The WebI Social Hour!
Hello everyone! The WebI Social Hour is a new initiative that the Web Intelligence team is piloting. Its intent is to gather customers together and allow engineers to answer general customer questions...
View ArticleBI 4.1: Disable Data Preview Panel
Hi,is it possible to disable the Data Preview Panel in Query Panel by default?
View ArticleHow to add a crosstab header
The problem As with crosstabs in XI3.1, so with cross tables in BO4 (note to SAP: why, oh why do you keep changing the names of things?). It is not possible to create a centered heading as part of a...
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How to jump to a different report dinamically
Hi, I´m writting this post as a extension of How to set a WEBI document to autorefresh each n secondsOne of the questions raised was if I knew how to dinamically jump from one report to another...
View ArticleWebi tricks to save hour(s) of work (in present & in future)
Hello everyone, Here are couple of Webi tricks that are so easy to implement and much easier to forget about, when developing a report and spend hours of work later fixing/redoing/testing them over and...
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Secret Custom Format (for Date) in Webi
Hello everyone, Did anyone notice the secret custom format (for Date) available/that works in Webi report? Apparently, we can easily format the Dates to show Quarters as Q1/Q2/Q3/Q4, I just discovered...
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WEBI - Current level (number) of hierarchy
Hello everyone, I've seen few people requesting for a formula that shows the level of hierarchy we're currently on while drilling (down/up) and/or depending on that number, they can do some other...
View ArticleHow to use Detail variables
Logical following:Model A there are dimnesions: Manufacturing plant, ProductS ID, Amount , but there is no Material classificationModel B there are dimnesions: ProductS ID, Material classification...
View ArticleInserting comments on a WEBI doc - Two extra approaches
Hi Everyone, I would like o share two extra approaches to make use of persistent comments into a WEBI doc. I´m saying two extra ways because this subject has already been discussed by WILLIAM MARCY...
View ArticleHow to calculate (1-30 days ,31-60,61-90.....)revunue in webi
Hi , I want to calculate measures between days ex(1-30 days,31-60days, 61-90days like...) in webi report for user given date. now i am using relative position to implementing above requirement but...
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Possible Pitfall when multiplying/dividing measures and how to avoid it
Hello everyone,I´m sorry if you all are aware of it, but I think it deserves some attention : This is my query over e-fashion What I´ll do here is calculating the unitary price for a product in a...
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Why I use alerters for Hyperlinks
I almost always use alerters for hyperlinks (XIr3.x) instead of entering a hyperlink directly into a cell. Here's my reasons:1. It's easy to turn them off.If I'm developing, I might not want the...
View ArticleIs There Room On Your Bookshelf for Web Intelligence, Fourth Edition?
Toy Story 4, the fourth installment of Disney's popular Toy Story franchise, won't hit theaters until June 15, 2018. But with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.2 currently in beta and on...
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Introducing the SAP Marketplace in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP06
SAP recently shipped SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1 (BI 4.1) Support Pack 6 (SP6). Support packs generally contain only bug fixes, but BI 4.1 SP6 probably represents the greatest...
View ArticleHow to display current timezone
PurposeExtract timezone from the result of built-in function CurrentTime().IssueHere below formula syntax doesn't work:Right(CurrentTime();10)Error returned is the following: "The expression or...
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Web Intelligence, Lumira and the SAP BI Convergence Strategy
Earlier this year, we were involved in an SAPinsider Q & A event with the title "Will Your Web Intelligence Journey Lead You into Lumira?" The session featured numerous SAP subject matter...
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Web Intelligence Demo on SCN Metadata
If you were fortunate enough to attend this years Mastering Business Analytics event (Melbourne, Australia), you may have seen the Web Intelligence demo either at our Icon Integration booth or during...
View ArticleHow to implement a Running Count Distinct
UPDATE - Attached is a .wid file , renamed to .txt so I coulkd attach it, with the proposed solution. Is's on BO 4.1 SP5. In order to work, rename it back to .wid Hi,There was a particularly tough...
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RelativeDate function enhancement, not yet
We recently upgraded our BusinessObjects environment from 4.1 SP02 Patch 2 to 4.1 SP06 Patch 2. One enhancement I was looking forward to is listed on Page 56 of...
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Custom Prompt at Universe Level (IDT or UDT)
Sometime we may get requirement from User to select Free text for column where we don't have 'LOV's available. Something like in attached screen shote.g: Running report for "Last Day" Or "Last Week" on...
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