How To Enable \ Disable the Authentication Type Dropdown field in BI Launchpad

Procedure :

• Navigate to the default BOE webapp directory in Tomcat (i.e. <installdir>\SAP BusinessObjects\Tomcat<version>\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\default)
• Copy the BIlaunchpad.properties to the custom directory (i.e. <installdir>\SAP BusinessObjects\Tomcat<version>\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\custom)
• Find the authentication.visible=false parameterChange the value to authentication.visible=true (Set this to false to disable the authentication field).
• Save the changes to the modified file
• Restart Tomcat for the changes to take effect
• Repeat 1-6 on all Tomcats in the environment
• Copy the BIlaunchpad.properties file to <installdir>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\warfiles\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\custom to retain the change through upgrades

Suggestion:

• Installation directory path may differ in linux system <installdir>\sap_bobj\...
• Shutdown the Tomcat before making changes.
• Always clear the client system browser cache after the successful restart of the tomcat.