Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint

Version 1.0
Release Notes
July 25, 2012

IMPORTANT: This document describes version 1.0 of Vista Plus Interface for
SharePointthe first release of this product. It includes compatibility information,
descriptions of the features in version 1.0, and known issues. OpenText recommends that
you read this document in conjunction with the other documentation included with the
software. If any conflicts exist, the information in this document supersedes other Vista
Plus Interface for SharePoint documentation.
Check the Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint section of the OpenText Knowledge Center
at https://knowledge.opentext.com for any patches or documentation updates that may have
been posted after the initial release of this version of Vista Plus.
Note

The Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint is part of the Vista Plus product suite.
These products are now marketed as OpenText Report and Output
Management. They are listed on the Knowledge Center under both the old
and new names.

Table of Contents
General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Packaging and Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Compatibility and Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Features in Version 1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Known Issues and Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Installation Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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General Information

General Information
Vista Plus is unique in its ability to capture and ingest report output generated from
"legacy" mainframes, ERP and other large batch scheduled jobs. The new integration in
Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint seamlessly exposes Vista Plus report content within
SharePoint, extending the content sources and data types available to SharePoint and
providing a single user experience when searching or viewing mixed content.
This document contains four sections: supported configurations, descriptions of the
features in version 1.0, a list of known issues, and installation notes.

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Packaging and Documentation

Packaging and Documentation

Downloads and documentation for Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint are available from
the Vista Plus downloads section of the OpenText Knowledge Center (https://
knowledge.opentext.com/).

Packaging and Delivery Information

The software and documentation for Report & Output Management Interface for
Microsoft SharePoint includes:

A Microsoft Installation (MSI) file to install the interface software on the SharePoint
primary Web server

The Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint Installation and Administration Guide

These Release Notes

For More Information

For instructions on installing, configuring, and administering the Vista Plus Interface for
SharePoint, please see the Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint Administration Guide.
For instructions on performing searches using the interfaces custom Web part for
SharePoint, please see the help file available from the Web part.
For complete instructions on using Vista Plus, please see the Vista Plus manuals and
online help, especially:

The Vista Plus Server Administration Guide

The Vista Plus Server Admin client online help

The Vista Plus Web View online help

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Compatibility and Requirements

Compatibility and Requirements

Note

Important! All Vista Plus products and components are supported only with
released versions of underlying software. Using Vista Plus with any beta or
pre-release version of a host operating system, Web browser, or other
required software is not supported.
These software versions were supported when this document was published.
However, we can effectively support the product only with software versions
that are also supported by their suppliers. If a software vendor drops support
for one of the listed versions, we will no longer be able to support the product
with that version.

Vista Plus
Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint requires the versions shown below, or later versions, of
each Vista Plus component:
Component

Version

Vista Plus Server

5.5.2.40

Notes

5.6.0.40
Server Administration Client

5.5.2.140

Web Service API

1.3

Note

See the Release Notes for your version of Vista Plus for compatibility
information and requirements for your Vista Plus software.

Microsoft SharePoint
Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint is compatible with SharePoint 2010 Standard and
Enterprise. It is not supported with SharePoint Foundation, or with earlier versions of
SharePoint.

Operating System and Database

Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint has no special operating system or database
requirements beyond those of the Vista Plus and SharePoint systems it is used with. See
your Vista Plus and/or SharePoint documentation for their requirements.

Other
Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint requires Microsoft .NET Framework, version 4.0, on the
primary SharePoint Web server where you will install the interface.

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Features in Version 1.0

Features in Version 1.0

Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint 1.0 features these capabilities:

User mapping between Vista Plus users/groups and Active Directory users using
either manual or automatic mapping.

The ability to import Vista Plus users into SharePoint

Secure Vista Plus index search capability through a defined user name, password,
host, and port. Users are only presented with report content that is specific to their
requirements or access rights, including entire reports, report segments, or specific
pages.

An index search can include content from more than one Vista Plus server.

Search results are presented in a 'hit' list to the user for further drill down and
viewing.

Vista Plus report generations may be pushed to SharePoint using Vista Plus
SmartAlarms.

Report content, whether found through a search or opened from the users SharePoint
report list, can be viewed from any location within a standard browser client.

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Known Issues and Limitations

Known Issues and Limitations

Version 1.0 of the Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint contains the known issues described
below:

This version of the interface does not support searching multiple Vista Plus servers
with the same global index search. Any SharePoint user can search only one Vista Plus
server, even if his user name is mapped to names on more than one Vista Plus server.
Chapter 4 of the Administration Guide details how the interface determines which Vista
Plus server to search for each user.

The Vista Plus server host cannot be running HP-UX on a RISC processor.

When a Vista Plus generation is moved offline or deleted, any URLs created for it in
SharePoint are not deleted. If a user clicks on one of these orphan URLs, they
receive a Report Open Failed error from Web View, because the generation is no
longer at the location the URL points to.
Currently, the only way to delete these URLs is from the report list in SharePoint. A
user with delete permission for the Vista Plus Reports list can select and delete any
URL which no longer works. However, since each URL appears in the list only for the
user(s) that the SmartAlarm action created it for, it is possible for there to be no one
with both delete permission for the list and access to the URL.

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Installation Notes

Installation Notes
Detailed installation instructions are contained in the Vista Plus Interface for SharePoint
Installation and Administration Guide.

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