Universe Description Appears Duplicated in IDT

Universe Description Appears Duplicated in Information Design Tool (IDT)

Overview

A known behavior has been identified when updating a Universe description outside of the Information Design Tool (IDT), including updates performed by 360Suite.
After a description is modified and saved in the Central Management Console (CMC), retrieving the Universe in IDT may result in the description field displaying both the previous and current values concatenated together.

Affected Products

  1. SAP BusinessObjects Information Design Tool (IDT)
  2. SAP BusinessObjects Central Management Console (CMC)
  3. 360Suite (when updating Universe descriptions)


Symptoms

The description displayed in IDT does not match the value stored in the repository.
Example:
  1. A Universe description is updated in IDT to add "EDITED FROM IDT".

  2. The Universe is republished.
  3. The description is then modified in the CMC to changed to "EDITED FROM CMC".

  4. After performing "Retrieve Universe" in IDT, the description may appear duplicated instead of displaying only the latest value.


Investigation Results

Our investigations confirmed the following:
  • The value stored in the BusinessObjects repository (InfoStore) is correct.
  • The SI_DESCRIPTION property contains the latest description entered through the CMC.

  • 360Suite updates the SI_DESCRIPTION property using the same mechanism as a manual update performed through the CMC.
  • The issue only affects the way the description is interpreted or displayed by IDT after a Universe retrieval operation.

Root Cause

Based on our analysis, this behavior originates from the SAP Information Design Tool (IDT).
360Suite does not maintain a separate description field and has no capability to influence how IDT processes or displays the description retrieved from the repository.


Workaround

At this time, no workaround is available within 360Suite.
Customers may verify the effective description by:
  • Checking the Universe properties in the CMC.
  • Querying the corresponding object in the InfoStore.
Both locations reflect the actual value stored in the repository.

Recommendation

If this behavior impacts your environment, we recommend opening a case with SAP Support for further investigation and confirmation of whether this is a known IDT limitation or defect.