Last week I helped a coleague restore her properties pane in Framework Manager. The process is not as simple as you may think. I found in the Cognos knowledge base (Document# 1027649.1) how to accomplish this. Make sure you shut down Framework Manager before changing the “bmt.ini” file. Closing after changing will cause the “bmt.ini” file to be overwritten to the bad settings.
Applies To:
Cognos 8 BI Framework Manager 8.1 | Cognos 8 BI Install and Config 8.2
SRs:
8
Collection:
KB
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Description:
While moving around the different panes within the Framework Manager GUI, if the Project Viewer pane is accidently moved outside of the main Framework Manager frame, it disappears and there is no way to make it appear again from the GUI.
Root Cause:
The fact that Framework Manager GUI lets the user to move its different panes outside of the main frame of the application, and that there is no ‘Restore Default View’ type of button to put everything back in their default location.
Solution:
Modify the “bmt.ini” file by changing the “floating” values for the location of the pane that is misplaced to its default value. (e.g. left, right, or bottom)
Steps:
Locate the file called “bmt.ini” under “<c8-installation-path>\configuration” folder.
Open it up in any text editor and go the section that is called “<Section Name “BMTUI_VIEWSTATE”>.
Change any of the Location values that show up as “floating” to the desired ones. (The following entries are the default values):
<Preference Name=”explorerLocation”>left</Preference>
<Preference Name=”propertiesLocation”>bottom</Preference>
<Preference Name=”toolsLocation”>right</Preference>
Filed under: Framework Manager
