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

Objectives

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

1. Install the Integration Component
2. Explain how to activate the Dashboard widget

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Agenda

1. Installing Integration Component for SAP Business One 8.8

1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4

Prerequisites
Additional Information
Installing Integration Component
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
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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 (dont 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
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1.2 Additional Information

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

Working

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Guide for the Integration Component

with Dashboards in the Integration Component

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1.3 Installing Integration Component

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)

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1.3.1 Installing Integration Component

Select

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the JDK 5.0 folder

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1.3.2 Installing Integration Component

Enter

a new B1iadmin password

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

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1.3.3 Installing Integration Component

Enter

an existing MS SQL User name and password

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

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1.3.4 Installing Integration Component

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.
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1.3.5 Installing Integration Component

EventSender Setup
Check

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all prefilled values

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1.3.6 Installing Integration Component

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.
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1.3.7 Installing Integration Component

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.
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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

Enter

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licenses to the SAP Business One user B1i

general settings in SAP Business One

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1.4.1 SAP Business One 8.8 PL12

User Licenses
Assign the following licenses to the user B1i
B1iINDIRECT_MSS
B1i

Note:
Note:

If there is no license available please release the license from another user it is currently
assigned to
SAP Business One License includes these types of users by default (at no additional cost)

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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

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Agenda

1. Installing Integration Component for SAP Business One 8.8

1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4

Prerequisites
Additional Information
Installing Integration Component
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
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2. Dashboard Overview
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 (howto-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.

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2.1 Setup Dashboard Widget

Choose

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Settings and select the dashboard to show in this dashboard widget

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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

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2.1 Overview Service Dashboard

User

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

Click for
detailed
information
Change time axis
Filter on Itemgroups

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Agenda

1. Installing Integration Component for SAP Business One 8.8

1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4

Prerequisites
Additional Information
Installing Integration Component
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
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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

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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

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3.2 Troubleshooting - 3

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.
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3.3 Troubleshooting - 4

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

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Thank you!
Benno Eberle
Roll-Out Services, Small Business GTM
June 2010

SAP Business One 8.8

Expert Empowerment Session
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