Business Objects With ERP

Actually I need your advice for a requirement I have a customer that donu2019t want to implement BW at all but he is very interested in SAP Business Objects BI Tools This customer has a huge amount of data and the manager insisting not using BW or BWA So my only choice is to use only form BOBJ BI package: Xcelsius and Crystal Reports But I am also wanted to provide WebI and explorer but I know this impossible
I had read in SDN Articles that I can use Federator to connect to the ERP directly and so I can create a universe and so I can deliver Webi Document and Explorer
So I need your advice and your recommendations for this

Hi
currently you have the following options:
1. You can use SAP rapid marts. They contain Data integrator mappings (you need an installation of the DI for this) to extract and load your SAP R/3 data into a relational database. Additionally they provide universes (based on a relational schema) hich ill allo you to build WebI reports.
2. You can use the R/3 connector for the Data Federator (You need a DF installation for this). Please note that the R/3 connector is not yet a product rather just a PROTOTYPE. Take a look here: SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Reporting for SAP ERP [original link is broken]
3. You can try to access the underlying database directly using the appropriate DB drivers. Please note that this is NOT RECOMMENDED. This way you cannot leverage security defined on the R/3 side in your WebI reports and you will not be able to access all data as available in R/3 since some of them are stored encoded/compressed in the underlying tables.
4. Instead of WebI you can use Crystal Reports and the R/3 drivers (eg. SAP Tables, Functions, Cluster) provided when installing the integration kit for SAP.
Regards,
Stratos

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Need to use business objects with a project, please guide on basics.

Hello
I am a dotnet developer (asp.net with C#). I am sorry I dont know much about Business objects. Our client a financial firm wants to use Business object with a web based application. I couldn't got a clear and good understanding of Business object. The client just said Business objects allows dynamically creating reports even clients can create reports very easily even without knowing SQL.
Kindly guide me about Business Object product and its what component I should check for using it. Please mention some links that can give me introduction.
Thanks a lot,
haansi

Hi
Business Objects is not just one tool. You should ask your client what they will use e.g. Crystal Reports or Web Intelligence.
Here you can see half an hour Webinars that give you a good understanding of Business Objects:
Webinars
Regards
Roland

Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems Textbook

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Dear Dr. Word,
I am a graduate student of MIS at Northern Illinois University. I took Dr. Yipeng Liu’s course of Advanced Topic of Information Systems using your textbook - Integrated Business Process With ERP Systems. Your textbook is great. I have a question to discuss with you.
On page 62 of your textbook, I don’t think the accounting process of purchasing supplies is correct. In the example, “GBI purchases office supplies for $500 with a check. Office supplies are expensed; that is, they are defined as money spent rather than treated as an asset upon purchase, even if some of the supplies remain unused. In this case, the relevant accounts are bank and supplies expense.”
Actually, supplies unused are assets of companies. Otherwise we don’t need an account called supplies at all. In the given example, I think we should credit $500 to bank account and debit $500 to supplies account. If at the end of the fiscal year, we used only $300 supplies, then we credit $300 to supplies account and debit $300 to supplies expense account. This is the typical process of supplies accounting.
“Office supplies are expensed; that is, they are defined as money spent rather than treated as an asset upon purchase, even if some of the supplies remain unused. “ This practice actually goes against the Matching Principle of General Acceptable Accounting Principles (GAAP). It’s not a good example especially in textbook, even though lots of companies are doing real business like this.
I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts of my comments on supplies accounting of your textbook.
Best regards,
Tingkai (Tank)

Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems Textbook Discussion

Please ask questions to the author team about the content and exercises in the Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems Textbook

Dear Dr. Word,
I am a graduate student of MIS at Northern Illinois University. I took Dr. Yipeng Liu’s course of Advanced Topic of Information Systems using your textbook - Integrated Business Process With ERP Systems. Your textbook is great. I have a question to discuss with you.
On page 62 of your textbook, I don’t think the accounting process of purchasing supplies is correct. In the example, “GBI purchases office supplies for $500 with a check. Office supplies are expensed; that is, they are defined as money spent rather than treated as an asset upon purchase, even if some of the supplies remain unused. In this case, the relevant accounts are bank and supplies expense.”
Actually, supplies unused are assets of companies. Otherwise we don’t need an account called supplies at all. In the given example, I think we should credit $500 to bank account and debit $500 to supplies account. If at the end of the fiscal year, we used only $300 supplies, then we credit $300 to supplies account and debit $300 to supplies expense account. This is the typical process of supplies accounting.
“Office supplies are expensed; that is, they are defined as money spent rather than treated as an asset upon purchase, even if some of the supplies remain unused. “ This practice actually goes against the Matching Principle of General Acceptable Accounting Principles (GAAP). It’s not a good example especially in textbook, even though lots of companies are doing real business like this.
I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts of my comments on supplies accounting of your textbook.
Best regards,
Tingkai (Tank)

Error during create business object with XACML schema

Hi
I can't create a policyset business object with access_control-xacml-2.0-policy-schema-cd-04.xsd schema file in Jdeveloper 11.1.1.3 with bpm11g extension.
it raise bellow error message.
you can find the schema file from bellow link.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/10577/XACML-2.0-CD-ALL.zip
after download the zip file ,you only need the access_control-xacml-2.0-policy-schema-cd-04.xsd file,
start Jdeveloper in debug mode(run jdev in console), import xsd file to bpm project, and create the business object, then
you will got bellow error message.
Does any one know how to solve it?
Thanks.
----------------error message from jdeveloper debug console-------------------------
Exception occurred during event dispatching:
oracle.bpm.project.catalog.type.TypeLoadRuntimeException: BPM-71530: Unexpected error when loading resource '/xsd/access
_control-xacml-2.0-policy-schema-cd-04.xsd'. Cause: The specified resource could not be loaded. Action: Check logs for
more detail
at oracle.bpm.project.catalog.loaders.AbstractTypeLoader.buildTypes(AbstractTypeLoader.java:153)
at oracle.bpm.project.catalog.bundles.ProjectCatalogComponentBundle.buildType(ProjectCatalogComponentBundle.java
:565)
at oracle.bpm.project.catalog.bundles.ProjectCatalogComponentBundle.buildTypeTree(ProjectCatalogComponentBundle.
java:547)
at oracle.bpm.project.catalog.bundles.ProjectCatalogComponentBundle.loadTypeNames(ProjectCatalogComponentBundle.
java:128)
at oracle.bpm.type.TypeCache.reloadFromBundle(TypeCache.java:619)
at oracle.bpm.type.TypeCache.reload(TypeCache.java:116)
at oracle.bpm.type.TypeCache.sync(TypeCache.java:152)
at oracle.bpm.type.DefaultComponentCatalog.sync(DefaultComponentCatalog.java:524)
at oracle.bpm.fusion.soa.soabrowser.SOASchemaBrowserDialogImpl.showDialog(SOASchemaBrowserDialogImpl.java:72)
at oracle.bpm.designer.ObjectContainerDialog.browseSOASchema(ObjectContainerDialog.java:401)
at oracle.bpm.designer.ObjectContainerDialog.access$300(ObjectContainerDialog.java:67)
at oracle.bpm.designer.ObjectContainerDialog$7.actionPerformed(ObjectContainerDialog.java:572)
at oracle.bpm.ui.peer.swing.event.SwingActionListener.actionPerformed(SwingActionListener.java:30)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1995)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2318)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:272)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:272)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6267)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3267)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6032)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2041)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4630)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2099)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4577)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4238)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4168)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2085)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2478)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:178)
at java.awt.Dialog$1.run(Dialog.java:1046)
at java.awt.Dialog$3.run(Dialog.java:1098)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.awt.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:1096)
at java.awt.Component.show(Component.java:1563)
at java.awt.Component.setVisible(Component.java:1515)
at java.awt.Window.setVisible(Window.java:842)
at java.awt.Dialog.setVisible(Dialog.java:986)
at oracle.bpm.ui.peer.swing.SwingComponent.setVisible(SwingComponent.java:395)
at oracle.bpm.ui.UiComponent.setVisible(UiComponent.java:838)
at oracle.bpm.ui.OkCancelDialog.setVisible(OkCancelDialog.java:176)
at oracle.bpm.designer.action.NewBpmObjectAction.newFuegoObject(NewBpmObjectAction.java:127)
at oracle.bpm.designer.action.NewBpmObjectAction.doIt(NewBpmObjectAction.java:67)
at oracle.bpm.designer.DesignerAction.run(DesignerAction.java:71)
at oracle.bpm.ui.action.BaseAction.runWithSelection(BaseAction.java:297)
at oracle.bpm.ui.action.BaseAction.runWithSelection(BaseAction.java:290)
at oracle.bpm.fusion.ui.action.IdeMenuAdapter$1.handleEvent(IdeMenuAdapter.java:135)
at oracle.ide.controller.IdeAction.performAction(IdeAction.java:529)
at oracle.ide.controller.IdeAction.actionPerformedImpl(IdeAction.java:884)
at oracle.ide.controller.IdeAction.actionPerformed(IdeAction.java:501)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1995)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2318)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:357)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(BasicMenuItemUI.java:809)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:850)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6267)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3267)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6032)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2041)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4630)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2099)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4577)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4238)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4168)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2085)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2478)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at oracle.bpm.project.catalog.parser.xsd.ElementRootDef.buildType(ElementRootDef.java:88)
at oracle.bpm.project.catalog.parser.xsd.SchemaElement.buildSubElements(SchemaElement.java:233)
at oracle.bpm.project.catalog.parser.xsd.Schema.buildType(Schema.java:74)
at oracle.bpm.project.catalog.loaders.impl.XsdTypeLoader.buildTypes(XsdTypeLoader.java:89)
at oracle.bpm.project.catalog.loaders.impl.XsdTypeLoader.loadTypes(XsdTypeLoader.java:77)
at oracle.bpm.project.catalog.loaders.AbstractTypeLoader.buildTypes(AbstractTypeLoader.java:141)
... 83 more

Dear,
I think you have created GL as cost element.
Now you have to assign it in OKB9 - Display View "Account assignment" : Overview
In OKB9 specify weather this cost element give impact to cost center or profitability segment.
You have a cost account defined in accounts determination (OBYC). But every cost account must have a cost object associated (internal order, cost center, and so on).
You must decide what is the cost object to 'receive' the cost value on the account.
Go to OKB9, insert the account (can be plant dependant) and the cost object, then repeat GR.
Regards,
R.Brahmankar

Modifying OBN Business Objects from ERP Common Parts

Hi All
I've created an application in which I need to trigger OBN navigation to the SAPGUI transaction for creating Materials (MM01). We have the "ERP Common Parts 1.41" business package installed on our Portal and I was hoping to use the standard OBN business object for Material however, strangely, there is no operation for "Create".
Question: Is it a good idea to add my own "Create" operation to the standard ERP Common Parts business object? I'm worried that every time we patch or upgrade the Portal, my custom operation will be wiped out...
Thanks!
Glen

Thanks The-Hung!
That was my opinion too, so I'm glad to have a someone back it up.
I still have a problem with the Material business object though. How would you suggest I should handle the problem with the missing "create" operation? Should I create a second business object (eg. "material2"?) and use the second object for material creation only - ie. only add a "create" operation? I don't want to have to rebuild the whole object in case we implement standard functionality that triggers the standard business object "material"...
The reason I'm asking these questions is that I'm an ABAP developer and it just seems unusual (and very restrictive) that I can't just enhance standard functionality without worrying that it will be deleted in an upgrade... I guess I'm hoping there are some tricks in the Java stack world that I don't know about yet.
Cheers
Glen

Best Strategy for Integrating Crystal/Business Objects with OpenACS Environment

Post Author: devashanti
CA Forum: Deployment
I'm working for a client that uses AOL server and OpenACS for their web services/applications. I need suggestions on the best strategy to integrate a reporting solution using Business Objects XI. Ideally I'd like to send an API call from our web application's GUI to the Crystal API with report parameter values to pass into specific reports called via the API - I can get it down to one integer value being passed - or if this is not possible a way to seamlessly, from the end user perspective, move into a reporting module. We are using an Oracle backend database. I'm experienced with creating stored procedures and packages for reporting purposes.
Although I have many years of experience integrating the Crystal active X controls into n-tier client server applications, the past few years I have had little opportunity to work with Business Objects and the newer versions of Crystal or web based solutions with Crystal Reports. I signed up to try out crystalreports.com, but I doubt my client will find this solution acceptable for security reasons as the reports are for an online invoicing system we are developing. However we can set up a reports server in-house if necessary, so it gives me some testing ground.
Can anyone provide suggestions for a doable strategy?

Please post this query to the Business Objects Enterprise Administration forum:
BI Platform
That forum is monitored by qualified technicians and you will get a faster response there. Also, all BOE queries remain in one place and thus can be easily searched in one place.
Thank you for your understanding,
Ludek

How to LInk Business Object with Portal

HI,
My exact requirement is that i want to trigger a event of BUS10001006 business object through Portal. In Portal i have an iview with a parameter and a Delete button. I enter the Material number and then press the delete button. On Trigger of delete button a BO event shoud trigger which in turn will trigger the Workflow.
The Workflow part is done but we are not sure how to link the BO/event of BO with Portal so that it triggers workflow.
Regards
Naveen Gupta

BOBJ integration into portal is in NO WAY similar to ESS business package deployment. For that matter, it is not a business package at all.
BOBJ itself is a web based application that interfaces with BW to retrieve different types of reports. So for the integration with SAP Portal you would not need to deploy any content (Except a few par files) on the portal.
Basically, for BOBJ integration you would have two options:
1. Integration using the iview template or URL iviews
2. KM Based integration
This topic has been discussed many a times and there is lot of information out there on SDN.
You can start with the following link:
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/IntegrationofBOEXI3.1intotheSAPEnterprisePortal+7.x
Please revert if you have any specific questions.
Thanks,
Shanti

Where get the Version trials Business Object with all your components?

How get the version trial the Business Object Enterprise XI 3.1 or the ultimate version, I need with all components for example: Business View manage, Desinger, Central cofiguration manager, Desktop Web Intelligence, Universe Builder, etc.

You need to login to SAP Service Market Place (SMP) and visit the download section i.e https://service.sap.com/swdc
Once there you need to navigate to Installations and Upgrades > SAP BusinessObjects portfolio > SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform (SBOP Enterprise) > BOBJ ENTERPRISE XI 3.1 > Installation > Choose OS platform > SBOP ENTER SERVER XI 3.1 SP3 WINDOWS > Download all three parts.
Similarly, you can obtain temp license key from https://service.sap.com/licensekey
Thanks

Business Objects XI R2 SP2 with Tomcat and Security Manager enabled

XI R2 SP2 Unix server:
I need to start the tomcat that is embedded in Business Objects with Security Manager enabled. Is there a writeup on how to do that? This changes the port that tomcat runs on, so do I just change all references to the port that it is currently running? Is it that simple?
Thanks for any advice!

It sounds like an issue that would need to be troubleshot by an engineer. Can you open a message with support?
Cluster members for client tools are defined in the windows registry. Does infoview work?
Regards,
Tim

Business Objects sessions bleeding together with OpenDoc reports

I have a custom application that logs a user into Business Objects, and calls OpenDoc using the generated loginToken. I store the Business Objects session in the application session. If you log into the application as one user and open a report with the following query:
 
SELECT
mtf.id
FROM
mtf,
facilities,
users
WHERE
facilities.id = mtf.id
AND facilities.id = users.facility_id
AND users.login_name = @Variable('BOUSER')
 
The query runs correctly and returns the correct result. If you log out of the application without closing the browser window, log in as a different user and run the same report you get the result the first user got, as if the @Variable('BOUSER') was returning the first username.
 
Each user is logged into Business Objects with their own username, I have verified this in the code. I aslo verified that When the first user logs out of the application the Business Objects session is destroyed, and a new one created for the second user. Looking at the HTTP headers I have seen that when the first user logs in and opens a report the following cookie gets set:
 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie:
InfoViewses=3%261%2C8P%264E%3D1704Jk1XlRb8I5GtMTG1%2C8P%26Tn%3D%7B3%26.1%3D%7B3%262%3D1608%2C03%26O%3DFavoritesFolder%2C0P%7D%2C2z%26.2%3D%7B3%262%3
D1609%2C03%26O%3DPersonalCategory%2C0P%7D%2C2z%26.3%3D%7B3%262%3D1610%2C03%26O%3DInbox%2C0P%7D%2C2z%26U%3D3%2C03%7D%2C%3Fz%264F%3D1607%2C8P%26S5%2C8
8%26Tm%3D3650%2C83%265U%3D1705JEngK4tWp4tT87D21704Jk1XlRb8I5GtMTG1%2C8P%2635%3Dtestuser1%2C8P%2663%3Dtoken%2C8P%26pa%2C8P%262r%3Ddev-bo.company.com%
3A6400%2C8P%263k%3D%40dev-bo.company.com%2C8P; Path=/; HttpOnly
 
The second user who logs in already has this set with the same value, including the testuser1 string which is the username of the first user. This is the only place I can see the username getting passed around.
 
This is how I log users in to Business Objects and get the logon Token:
 
IEnterpriseSession session = CrystalEnterprise.getSessionMgr().logon(username, defaultPassword, cmsHostName + ":" + cmsPort, authType);
String logonToken = session.getLogonTokenMgr().getDefaultToken();
 
This is how I launch the reports:
 
String url = serverUrl + "/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?sIDType=CUID&sType=wid&sRefesh=Y&iDocID=" + reportCuid + "&token=" + logonToken;
 
This problem does not occur with logging in and out of infoview. I am using Business Objects XI 3.1 SP2
 
Thanks for your help
 
Tim
Edited by: twkatadin on Dec 18, 2009 3:17 AM

When you log into InfoView, it creates a string representing the serialization of the Enterprise Session, and passes it to the client web browser as a cookie.
When you log out of InfoView, then it deletes the cookie.
The cookie is used for session persistence, such that the Enterprise Session will carry over to the different web apps that comprise the InfoView portal.
The difference with invoking OpenDocument is that there's no mechanism for logging off the session within OpenDocument, and OpenDocument uses the same cookie (since OpenDocument is invoked from InfoView, it needs to know the Enterprise Session under with the requester is logged onto InfoView).
So one possible workaround is to not pass the DefaultToken - it's used for failover - but rather the WCA token (createWCAToken).
The WCA token is valid only for the lifetime duration of the EnterpriseSession that generated it. Since you're keeping around the Enterprise Session yourself, and you do log it off, the serialized session in the cookie should be invalidated on the subsequent call.
Sincerely,
Ted Ueda

SAP Cloud SDK : Creation of Form using Business Object Error

Hi Experts,
I have created custom business object with object based screen and i want to create form for this custom business object.
I have tried using this.
Step 1. Right Click on Business Object and select Create Form option.
Step 2. Enter the require information and click on Next
Step 3. Select the element from the business object you need to display in the form
Step 4. Select the default language English and Next and Finish it,
After finish it the form open in adobe reader automatically but i am getting error as shown below.
and In the solution explorer i can see this.
Can anyone help me why it display the error while open the newly created form.
What are the software i need to install or add-ons in my system to open the from or remove this error.
I have installed the Adobe Life Cycle Designer For SAP Business ByDesign 135.0XXX, Adobe Reader X(10.1.3) , SAP Business ByDesgin Add-In Adobe Life Cycle designer.
Kindly any software missing or any add-ons require to be install or upgrade?
Many Thanks,
Mithun

Hello Alessandro,
I have solved the multiple line display in the table.
I have issue to display the no of character in the table.
I have Create custom business object and create the form i am using the TectCollection type in table level in businessobject node.
Case 1. This is my Entry1 in the business object and it display as shown below.
Here in the table "Undefined Text" is my 1000+ character text.
When i click on preview button the data display under the PDF as shown below.
Here the above screen we can see that the data comes perfectly in the PDF without missing data in table level.(Please i have not rename the columns name).
Case 2. When i Create new entry 2 and enter the multiple lines into the table as shown below.
Here in the above screen we can see that i have multiple row under the table.
When i click on preview button the PDF display with all the line under the table but the data is missing under the third column as shown below.
Here above screen display the same result but the in the yellow highlighted part full data not display as previous case 1.
Why the full data display in Case 1 and not in Case 2?
Is there any configuration to display data ?
Also i can not change the property of the page in form to "Allow Page Break with Content" this option is disable.
Kindly suggest me what is wrong in this PDF design.
Regards,
Mithun

Replacing Business Objects - Modelling Issue

I'm working on a large 'BI' project that is replacing Business Objects with OBIEE ( actually its not really a BI project its more of a give us what we've got now using OBIEE project ) - which is proving challenging in some areas.
One example is with the Data Model that BO provides in its Universe, the model I'm replacing is pretty much 3NF (even though it uses DIM and FACT in the table names) they're joined pretty much all over the place, which enables the users to select from tables which can be 4,5,6 steps away from the original - including via M:M relationships!
Anyway one specific issue is based around the old question of multiple fact tables where not all dimensions are conformed.
Dim - Business Manager ---< Fact - Forecast >----- Dim - Product -----< Fact - Actuals >------ Dim Salesman
I've setup the Dimensions for each Dimension Logical Table.
I've created a single logical table containing a Forecast and Actual Amount from the 2 fact tables and set the logical levels appropriately at Table Level. For the Forecast measure I have a logical level set to 'Total - Salesman' and for the Actuals measure I have logical level set to 'Total - Business Manager'.
This works great when I select an Attribute from Business Manager, and Salesman and both of the measures in the Answer.
However the users want to be able to select from Business Manager, and Salesman dimensions without selecting the measures, is this possible - do I need to add a bridging table to resolve the relationships between a Business Manager and Salesman explicitly rather than implicitly via the facts?
I have set Implict Fact at the Presentation Model, however this doesn't work (it misses off Total Level aggregation in the OBI Server SQL).
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/answers.

Thanks for the helpful reply Turribeach, along with the interesting and informative link.
This is my first foray into the world of BO and I think some of the points you make in the link are right on the money. I've spent many years working with Oracle Tools (Dataquery,Data Browser, Discoverer and then OBIEE when Oracle acquired the tool ). There are difficulties in the modeling with OBIEE, certainly when it comes to trying to replicate a 'fairly' complex BO universe they become apparent.
Many hoops to jump through to give the user a like for like, which I'm not convinced will be possible - maybe some negotiation is required :-)

EWA for Business Objects (XI 3.1) within SAP Solution Manager

Hello!
We use Business Objects (XI 3.1) and would like to get weekly a EWA report within our SAP Solution Manager.
Our SAP Solution Manger has only ABAP stack and it has the SPS version 25.
We also do not use Wily Introscope/Diagnostics and E2E tools within SAP Solution Manager.
Question
Is it possible to set up EWA for Business Objects with our requirements (SOLMAN with ABAP stack and without E2E/Diagnostics tools)?

Hello,
The short answer is no. You can verify this in SAP Note 1507629 - Preparing a BOE system for Service Sessions in Sol. Manager.
"...1.) Managed System Setup
Perform the Managed System Setup for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise as
described in the "End-to-End Root Cause Analysis System Landscape Setup
Guide". This guide can be found in the SAP Service Market Place:
-> http://service.sap.com/diagnostics
-> Navigate to the "Media Library"
-> Open the document "SAP Solution Manager Landscape Setup Guide"
Please ensure that you perform all steps mentioned in the guide which
are relevant for your product and version. Please read also SAP note
1357901, which is also referred to in the above mentioned setup guide."
So this is a requirement. There are also pdf documetns attached to this note that describe how to setup the EWA in Solution Manager. EGI_SBOP_EWA_part1.pdf and EGI_SBOP_EWA_part2.pdf.
The fact you have no Java stack and have not installed Diagnostics, just means it has not been done. It can be done and then you can do a managed system setup, and the balance of tasks required to prepare the system and Solution manager to generate EWA reports for the BOE system. Its just more work, not a show stopper.
Regards,
Paul

Business Objects in portal

Hi all,
I am working on a concept where i need to have some business objects form certain back end sysytems.
Going more in depth i ma trying to object based navigation where i need certain buiness objects to be interacted .
Please help me in this regard.
I want a business object with some operations which accept some paarmeters and based on that they return some o/p.
Thansk & Regards,
Lokesh.

Lokesh,
From reading your post, I'm not quite certain to understand fully what you want, esp. your subject includes "portal". However, in regards to your statement:
I want a business object with some operations which accept some paarmeters and based on that they return some o/p
It is reasonable to use WebI with prompts, and based on the answer to the prompts certain blocks or display of data can occur in your report (the function is called UserResponse). Perhaps you can investigate this function more fully to explore fulfilling the requirements that you have.
Thanks,
John

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