How to Enable BI Search for Dashboards in Web Application?

On working with dashboards the following types of data source search are available: data source search by name and BI search of sources by their contents.

To enable BI search, the settings should be executed, which are described in the Setting Up BI Search Service subsection. To execute BI search in the web application, edit the PP.xml file:

  1. Open the PP.xml file for edit.

  1. Add the following code to the PP.xml file to the <pp> section:

<modules>
    <dashboard>
        <ReportBox BISearchEnabled="true" />
    </dashboard>
</modules>

  1. Save change and close the PP.xml file.

  2. Restart the web server used by the web application and BI server.

Example of the PP.xml File Containing Settings to Connect BI Search

<pp>
    <service url="http://localhost/fpBI_App_v9.2x64/axis2/services/PP.SOM.Som"/>
    <metabase id="FPRepository"/>
    <cultures>
        <culture cultureName="ru"/>
        <culture cultureName="en"/>
    </cultures>
    <Modules>
        <Dashboard>
            <ReportBox BISearchEnabled="true"/>
        </Dashboard>
    </Modules>
</pp>

See also:

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