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2166390 - Unable to Refresh Web Intelligence Document that uses an Excel file from a Network Share on UNIX

Symptom

  • A Web Intelligence (Webi) document has been created in the Web Intelligence Rich Client Interface that uses an Excel (.xls, .xlsx) file as the data source. This Excel file is located on a Windows share.
  • When refreshing the document in BI Launchpad, the end user sees the following Error Message: "File that is required to refresh the query cannot be found on the file system. File not found <Path of the Excel file> (IES 10851) (Error:INF)"
  • Issue is seen only on UNIX based deployments.


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Environment

  • SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1
  • SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x
  • UNIX

Product

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1 ; SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1

Keywords

excel webi refresh shared location, excel linux refresh shared drive, webi refresh excel linux, unix excel webi refresh, excel webi unix, bilaunchpad excel webi linux , KBA , BI-RA-WBI , Web Intelligence , Problem

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