BI Excel Analyzer

Hi,
I created one BI report using excel template. I took the base template from samples Bugreport.xls.
tool is excel analyser.
I customized with my own xml source and mapped the fields.
The report is working fine when I am calling from apex by passing dynamic parameters but my only problem is it is giving an error of
"a list cannot overlap another list" and also taking the template headings as is which I tried to remove but no use.
Can any one please help me how can I auto refresh my report with the latest data as I created another sheet based on the base template but it is not auto refreshing when calling from apex. please advise. thanks very much in advance.
thanks.

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Error When Refresh Formatted Data inside Excel Analyzer

I have build a Excel template and load up this to the BI Publisher Server. When I call this template after the log in works fine. When I refresh the data normal it works also fine, but when I try to refresh formatted Data I get the error "Error: This report does not support HTML as an output format." I will not use html output inside Excel, I will use the original Excel template with refreshed data.

Hi Tim,
The Refresh Formatted Data works on MS Excel 2003.
May need to check if its really supported on MS Office 2002.
Btw another question, is it possible to create an excel template without using Excel Analyzer?
Also when I used the generated excel file of Excel Analyzer as template, when the report is generated the data sheet sometimes is not filled with correct data or sometimes there is no data at all, even if the parameters used is the same as the one used in generating the original excel file using Excel Analyzer. This happens most of the time for reports with Concatenated Queries or SQL Queries using "CURSOR" to group a set of data. Note that on initial generation of excel file using Excel Analyzer, correct set of data is displayed. It is only when it is used as template and viewed/exported in Excel format that data is not properly loaded.
Please advise.
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Excel Analyzer template problems with Excel 2003

There are numerous common problems when using Excel Analyzer templates with the Analyzer Add-In for Excel 2003:
The following problems have been found in the latest version of the stand-alone BI Publisher version 10.1.3.3.2:
1) If your report name is more than 24 characters long, the Excel Analyzer template will never open in Excel. The error is completely uninformative, too. The reason is that the Analyzer template tries to make a tab in the Excel file called <report_name>.xdo. Since tab names can only be about 26 characters long, Excel chokes when opening the file. It would have been nice if BI Publisher printed an error when encountering this situation.
2) If your report produces too many rows, Excel will time out when opening the Analyzer template. Again, the error in this case is completely uninformative. In fact it appears no different from the error in (1). Excel 2003 is supposed to have a row limit of 65,000, but we can't get the Excel Analyzer template to open with more than about 15,000 rows. This is a completely unacceptable limitation if you're going to be making pivot tables in Excel. This is a processing time-out problem, which cannot be remedied by changing any settings in BI Publisher.
3) If you use the data in your Excel Analyzer template to make a wide report, like maybe one column for each day in the year, because maybe you want to plot the data over a full year, then forget about opening this report successfully. Since the number of days in a year is more than 256, Excel will choke when trying to open the template. No informative error here either.
4) If you're going to make a Pivot Chart in Excel, in the Analyzer template, then your reports cannot produce more than 256 rows. I'm not talking columns, I'm talking ROWS people! No more than 256 rows. This is because Pivot Charts require creating a sideways pivot table, which means your rows end up as columns. This is the only way to plot data with time on the x-axis, which is where it should almost always be.

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When I try to install the Oracle BI Publisher Excel Analyzer I get the following error message: "Error installing internal.exe (0xa00)". I use the Oracle BI Publisher 10.1.3.2. and Excel 2003. To by sure I have installed DotNet 2.0. Does somebody have a idea?

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Hi all
I am on Excel 2007, OBIEE 10.1.3.4.0.
Finally got the Analyzer menu tab to appear in Excel. After logging in I I am able to see on-line reports (but not templates?). When I try to open any report I first get an error box which says
<<Translation file not found for locale:'en-GB'!>>
When I ok this i get an Excel message:
<<Object variable or With block variable not set>>
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Can anybody help with this please?
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Found the problem,
In the Install directory of Excell Analyzer there a number of translation files, and bizarely this file is missing.
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Merge Two Reports in Excel Analyzer - One To Many Relationship

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Hi,
Thanks for your answers.
I did explore using infosets but really struggled with joining the data and getting a sensible output. For example where a bill was done in installments I was getting 12 lines (e.g. one for each month) rather than just one. THis meant it looked liked they'd paid twleve times as much etc.
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Excel Analyzer cannot connect to server

All, I am having some problems connecting the Excel Analyzer to the server I'm retrieving information from. Here are the steps I do:
1. Connect to BI Publisher, open a Report.
2. Go to View and click on Excel Analyzer button.
3. Enable macros and wait for the report to open.
4. Go to Oracle BI Publisher Menu and click on Login.
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Dashboard in BEx 7.0 Excel Analyzer

I have to develop a dashboard with 7 queries embedded in a single worksheet. All queries have output in the form of tables (grid analysis). I know, how to do that. But, is following a possibility :
1. Keeping size of each table fixed, so I can have whole dashboard in a single view (size of my PC screen) and I do not need to scroll up-down/left right.
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Hi.
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2. The feature you're looking for is also in the property screen under the tab called "clipping".
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Hi Gurus,
I am trying to retrieve 20k+ records from the SQL database. It involves, per record, about 10 columns. However, when I press the "Analyzer for Excel" button, it somehow lead to an internal server error with the messsage as below.
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
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Any settings that I could change to retrieve the records?
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hi Raymond,
The excel sheet will accept 56,535(not sure about correct digit) rows in one sheet.I also faced the same problem when i open an excel sheet it displays unable to read and showing a blank sheet.
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Jumping from web report to Excel Analyzer and passing parameters?

Hi,
I have a web template/query which displays cost centres assigned to an individual user. From this I want to click on a link and jump to Analyzer passing the value of the cost centre to the Analyzer workbook as a parameter. The query in the workbook will then be restricted by the cost centre value.
Any ideas on how I would achieve this would be appreciated.
Wouldn't it be nice if STS allowed planning in Analyzer, I do not want to use the web for planning.
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Edited by: Richard Wong on Jan 28, 2009 12:34 PM

I don't think this works for 3 parameters, but I know it will work for 1. Maybe you can do something with it.
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Excel Analyzer

I want to create a macro within an existing xls template for BI Publisher. When I try to record a macro i'm prompterd for the ExelAnalyzer password but I have no idea which password to use. So I tried several, my own, administrator, pasword of de server administrator but with no luck whatsoever. Anybody have a clue?

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Cannot install nor uninstall Analyzer for Excel add-in

When I try to run the Analyzer installer executable, which was downloaded directly from our BI Publisher server version 10.1.3.2, the installer only asks if I wish to UNinstall the add-in. Since I have no other choice, I say yes, thinking I can start all over. It goes through it's cute little progress bars and states that it finished uninstalling. No matter how many times I run the installer, it always asks if I want to uninstall the currently installed add-in.
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Analyzer for Excel and Office 2007: Issue on Data Refresh and Parameters

Hi all,
for a customer BIP workshop I want to prepare a demo and experience a strange issue. Hope this is known and bugfix or workaround exists.
Created a very simple demo report with two columns and a numeric parameter. Called Excel Analyzer, the document opens correctly in Excel, data are filtered properly using the parameters initial value. I always have to log in to BI Publisher Server first, when a new instance of Excel is opened.
Then I choose 'Show parameters' from the BIP add-on menu. My parameter is shown with its correct inital value. But: After pressing 'Refresh Data' (regardless if parameter value has been changed or not), a VBA error message (Code 1004) occurs. Then the excel cursor remains hourglass and no BIP related function is available in this opened Excel instance anymore.
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Think, something goes wrong there with Excel 2007. Unfortunately I only can use this version.
Thanks in advance for hints. If I cannot fix this until Friday, customer will probably not be exalted by BIP :( .
Edited by: KaiMoeller on 10.08.2009 23:57 'typos'

fschulze,
I face the same issue in Excel 2003: Run-time error 91, Object variable or With block variable not set.
This happens everytime when I try to refresh the data after I open a saved excel template. But the refresh works fine when the report is initially downloaded using the Analyzer for Excel button
Have you found the workaround for this problem ?
Thanks.

Single Sign On and BeX Analyzer

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Hi Derick,
I want to make our discussion into 2 parts
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