Book Publication Error

This is in reference to an SAP BPC error that we're getting in the Excel portion of the client. Specific version is SAP BPC Microsoft version 7.5 SP6. In trying to complete the Book Publication the following error pops up:
"ActiveX Component can't create Object." Any help in this area is greatly appreciated.

Hi Mike,
if the issue is still present please read the SAP note 1185283.
Best regards
Roberto Vidotti

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I have several reports that have Macrou2019s that perform formatting using the After_Expand function. The reports work fine except when publishing the reports with the Book Publication Wizard. It seems the After_Expand function does not run until after the book has been built. I am using BPC 7.0.113
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Thanks!
Chas.

Sorin,
Thanks for the follow up here is some more detail
Can you precise what is not working and when?
When a Report has a macro in it using after expand it runs fine, except when using a book publication, in which case the macro does not run.
Do you have problem during the book publications?
There are no error messages of any kind. The macro just does not run whwn using book publication
The macro is not working into published excel?The macro runs fine, except when generating the report with book publication.
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I've a problem with the tool "Book publication Wizard" within ePublish tab. I create a PDF of reports that the user consult and update once a month.
During last update the system has produced this error : "ERROR OPENING PDF DUCUMENT", and now i can't publish any report.
I tried to delete the updates or create new book but i've the same problem.
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Patrick, thanks for your help. Our tech person looked that issue number up and the error message that came back was:
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Is there any substitute for book publication?

We are currently running BPC Microsoft version and considering migrating to the Netweaver platform. I understand the Book Publication Wizard is not available in Netweaver. We use this feature to generate lengthy reports and losing it would make reporting a very difficult process. Does anyone know of a workaround or substitute for Book Publication?

Hi Barb,
You are correct it won't generate PDF's.
Are you considering going to BPC 7.5 NW? If so there are some workarounds that could be leveraged but they are not ideal.
For example if you have Crystal Reports as well, you can use the integration to pull your BPC data into a formatted Crystal Report and use the PDF scheduling to generate your "books" in that way.
Otherwise as Jeff mentioned you would have to leverage the Distributor and Collector and print to pdf via some type of task scheduler job but this would require you have either Adobe Professional or some PDF generator like PDF XChange.
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Hello,
I currently have a book publication that references a workbook that contains 3 tabs (sheet 1, sheet 2, and sheet 3).
I only want to print sheet 2 on quarter end months (which are Apr, Jul, Oct, and Jan for us), on other months I would like to exclude these from the pdf.
I am hoping to avoid manually deleting the page after the pdf is created. I am also hoping to avoid maintaining to versions of the report and book publication.
I have tried using VBA code to hide the tab, this works well when printing directly from excel. However, it appears that the VBA code is not run during the book publication process.
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Luke - One way to do this is to make a copy of the report you're using (Save As...) and in the copy, hide all the sheets you don't want to display (hide them manually doing..Format..Sheets...Hide - not with macros ) Set up the BookPub file to reference the copy with the sheets hidden. That's the only way I have been able to print only specific sheets.
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PS. The site has been published successfully before.
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iMac user.... here's a post I gave the other day. These tricks usually work for me when publishing errors crop up.
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Bandwidth - I publish late at night, and get less error messages than if I publish during the day, or on a friday night or saturday. I'm guessing that this is when most of the people using .Mac publish. Also, I don't surf the net or listen to any streaming content when I'm publishing. I try and leave all of the available bandwidth for iWeb. Also, by publishing at night the rest of the house is asleep and I don't have to argue with them to save the bandwidth.
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Corrupted files in the site... if you're getting the same error message over and over about one particular file.. like an mp3 file or a jpg file, then replace it or remove it. If you get the message once, and the next error message is a different file, then leave the individual files alone.
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harddisk/users/username/library/application support/iweb/DOMAIN
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I have created a report for the publication through Manage Book and that report is also validated. Now I am printing the same with epublish -> Book Publication Wizard. When I am printing the same at that time, That report is getting printed in 3 pages and 3 times. In that 3 pages only two page contain the information and remaining 3rd page is blank.
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