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End-to-End Trace and Identifying Root Cause for BI 4.x Web Intelligence
I support Web Intelligence (WebI) for a living. I talk to WebI and it talks to me. Mind you, it doesn't talk to just anyone - especially when it's encountering issues. You have to know how to talk to...
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Freehand SQL (FHSQL) is coming to Web Intelligence
Dear All, For all report developers and users that currently are using Desktop Intelligence and especially the well beloved Freehand SQL (FHSQL) function, there is some good news around the corner.....
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Dynamic Visibility - Input Controls with Ranking
This document helps you to understand Dynamic Visibility of blocks on selection of Input controls with Ranking applied....Hope it helps... Dynamic Visibility – Input Controls with Ranking.Imagine that,...
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Influence the World’s Leading BI Tools with SAP’s Idea Place
Can the collective wisdom of crowds be a successful driver for increasing the overall effectiveness of enterprise BI tools?The answer appears to be a resounding ‘YES’ based on the successes of SAP’s...
View ArticleLooking inside the Web Intelligence Servers with Webi Admin Tool
It’s not supported, but that shouldn’t stop every BI4 Administrator from benefiting from the wonderful insight it can provide. Too often customers feel they don’t understand what the Web Intelligence...
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How to find and use the Island Resorts Marketing database and universe in BI 4.x
Hello everyone, I have seen posts and gotten support cases asking about where the Island Resorts Marketing sample database has gone in BI 4.0 and 4.1 and decided to write up this quick blog that shows...
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4.1 Web Intelligence Extensions Points coming to SAP TechEd && d-code Berlin
Hi, You might be interested to know that several SAP BusinessObjects development guys (Product owners, Domain Architects, Product Experts) are taking part in SAP TechEd && d-code in Berlin next...
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Merging Charts in WebI
Even though the title tells about merging the two charts, in reality this is not possible in Webi . The idea is to trick WebI by putting the chart on top of each other in such a way that they appear to...
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Creating a Webi doc off of an unmanaged Excel data source on a network share
In support, we get a lot of questions and feature requests.One request that has passed my desk a few times is the ability for a webi document to use an unmanaged Excel spreadsheet as a data source....
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First look at FHSQL reports in BI4.1
As many have heard, free-hand SQL is making its long awaited debut in BI4.1, in the form of SP05. As an engineer in the Webi Product Support team, I was pretty excited to have access to an early...
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BI 4.1 SP05 Web Intelligence GUI Customization Per Folder Feature
Hi everyone! Some of you may have seen my wiki on Web Intelligence GUI Customization that came out with BI 4.1. In BI 4.1 SP05 we have added onto this functionality by allowing you to do this...
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Web Intelligence Input Control New Feature in BI 4.1 SP05
Have you ever used multiple selection type Input Controls in your Web Intelligence report? Did you ever find it frustrating that WebI refreshes the data view before you were done selecting all of the...
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FHSQL in BI4.1.5 - Limitations, Gotchas, and Troubleshooting
In my previous blog post, I talked about my experience with converting free-hand SQL Deski reports in BI4.1 SP05. The resulting Webi reports worked flawlessly. That’s not to say I didn’t run into any...
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BI 4.1 SP05 Released. New Doc for Web Intelligence - a Getting Started Guide.
Charlotte from the Documentation team sent word a few weeks ago she's been working on a new doc piece for Web Intelligence - a Getting Started Guide. I think it's pretty nifty and extremely useful....
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How to set a page break in a Report
Hi Everyone,In my first blog post I´ll like to share a trick to set a page break into a report.Sometimes, in order to better format a Report, one needs to add a page break on it.Consider a requirement...
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BW Manual prompt entry functionality is introduced in Web Intelligence.
Hello Everyone, Today, when a webi report based off BEX Query is refreshed, the only way to enter the prompt is to select it from the List of values. This has changed as of last week with the release...
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Web Intelligence Data Sampling and HANA support added in BI 4.1 SP05
Ever try to design a report using a large dataset? Doing this can be a performance nightmare as you may not have applied the filters you wanted or the query to the database may take a long time to...
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Stacked chart with totals
Hi Team ,It's simple trick to display totals of stacked column like below On top at bottom (along with category axis) How to do !On TopI have Business area and fiscal period wise Revenue stocked column...
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Precision of Calculation Results in Web Intelligence
We often get questions regarding strange calculation results when using decimal numbers in Web Intelligence. Typically:Why don't I get 0 when I do A + B - C, although C is supposed to be equal to A +...
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How to enable multi value option in Web Intelligence for Selection option...
Hello Everyone, In my last blog, I mentioned about the supported input formats for selection option BW variable for the newly introduced feature of manually entering BW prompts. I tested the new...
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