Big Universe + Security Profiles = Slow Query Generation
The actual origin of the concept of a “red herring” is unknown, but that doesn’t stop it from causing grief while trying to diagnose a performance issue. If you are not familiar with the concept, a ...
View Article5 Easy Steps in Designing a Dynamic Y-Axis Web Intelligence Report
“Create a sales report by state, by city, by store, by year, by quarter, by month…” and the list goes on. This is a very common report requirement from a business. The usual procedure for designing ...
View ArticleDisplaying UserResponse() Values On Separate Rows
Article illustrates how to display prompt values on separate rows in a Web Intelligence Report.
View ArticleConcept of Calculation context in SAP BO webi reports
Very good article discussing Calculation Contexts in a Web Intelligence report
View ArticleWebI Conditional Formatting
Conditional Formatting, or Alerters, is a way to highlight data in a WebI report based on its values, for example putting low numbers in red and high numbers in green. Rob goes over how to do this ...
View ArticleIs SAP Out of Sync with its BusinessObjects Customers?
This is a question I asked at the Town Hall session at the recent SAP Analytics and BusinessObjects Conference held in Ft. Worth, Texas. I qualified the question by stating that everything that SAP ...
View ArticleRemoving the Confusion from Calculation Contexts
If you’ve read enough of my blog posts, you’re probably aware that I’ve been using BusinessObjects for a long time, and, during the early years, I was pretty clueless. One of the topics that had me ...
View ArticleImpressions of Web Intelligence 4.0
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 has been Generally Available since September, 2011, and has generated a significant amount of buzz in the BusinessObjects community. I have no plans to ...
View ArticleMigration from Deski to Web Intelligence
As you probably know by now, with the release of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 (BI4), Desktop Intelligence (Deski) is officially retired. Of course, we’ve known that this day would ...
View ArticleWeb Intelligence Performance Tips
The recommendations in this document are intended to help improve the general performance of BusinessObjects Web Intelligence documents. To that end, we’ll begin with an overview of Web Intelligence ...
View ArticleCreating a “What if?” document with prompts
n business, planning often requires us to look at alternate potential scenarios regarding the future. We can use prompts and variables to create documents that allow us to evaluate various ...
View ArticleSuppress rows with zero value
Sometimes, when running a query, we will get measures with a value of zero (0), and we may not want those rows displayed. This is a little trick to hide those rows with zero values. For this demo, I ...
View ArticleUsing Webi ForEach function to solve complex aggregation problems
When you create variables in web intelligence, they must be assigned a qualification. This qualification assigns a “strong” type of either a measure, or a dimension (or a detail) kind of object to ...
View ArticleUsing Webi 4.1 SDK to get Report SQL
When SAP introduced BusinessObjects 4.0, clients who were invested in the Webi REBEAN SDK got worried. The Webi SDK had been mostly deprecated and it was not clear what is going to be the direction ...
View ArticleHow to add animation in SAP Dashboard (Xcelsius) on Mobile
One of SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius) most attractive features is animation. The way components animate in the desktop version of compiled dashboard and the ability to animate various visualizations and ...
View ArticleNulls are evil (or at the very least mischievous)
If you have been involved in hands on database development for a while, or in any kind of BI / reporting initiative, you probably already know this. Nulls are evil (or at the very least ...
View ArticleCombining Breaks, Sections, and Charts in your Business Objects Web...
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence(WebI) provides many tools to enhance the presentation of your reports. Due to the myriad of options available, you may find it somewhat confusing to determine ...
View ArticleCreating an SAP BI Web Service Connection in the Web Intelligence Rich Client
In this article we will review creating an SAP BI Web Services connection in the Web Intelligence Rich Client, using the Web Service Publisher tool. SAP Dashboard users regularly import data using ...
View ArticleBO Rules. SAP Analytics Drool.
My youngest daughter owns a T-shirt, a gift from her aunt, that is emblazoned with the phrase “Girls Rule. Boys Drool”. As I prepare to attend this year’s SAP Sapphire and ASUG Annual Conference, I ...
View ArticleOfficial Product Tutorials - SAP
SAP has produced a number of tutorials that can be accessed for free on the SAP website. These videos are a very good resource for specific functionality in a number of BI4x products. The ...
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