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Manually Create BusinessObjects Accounts

We recommend this approach if you have only a small number of reviewers. After installing CA Business Intelligence:

1. Manually create a unique BusinessObjects account for each of your iConsole reviewers.

   Note: An acknowledged problem in BusinessObjects Enterprise means that the BusinessObjects account name must not contain a '\' backslash character. There are two workarounds:

   • Specify a new name without a backslash, or
   • Apply a CA fix to permit backslashes in account names. Find the instructions in the next section.

   Example: For user unipraxis\srimmel, create a BusinessObjects account unipraxis_srimmel.
   For user lsteel, create a BusinessObjects account under the same name, lsteel.

2. Assign these new BusinessObjects accounts to an appropriate BusinessObjects user group. These groups are 'CA Data Protection Reports Administrator', 'CA Data Protection Reports Author', and 'CA Data Protection Reports Viewer'.
3. Do the following for all accounts whose BOE account name is not identical to their CA Data Protection account name:
   1. Provide each of your iConsole reviewers with the name and password of their new BusinessObjects account.
   2. When a reviewer first runs a BusinessObjects report or launches InfoView from the iConsole, the iConsole prompts them for their BusinessObjects user name and password. The reviewer must enter these credentials once only. Thereafter, CA Data Protection remembers the credentials. The reviewer is not prompted for them again in any future iConsole sessions.

      If the reviewer enters incorrect credentials, or enters credentials that have already been used by another CA Data Protection reviewer, the logon fails. The iConsole fails to connect to BusinessObjects Enterprise and the reviewer is unable to run a BusinessObjects report or launch InfoView.

More information:

CA Fix to Permit Backslashes in BusinessObjects User Names