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APD Report Output with Negative Sign
Purpose: Making data available from BW system to another system is common and regular activity. When extracting data from Report or any other sources we may have negative values like 100- , while...
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BI reports safety belt in Portal and Bex Analyzer
Hi All, Here is my first blog post .. As SAP suggested few safety belt s-notes to avoid server(JAVA stack) crashes and improve the fastness of server. Many end users will run the BEx reports without...
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New tool for BW/BI integration and performance testing -> BExTest
How to perform integration tests of BEx Analyzer Workbooks and the corresponding queries? We have all encountered this problem - new support packages are installed, changes are made to your BW...
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Trick to view BEx Variable Properties without going in edit mode
Hi Folks, This is my first blog post in SDN and I want to share a simple Bex trick with you. Some of you might already know it. while creating a BEx query, we often want to use the variables that are...
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Reorganizing and deleting bookmarks
Bookmarks are saved navigational states of a Web application.In the bookmark functional area of the Reporting Agent, one can manage the bookmarks created in the system for all BW system users.Many a...
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How to build geomaps with BW/BEx data using SAP BusinessObjects BI Location...
This post is about geovisualization and spatial analysis of BEx data with SAP BusinessObjects BI Location Intelligence.SAP BusinessObjects BI Location Intelligence is a geomapping extension for SAP BI...
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When your BEx report execution turns into 'Not Responding'
As BW developers, we expect users to show some patience when they are executing BEx queries. Even when the window turns to 'Not Respondin' for a while. If its a rare occurance then we disregard it...
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Dear Community, 8 years after the release of SAP Netweaver 7.0 and the introduction of BI Java Runtime as the official frontend for the 7.0 BEx Tools (WAD, Query Designer) we still have questions about...
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How to Display Unit/Currency as Separate column in BEx Analyzer
Blog OverviewIn SCN community, noticed few people asking how to display unit as separate column instead of behind the value. Initial I thought its quite complex as we have only two options. Modeling...
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How to Derive Status Column in BEx Designer (WITHOUT Virtual...
Blog Overview Issue In Past few years SAP BEx designer changed/improved and added few options, however never added an option like deriving characters/strings/flags or status based on business logic (...
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Reporting Statistics Report in SAP BW
In BW Reporting scenarios, business or application manager who deals with the BW reporting requires a report, how many times does the report executed by which user, on what timing, DB time at the time...
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How to verify a Workbook last used date
Hi BEx community, These days I came across a requirement to find out when was the last used date of a certain Workbook. I could not find an easy way to enter the Workbook title and simply get the...
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Few important commands in WAD in SAP BI - Part1
Web Application Designer (WAD) is used to design templates for the report embedded in it. Usually report simply provides an excel based output. In addition to this WAD can provide some extra...
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Few important commands in WAD in SAP BI - Part 2
In addition to the "Few important commands in WAD in SAP – Part 1", in this blog I would like to share few more useful commands those usually use in many reporting scenarios. Context Web Item:The...
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How to find "Where Used List of InfoObject Value In BEx Report",
Objective: Every organization use multiple reports like Sales, Shipping, Billing and Profit & Loss to make good business decision. In this all areas we might have developed and used huge BEx...
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How to Set up the Customizing Currency Display in Query Output
Recently I saw some customers raised incidents about the currency display in the query output. It's not very often to request the customizing currency display, but BW indeed provides the functionality...
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Run Report SAP_RSDDCHNGRCHECK_CLEANUP with Option DELCNSID
Recently I met a situation that the customer can not delete the relevant entries from table RSDDCHNGRCHECK using the Clean-up report SAP_RSDDCHNGRCHECK_CLEANUP with option DELCNSID. Although the...
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YTD Time Structure – Using SAP Standard Variable
YTD Time Structure – Using SAP Standard Variable A key figure nee to display under A structural Frame that include , YTDLY YTDLY PeriodDynamic Display of 12 Rolling Period User Prompt: 0P_FPER (Fiscal...
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Unexpected values in Bex Query? Check out SAP collective notes for...
Hi BEx Community, After you import a Support Package for your SAP NetWeaver BW you notice unexpected values/numbers when consuming a BEx Query (or even a BW Infoprovider directly) or reading...
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Bex Query going into debug mode in RSRT? Check here how to find the solution
Hi BEx community, Not rare a BEx Query goes into debug mode when you test it in transaction RSRT due to an exception raised during the query execution.Here I will show you an easy step to increase...
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