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SAP Business One 8.8

Expert Empowerment Session

SAP Business One 8.8 PL12

Installing SAP Business One 8.8 Integration Component

Preview about upcoming Dashboard Technology

Activating Sample Dashboards

Benno Eberle

Roll-Out Services, Small Business GTM

June 2010

SAP Business One 8.8 ► Expert Empowerment Session© SAP 2010 / Page 2

1. Install the Integration Component

2. Explain how to activate the Dashboard widget

Objectives

At the end of this session, you will be able to:


Agenda

1. Installing Integration Component for SAP Business One 8.8

1.1 Prerequisites

1.2 Additional Information

1.3 Installing Integration Component

1.4 Enable the Dashboard Widget in SAP Business One 8.8 PL12

1.4.1 General Settings

1.4.2 Licenses

2. Dashboard Overview

2.1 Setup Dashboard Widget

2.2 Cockpit & Dashboard Authorization

2.3 Overview Service Dashboard

3. Troubleshooting


1.1 Prerequisites

Step 1 (see session “Activating the Cockpit (excluding dashboards)”

Installed SAP Business One 8.8 PL12 (or newer) Server and Client

Installed SAP Business One DI API

Activated Cockpit for your company database

Step 2

Please check hardware requirements (Supported Platforms).Please note that the additional hardware requirements is very important for the

performance of the whole system.

Step 3

Installed Java Development Kit Standard Edition 5.0 (JDK SE or J2SE) on the

server (don’t use Version 6)

Installed Adobe Flash Version 9 or newer on the client

Note: For more detailed prerequisites and information for 64bit OS please check the

“Installation Guide for the Integration Component”

https://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700001241092005/



SAP Business One 8.8 Landing page:

http://channel.sap.com/sbo/88

SAP Business One Innovations Landing page:

http://channel.sap.com/sbo/innovations

For last-minute information

Check the ReadMe delivered with the downloaded packages

Documentation delivered with the installation package

Working with the Cockpit (SAP Note 1471016)

Solution Overview of the Integration Component

Installation Guide for the Integration Component

Administrator Guide for the Integration Component

Working with Dashboards in the Integration Component

http://channel.sap.com/sbo/88



https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1471016



Copy/Expand the B1ic Installation package to your local hard drive

(write access required)

Start setup.exe (folder ia32 for 32 bit OS or x64 for 64 bit OS)


1.3.1 Installing Integration Component

Select the JDK 5.0 folder



Enter a new B1iadmin password

Note: This password is required to logon to the Integration framework and change any settings



Enter an existing MS SQL User name and password

Note: This password is required for the Integration framework to access MS SQL data



Enter name of SAP Business One database on your DB-Server to be used with the

Integration component

Insert the password of your SAP Business One user “B1i”

Note:The B1i password here needs to be identical with the one you assigned in SAP Business One

Note:Currently the setup is restricted to configure one database only.

Check the administrator guide how to configure additional databases.



EventSender Setup

Check all prefilled values



EventSender Setup

Check all prefilled values and enter the password for the “B1iadmin” user

Test the connection before going to the next step

Note: Proxy Host values should be left empty as long the different components of the

Integration solution is installed on one server.



EventSender Setup

Select databases to use with the Integration component

Note: If B1iSN is installed besides the entered database other databases may be selected as

well. Please check Maintenance and Monitoring in the Administration Guide.


1.4 SAP Business One 8.8 PL12

Enable the Dashboard Widget

After installation of the integration components the following settings needs

to done in SAP Business One:

Assign licenses to the SAP Business One user “B1i”

Enter general settings in SAP Business One


1.4.1 SAP Business One 8.8 PL12

User Licenses

Assign the following licenses to the user “B1i”

B1iINDIRECT_MSS

B1i

Note: If there is no license available please release the license from another user it is currently

assigned to

Note: SAP Business One License includes these types of users by default (at no additional cost)


1.4.2 SAP Business One 8.8 PL12

General Settings

Enter B1i Server Address

Enable the Dashboard Widget

Note: The B1i Server Address has the following format (replace server name):http://<server_name>:8080/B1iXcellerator/exec/ipo/vP.001sap0004.in_HCSX/com.sap.b1i.vplatform.runtime/INB_HT_CALL_

SYNC_XPT/INB_HT_CALL_SYNC_XPT.ipo/proc

Note: You need to logon again to make this changes effective


Agenda


1.1 Prerequisites





1.4.2 Licenses





3. Troubleshooting



Introducing Preview Of Dashboard

SAP Business One 8.8 PL12 delivers a first framework to

run Dashboards.

Delivered Dashboard content in PL12 is intended to be

limited to preview and example purposes. SAP wants to

obtain feedback from partners.

Moving forward, SAP intends to continue to deliver

improved dashboard capabilities in the 8.8 release family.

Productive usage of dashboards could be possible, but

under the responsibility of the partner and customer.

Special attention needs to be given to upfront testing,

especially performance testing.

Hardware requirements, complexity of dashboards and

volume of data retrieval can significantly influence

performance and experience.

Even though it is possible to develop own dashboards (how-

to-guide to be released), please consider that the process is

very manual and technical at this moment in time. There

are currently no tools or wizards.



Choose Settings and select the dashboard to show in this dashboard widget


2.2 Cockpit & Dashboard

Authorization

In order to use the Dashboard Widget in the Cockpit the following

permissions needs to be assigned to the user



User can interact with the Dashboard and drill-down to detailed data

Change time axis

Filter on Itemgroups

Click for

detailed

information


Agenda


1.1 Prerequisites





1.4.2 Licenses





3. Troubleshooting


3. Troubleshooting - 1

When you are getting an authorization error (401) please check if you entered the correct

password for the Business One user „B1i“

■ try to logon to SAP Business One with user „B1i“ and this password

■ If necessary apply new password


3.1 Troubleshooting - 2

When you are getting an internal server error (500) please

Check if you entered the correct B1i Server Address in General Settings:Cockpit



When you are getting an file not found error (404) please

Check if all services related to the B1i Integration Component are running

After starting all relevant services deactivate the dashboard widgets, logon again and

activate the dashboard widgets. Now all dashboards should be deployed.



If you are getting a placeholder grafic instead of a dashboard but no error the

Adobe Flash Player is missing

Please download and install Adobe Flash Player 9.0 or newer

www.adobe.com

http://www.adobe.com/


Thank you!

Benno Eberle

Roll-Out Services, Small Business GTM

June 2010

SAP Business One 8.8

Expert Empowerment Session


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