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As long as you have had one successful logon to Designer, Designer allows you to work in offline mode. This essentially means that you are not interacting with the repository. This may be useful if you wish to make changes to a universe while you are working on a notebook computer or if the repository database is otherwise unavailable for maintenance or due to a dreaded system failure. Personally, I have never used the offline option. Even if the repository is not available, it's unwise to make changes to a universe that is potentially out of date. Now, if you are the sole universe designer in your company and you know for an absolute fact that the universe on your hard disk is the latest version, then you may be thankful for the offline mode. If your company has multiple universe designers, working offline can be risky. Further, the offline mode applies only to the repository. Designer will still need to access the RDBMS to get current data dictionary information to create or modify classes and objects. If you are working on a notebook computer, offline, Designer will give you an error message when trying to refresh information about your data sources.

Designer maintains security in offline mode by the C:\Program Files\BusinessObjects\BusinessObjects 5.0\LocData\sdac.lsi (secure data account, local security information). (Note: the .lsi file may actually be under ShData and may have an extension of .ssi for shared security information. These details are not important here; it matters only that one of the files exists, or offline access will not work.) Each time you log into one of the BusinessObjects modules, the .lsi file is updated with your user ID and password. When you log into Designer in offline mode, Designer checks that your user ID and password match what is in the .lsi file. If they do not match, you receive a message that your login is not valid.



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Business Objects(c) The Complete Reference
Cisco Field Manual: Catalyst Switch Configuration
ISBN: 72262656
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 206

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