Web Application Designer - Bug

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I keep losing all my BW URL's in Web Application Designer and it is becoming very frustrating.

For some reason when I save a template after making changes it sometimes replaces all the BW URL's which I have coded with:-

<A href="[SAP_BW_URL_!IID_688]">

And I have to go through and put them all back in again.

Is there something I can do to stop this happening?

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Sean,

this post also sounds familiar but I do not see it in my Web Designer , which version of BI are you on ?

Is it NW2004s by any chance ?

Arun

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are using version 3.1 currently but are upgrading to 3.5 next month.

It appears from the link above that I am not the only one experiencing this so I feel a bit better about it now! It happens all the time tho and is very time consuming to go through fixing all the URLs.

Sean.

[Former Member]

Just to give a bit more info.

It seems to happen when it does a syntax check and flashes through page. If you notice it before the next save you can just close it down and re-open and the original URL is still there. But if you don't notice its happened soon enough and you save it, then you have to put them all back in again!

[Former Member]

Sean,

Actually It happened with me too once, I lost all my icons like download to excel, exception, conditions etc and then had to put that back again.

But after that I have made chnages and it didnt happen, It think it happens if you are in HTML tab at the bottom and are trying to chnage the html code, like your gif file path or something, then when you reactivate it messes some of the custom code in it. So please try to be out of HTML mode while reactivating......

I have another issue though, I have a gif file in the html code that i uploaded from MIME repository. This file has the path of dev system example sapb83.com....

sapb83 points to out dev system, now when i transport this to our Production system, while excution of query from BEX Browser, it prompts for dev passoword becasue of the gif file path being from dev..... how can this be made dynamic ??

thanks

surendra Jain

PS: SEAN, if you have upgraded to 3.5, please tell me your expereince with upgrade, we are also on 3.1 and will upgrade soon to 3.5, are there some hurdles which if i know before hand will help?? if you would like to share, my email is SURENDRA.JAIN@VISHAY.COM

[Former Member]

I haven't seen this before. What version of BI are you on?