Monday 2 March 2009

How To Specify The Owner Of Workbooks On The Viewer Url Parameters ?

On Discoverer Viewer/Plus 9.0.4 it was possible to specify the Owner and Workbook Name on the same url parameter :

wb=.

In 10.1.2 this URL parameter is not getting the Owner anymore, just the workbook name.

This is because, the Discoverer Viewer is not checking whether owner name is prefixed to the workbook.

The fix has introduced a new URL parameter "wbkowner" to specify the Owner's name explicitly.

Hence if the owner needs to be specified then instead of prefixing the owner's name to workbook name the user needs to append new URL parameter "wbkowner=Owner's name".
Since, the "." a is valid character for workbook name, the Discoverer Viewer 10.1.2 wouldn't be able to differentiate whether the string of characters before "." in workbook name is owner's name string or substring of workbookname.

The fix is available on top from 10.1.2.3 + Cumulative Patch 2 onwards, where the parameter "wbkowner" can be used on the URL for Discoverer Viewer.

Discoverer Plus users should wait for internal bug to be fixed.

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