BusinessObjects-Universe not Found WIS 00501

Let's try to explain the situation what we faced. You have two BusinessObjects environments. Our goal is export webi reports and universes to a biar file and import them to the target system.

Everything looks fine? Here comes the nightmare. You refresh the reports and



There are many possible reasons. Our root cause was security.

Under Central Management Console look to the "Universes" folder. On the "Rights" tab be sure there is a group which has access to this folder (Universes) and this group belongs to a group that want to view the webi reports.

For the second be sure that the same group has access to the Universe Connections. You can check this in Central Management Console->Universe Connections->Rights.

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