Short your BI Presentation url.

You and your end users got bored of typing lengthyyyy url or hard to remember dash board url? (http://localhost/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard or http://crypticservername-04hr01/analytics ) Do you want to shorten some thing like this http://BI/ then here is solution.

Step 1: Choose a short name for bi server or rhythmic words ( HRDash, SalesBI etc) keep it ready, edit host file i.e goto C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\ folder add new entry in host file with server name and IP.
In my example, I have added new entry with BI as server name and ip as 127.0.0.1
Step 2: Now create a new file “biserver.asp” and place this file under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\
Edit biserver.asp with following asp script(with out any space between < % or % >) then save this file.
< % @ LANGUAGE="JScript" % >
< % Response.Redirect("analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard"); % >
Step 3: Open IIS (run – inetmgr),
Step 4: Go to Default Web Sites in left pane,
Step 5: Right click on it,
Step 6: Select properties,
Step 7: Go to Documents tab,
Step 8: Click on Add button,
Step 9: Place “biserver.asp” in edit box say okay
Step 10: Make sure Enable Default Document check box is enabled and biserver.asp is top among all other files if not move it to top most
Step 11: Click on apply, click okay
Step 12: Close iis.

Now try to access bi server using http:// BI/

This method works only in windows environment and within intranet.

Hope you liked it.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Srinivas,

    Neat article. Just a quick question. this works only if IIS is running. Do you have any simular solutions for Tomcat ?

    Regards
    Krish

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  2. Hi Krish,

    If you can send me folder structure of web catalog and tomcat folder/web configuration details then I can give a try for you.

    Thanks for visiting and posting comment.

    --Srinivas

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  3. Hi,

    Could you post regarding Session and repository variables in detail...plzzz

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