Former Member

October 4, 2010 at 4:39 am

so, we will no longer have BI, but are in a way going back to BW and we still have no single forum for Consolidations. i'm very confused.

Marc Bernard

October 4, 2010 at 9:40 am

Hello Greg,

two years ago we changed back to SAP NetWeaver BW to avoid the confusion with SAP BusinessObjects (which plays in the BI field). See also here: Important Name Change for Netweaver BI
This recent re-org is just catching up with this change.

Regarding consolidations, I don't fully understand why we would need a cross-product forum. Maybe you can start a thread in the "Suggestions" forum: SCN Support

Regards,
Marc
SAP Technology RIG

Former Member

October 4, 2010 at 11:21 am

i just did:

Consolidations

thx for the tip.

Henry Banks

April 2, 2012 at 4:56 pm

Hi,

please can these 2 entries be distinguished clearer ?

Legacy Products	SAP BusinessObjects BI Legacy Products
Other Business Objects Products	SAP BusinessObjects BI Legacy Products