Applies to:
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 SP4, SP6. For more information, visit the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards homepage.
Summary
This article describes the steps to make the dashboard files built with latest version of BusinessObjects Dashboards compatible with older version or to an older service pack within same version. The content in this article is intended for all those developers in Dashboards space who are dealing with the backward compatibility issue facing error message when opening files built on latest versions on the version of dashboards client they have one local machine. Steps in this article take an example of making Dashboards 4.0 SP6 XLF file to a Dashboards 4.0 SP4 compatible.
Author: Mallikarjuna Chary Narayandas
Company: Gyansys Inc.
Created on: September 14, 2013
Author Bio
The author has worked on several SAP BusinessObjects projects and has experience on using all the SAPBusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform tools. Author has experienceon working with SAPBusinessObjects mobile including designing and accessing BusinessObjects content (Web Intelligence Reports, Crystal Reports, Dashboards, Analysis and Information Spaces) through IPad / IPhone / Android.
Introduction
This article describes the steps to make the dashboard files built with latest version of BusinessObjects Dashboards compatible with older version or to an older service pack within same version. The content in this article is intended for all those developers in Dashboards space who are dealing with the backward compatibility issue facing error message when opening files built on latest versions on the version of dashboards client they have one local machine. Steps in this article take an example of making Dashboards 4.0 SP6 XLF file to a Dashboards 4.0 SP4 compatible.
As some of us already know, any dashboard that was built on latest version than your local client version cannot be opened straightway from your machine as it throws error message as below due to backward compatibility problems. Below steps help us in making the file compatible to the version we use on our local machine, so that we can access the same for our activities without having to upgrade to version of dashboards on which the file was built.

Steps to make XLF file version compatible:


Note: document.xml to be edited has to be outside the zip folder.


References and Related Content
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Space: SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards | SCN
For more information, visit SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform
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