Re: to_date error
My admin is trying to sort that out Dirk.We've granted permission as per article, but alas no joy.Suspect it might be something to do with the 'Granular' as opposed to 'Full Control' .... having a hard...
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Or with the inheritance of the rights...Have your admin check the rights of your user (2nd screenshot - select your user then: View Security).Security setup is actually part of the BI platform. That's...
View ArticleRe: Group By Error
Hi Simon, If you are using IS 4.2, you can achieve the desired result by defining the view in 2 stages: 1) Create IS view (IS_VIEW_1) to select:Column 1:...
View ArticleRe: IS Rules with text substrings searches
Hi Thomas, In IS 4.1 you can use any of the following: LIKE in an expressione.g. IF (upper($NAME) LIKE '%INTERNAL%') ....match_regex()match_pattern() - as suggested above Regards Nigel
View ArticleExport / Import Views being skipped
I am trying to promote a project from our Dev instance to QA but when I do 9 of the 30 Views are skipped with an XML error. I am aware of the known issue with the project name in the xml and have...
View ArticleRe: Wild Card
If you are using patterns or regular expressions then the period is the wildcard for any character and * means 0 or more occurances. The expression (.*[0-9].*) would search for a number anywhere in...
View ArticleLookahead Operator
I'm trying to use a lookahead operator (?=) in match_regex() to determine if a string has any one of a set of characters in any place but it doesn't appear to be matching. As a workaround I am using...
View ArticleRe: Export / Import Views being skipped
I discovered that if you use an aggregate such as count(*) where you don't reference a specific column, the xml that is generated is missing the required tags. There are tags for...
View ArticleRe: IS Rules with text substrings searches
Thanks for your responses. I implemented the like function and it is doing what I'm expecting. This is how I constructed it: BEGIN # define processing steps IF ((Upper($Color) like '%BLUE%') and...
View ArticleRe: Lookahead Operator
Hi Tag, Yes, the lookahead and lookbehind operators are supported. The Scripting Language - Functions section in the User Guide provides a full list of the supported regular expression patterns for...
View ArticleInformation Steward Tutorial
hi please is there any helpful tutorials to learn how to deal with information stewards 4.X ? Thank You
View ArticleIs it possible to copy or rename an existing project in Data Insight
Is it possible to copy or rename an existing project in Data Insight
View ArticleRe: Is it possible to copy or rename an existing project in Data Insight
Hi Asheesh, There is no facility in either the CMC or Data Insight to copy or rename projects. I think the reason you can't copy a project is because if the project contains private rules this would...
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Import / export of views that have joins and/or other views (DEV to PROD)
Hi experts, from what I've read one cannot use the normal Export/Inport mechanism in SAP IS.I'm having the error:with the log:"Starting import process at: 2/3/15 4:23 PMwhile trying to invoke the...
View ArticleRe: Import / export of views that have joins and/or other views (DEV to PROD)
Hi Tiago, This is identified as a known issue in IS 4.2.3 in KBA 2110378: http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2110378 I have seen this problem before and it can be caused by the...
View ArticleRestricting HR data when using SAP connection
Hi All, I have a question about HR data coming from SAP and how to restrict it to our other projects. We have multiple projects set up in Data Insight that will use SAP as a connection. The users are...
View ArticleRe: Restricting HR data when using SAP connection
There may be a better solution but here's the best I can think of. 1) SAP Security team creates a separate user for the HR team which has access only to the HR tables, another user id for the FI team...
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Facing an issue while testing a simple validation rule
Hi, I have been trying to run a simple validation rule in Information Steward and every time I try to test it, I am seeing this error message. We are on: IS 4.2 SP2DS 4.2.2MS SQL SERVER R2 Java...
View ArticleRe: Is it possible to copy or rename an existing project in Data Insight
Hi Nigel, Thanks for the prompt response. I will test the export and import function with a dummy project and update my post shortly Asheesh
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