Alternate colors for Analysis grid in workbook

Question

hi all,
I am wokring on Bex 7.0 , Can anyone guide me how to acheive the alternate colors in the  data area of Analysis grid in a workbook.This property is available in web items but i am not able to do to with the workbooks.And also pls I need an example how we can work with themes in workbooks ,also creating the new themes.
Thank you.
Regards
Mandha
Edited by: kranthi mandha on Jan 3, 2008 12:57 PM

Answer 1

Hi,
For Apply Formatting :
Deselect this checkbox to switch off the display of formatting, including icons and background color. Displaying formatting during navigation can be time consuming. You may therefore want to switch if off for performance reasons. An example is if you are navigating to achieve a result that you want to export to a text-based file.Scroll bars and scrolling icons are not affected by this setting.
SAP Notes:
Customizing Default Workbooks
You can format a workbook using all the Microsoft Excel functions. The following options are available, for example:
●      Add a background graphic to the worksheet
●      Add additional worksheets with design items or charts
●      Embed a VBA macro that allows you to easily access the BEx Analyzer object model to enhance your workbook with BEx-specific custom VBA code
●      Format cells outside of design items with text, borders, and colors
●      Add a logo to a particular cell (outside the range of a design item)
You can also format a workbook using the BEx Analyzer design functions:
●      Add or remove design items that you want to display by default
●      Change the locations of design items
●      Apply a BEx theme (see Workbook Settings)
Cells belonging to design items themselves use a standard formatting.  Using Microsoft Excel functions, you can manually format these cells in analysis mode. For example, you can select a row of results in the analysis grid and set the text to bold. However, when you refresh the query, the standard formatting for the query cells is restored and the settings for these cells are lost.
You can permanently format design item cells in two ways:
●        Using BEx themes, you can select different formatting themes, including formatting for design items. See Workbook Settings
●        With certain types of queries, you can work in formula mode, which gives you complete freedom to format the cells as required. See Working in Formula Mode.
For example, your current default workbook consists of a background graphic and the Navigation Pane and Analysis Grid design items. You work with different queries in which exceptions were defined. You want to be able to display exceptions easily when you open queries in the BEx Analyzer. You want to display a background graphic that contains an exception alert symbol. You proceed as follows:
●        Create a new blank workbook using Microsoft Excel function New.
●        In analysis mode in the BEx Analyzer, choose Format ® Sheet ® Background in the Microsoft Excel menu, and select a different background graphic.
●        Use the BEx Analyzer design toolbar to insert a List of Exceptions design item. If you were not already connected to a system, you are prompted to connect now.
●        Insert an Analysis Grid design item to display the query results.
●        Choose Save ® Save Workbook As in the analysis toolbar, and save the workbook to the server.
●        Close the workbook.
●        Choose Open ® Open Workbook and open the workbook from the server. This is a prerequisite to be able to define workbooks as default workbooks.
●        In the analysis toolbar, choose Global Settings, and in the Current Default Workbook section, choose Use Current. Your customized workbook is now the default workbook.
●        Choose Open ® Open Query and select a query.
Your query now opens in the workbook you have defined as the default.  The Exception design item is already embedded in your workbook and your custom background graphic is displayed
Themes
BEx themes, based on NetWeaver Portal styles, are shared services across the Business Explorer suite. In the BEx Analyzer, they are delivered as a set of Microsoft Excel style definitions for your workbook. Themes provide formatting information such as background color, font, and font size. To display the set of style definitions for a workbook, choose Format  ® Style from the Microsoft Excel menu.  The styles provided by the Business Explorer are prefixed with SAPBEX*.
Themes are content objects that are stored on the server and that you can choose to activate.  Themes are stylesheets in which you can make important changes to a theme. All workbooks in which the theme is used are updated accordingly. 
The following settings are available on the Themes tab page:
Current Theme
The list of available BEx themes is displayed. The BEx theme that is currently applied to your workbook, if any, is selected.
New/Delete/Apply/Save
If the following special authorization is assigned to your user name, you can change and save themes on the server: AUTHORITY-CHECK OBJECT 'S_RS_TOOLS' ID 'COMMAND'  FIELD 'THEMES'.
If you have this authorization, these buttons appear:
●      Create a new theme by choosing New.
●      Select a theme from the Current Theme list, and choose Delete to delete it. This deletes your theme locally.
●      Select a theme from the Current Theme list, and choose Apply to apply currently configured styles to it. When you do this, the BEx Analyzer reads the Microsoft Excel style definitions of all the styles in the workbook that are prefixed with SAPBEX* and stores them in the selected theme. This allows you to edit the styles in Microsoft Excel and then create a theme with these customized styles.
●      To save all the themes to the server, choose Save.
Reapply Theme Before Rendering
Since BEx themes are saved on the server, they can be changed on the back end. Select this indicator if you want to retrieve the most up-to-date definition of the style from the server and apply it again.
Apply New Styles
Select this indicator to update the current workbook with any style that has been added to the theme on the server since the theme was originally applied. If, for example, new styles have been added to a theme during a patch release, you can retrieve them from the server with this option.
Do Not Use a Theme
Select this indicator to stop using the selected theme in your workbook.
pls chk this link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/85/1321d0b7864766b5208a0b221a7608/frameset.htm
*pls assign points,if info is useful*
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CSM reddy