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Known issue: BICs connections not releasing during Scheduling workflow.
If you've ever monitored the connection from your Adaptive Processing Server (the one that hosts the DSL Bridge) closely enough, you may have noticed some rogue connections to your BW servers. Up until...
View ArticleWebi load time increases after JRE 1.7.0_25 is installed client side.
Hey Webi community, As some of you will already know, Java 7 update 25 was recently released. The Web Intelligence RIA (aka Rich Internet Applet or Java Report Panel) is heavily reliant on the...
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Customer Connection Improvements in BI4.1 Based on User Group Input
As I explain here Influencing via Customer Connection to Enable the Installed Base – Web Intelligence customer connection improvements usually come through SAP notes or adapts, obtaining user group...
View ArticleImportant information for SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence customers -...
There is an important update that we would like to share with you that, if acted on quickly, will avoid a potential issue for your end users. **PLEASE NOTE - this does not affect ALL product versions**...
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How to suppress "no data to fetch" warning message?
Hi All, We must have come across such scenario in which we get this warning message when our query does not return any data. In some scenarios, this message is not acceptable for customers and they...
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Sorting data in charts Webi 4.0
In BOXI 3.1 ,we can sort the Chart Time dimensions like Cal Month ,Fiscal Period , Fiscal Week with an alerter. We Show [Key] in chart and write an alerter [Key]=[Key] then show [Text]. But after...
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HOT… !!! BCM (Business Communication Management) reporting using BOBJ
How to Create SAP BCM Reports in BO?IntroductionSAP Business Objects Web Intelligence enables reporting users to view available reports, export reports to various data formats and subscribe...
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Alerters in Webi 4.0 Charts
Hi All, Very often we are expecting Alerters in Webi Charts like in Xcelsius (Conditional Formatting) .Yet we don't have direct call , but it can be possible in Webi 4.0. Workaround* I want color...
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Possible workarounds to enable hierarchy node variable as prompt in Webi...
Background: Suppose we have a Bex query with hierarchy node variable for a characteristic(like Profit Center) in the filter screen.We have a Webi report(BO 3.x) created on the Universe on top of...
View ArticleFinally a 64-bit driver for UNV to SAP BW (BAPI) connections on Windows!
This one goes out to all of those XI 3.1 customers that heavily utilized UNV access to SAP BW using the BAPI network layer. As most of you should know by now, the long awaited BI 4.1 product released...
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FormatDate function with different Parameters in Web Intelligence 4.0
Formatdate() function got various parameters which can helps us in avoiding replacement path in BEx queries to get date related values like Month Name, Number etc. in Column names.You can find list of...
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Webi Rich Client doesn’t launch (incompatibility between Webi and Dashboards...
Hi all, First of all I apologize for my English and clarify that this one is a personal experience that I solved in a certain way and that I am sharing in case it might help someone. Finally, after...
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Creating and Publishing Web Intelligence Documents for SAP Business Objects
This document explains the steps necessary to create and schedule a publication for dynamic recipients on SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise for a WebIntelligence Report.This document is based on SAP BO XI...
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alternate row colors in a break
Some days ago I had the requirement to show alternate row colors in a break.In fact that I was missing a SCN-Entry about this - there we go: (I am using BO 4.0) Requirement: Solution: 1. I create a...
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Aligning the Column headers to Data in Exporting Webi to Text
There has been some questions being asked recently that when exporting a Webi Report to text the column header are not getting aligned to text. I I though of sharing a work around which might prove...
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Webi tricks : Selecting Top N customers by Sales Percentage using a Slider
Recently stumbled upon a discussion post which describes a very nice use case for customer interaction using a slider type of input control.So basically the slider will have a range of 0-100 % and...
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BI 4.1 - Design-time query not available (WIS 00000) Error with some BEx queries
Hey Webi World. I have been seeing a number of customers reporting the below error after upgrading to BI 4.1 so I wanted to release a few details to help those that experience this issue. First of all,...
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BO Client Installation and configuration
To create the BO Objects like UDT/IDT etc.. we need to install the BI Client tools (SAP BO BI Platform) in client machine first . Well in majority of companies all these installation process might be...
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To get correct values in Summary BOBJ WEBI reports by using Bex query
This blog will help to understand logic involved to get correct values in BOBJ WEBI reports. Step1) Bex query at detail level has two KF’s ie. Sales qty, Basic price Material, Customer ID and Sales...
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Business Objects 4.0 SP2 UNV to UNX Conversion Join Issue & Solution
Business Objects 4.0 SP2 UNV to UNX Conversion Join Issue: After Converting the Universe from UNV to UNX: a) 1) The Inner Join will become Left/Right Join. E.g. Join between the...
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