How to add "Others" in a pie chart with ranking in Webi
How to Bring “Others” in a Pie chart when ranking is applied in the data. Let’s say there is a set of Region and there Revenue like below:RegionRevenueEast...
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Ways by which you can improve the performance of Business Objects. These are:Improving performance of UniverseImproving Performance of ReportsImproving Performance of Business Objects serversImproving...
View ArticleFreeze & Query Stripping in WebI 4.1
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is a query, reporting, and analysis tool used to build reports from relational and OLAP data sources and to analyze data using features such as filters, conditional...
View ArticleWebi tricks : Interactive selecting and viewing TOPn data
Hi everyone, In this trick I will show you how to dynamically display data tables with differents ranks in Read mode without entering in Design mode.Application : Web Intelligence 4.1 SP2 Use Case : I...
View ArticleBusiness Objects 4.0 SP2 Webi Report Repointing Issue and Solution
Business Objects 4.0 SP2 Webi Report Repointing Issue and Solution Issue : When we try to repoint report which is having more than one data provider/query from existing universe to New Universe, after...
View ArticleScope of Analysis
As the name suggests it defines the scope of analyzing the data when you are drilling the report.So let’s see what exactly it is.Let’s say I have a hierarchy in universe...
View ArticleFeature differences between the Web Intelligence clients (BI4.1 SP02)
_______________________________________________Overview. The aim of this document is to provide you with an overview of the main functionnal differences that exist between all the Web Intelligence...
View ArticleAdding Element Link on BW Bex Hierarchy Objects
It's a common requirement in Webi nowadays to have linking of tables in webi. So based on the selection of one dimension in one table the dimension of other table should get restricted to it. For...
View ArticleGetting the Timezone offset to be used in a printable manor
I had a requirement to produce a report that showed dates and times of certain events in a table. The main problme I had is that the timestamps were stored on teh server as UTC timestamps, which means...
View Articlepie chart with two measure in BO XI 3.1
Description: We normally use web intelligence pie chart to show the data using one dimension and one measure. But what about when we need to use two measure with pie chart. Looks bit difficult. Below...
View ArticleWebi Tricks: Displaying table data in Calendar format
Hello, Recently, I came across interesting blog in crystal reports space from Jamie where he designed a report to display data in calendar format. So I took this same idea and wanted to reproduce this...
View ArticleWhen is a chart not a chart?
I'd like to share a mechanism I use to create the above table & graphic. For this example we are using a very simple E-Fashion query:The basis of this mechanism is using the FILL function to...
View ArticlePie Chart with Ranking and Others in Web Intelligence
Pie Chart with Ranking and Others in Web Intelligence: Pie chart always display total out of 100. And if you have ranking (that is restricting few rows) then it will not depict the actual or correct...
View ArticleScheduled Reports & User input in Prompts
Often when you schedule a report, you’ll use a “Current date” object to ensure the data returned is from the date the report was scheduled.But sometimes you want your end users to be able to refresh...
View ArticleSetting up the correct client-side JRE for Webi Rich Internet Applet
A lot of the support calls I get on result in a short tutorial on how the web browser is utilizing the Java Runtime Engine (JRE) to run the Web Intelligence Rich Internet Applet (RIA) aka Java Report...
View ArticleDate Variables in Web Intelligence
Dear All, Here in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Space, it is noted that many of us are searching/asking questions on Date/Time Dimensions.I am submitting all necessary formulas for the same....
View ArticleSelectively Opening Latest Instances by Default (3.x)
Sometimes you want your users to open the latest instance of a report and not the report itself. Sadly, this option is set as a global default across Infoview - when you click on a report you can...
View ArticleDynamic default values with prompt in webi reports (based on bex queries) in BO
There has always been requirement wherein webi reports in BO are scheduled to run periodically for dynamic prompt values.For e.g. We have reports which are scheduled to run monthly with cal.year...
View ArticleEstablishing Matches Within Merged Dimensions
Here’s a little trick I use for establishing matches in merged dimensions. I’m using the Island Resorts Universe to demonstrate. Let’s say I have the Sales Data for 2006 to establish which customers...
View ArticleLinear & Polynomial Trend Lines in Webi
Currently, there is no option to draw a linear or polynomial trend line in a webi chart. However, we can use mathematical calculations to overcome the challenge.In this post, I utilize eFashion...
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