Hi,
We are setting up Business Objects XI R2 primarily for Desktop Intelligence. We will not be using WEBI or InfoView. All users will run their reports via DESKI. However, the one thing I am puzzled about is the 2-tier and 3-tier mode. From my understanding 2-tier mode consists of DESKI and business objects server and 3-tier consists when InfoView comes into play. Is this correct? I tried running a report in 2-tier mode, by logging into the business objects server, it failed with a u201Cconnection or sql sentence error: (da00005) u2013 unable to create connectionu201D. However, after setting up 3-tier key, by logging into InfoView and selecting new > desktop intelligence document, it created a 3-tier file: @xir2dev_dotnet.extranet in the locdata folder and I was able to run the same report against the universe.
Am I missing something? I thought you only need the 3-tier key only if you plan on using InfoView, is this correct? If we need to create the key, we will need the users to log into InfoView for the first time.
Any information will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Raja