BW Query Designer - Replacement Path Issue - Need Number of Days

The requirement is to have "Number of Days" (Key figure) by using the formula SY-DATUM MINUS General Availability Date.
GA(General Availability (Date is Calculated Using a hidden Formula Variable with the Processing type u201CReplacement Pathu201D
to convert the Free Characteristic 0WBS_ELEMT__CWBSUSR09 into the Date Format.
The Sy-datum brought using another hidden Formula Variable with the Processing type u201CCustomer Exitu201D, after checking whether the Project Close date is in Future (after GA Date).
There is SAP Note 1005772 available, it will be of Little Help.
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Replacement path issue

Hello,
Can anybody please help me with a replacement path issue which I have been struggling with for days, and I am completely lost
now and close to despair!
Here's what I am trying to do. I have a simple query with one key figure (let it be Presence) and three items in structure in rows: 0EMPLOYEE, 0PROFIT_CTR and variance. The idea is to show the result both for the person (0EMPLOYEE), and compare it with their overall profit centre result, and calculate variance.
For example:
John Doe: 50% (presence)
Profit centre which John belongs to: 40% (presence)
variance: 10%
The only variable I want to input is John's name, and the query is supposed to find his current (time dependant) profit centre (0EMPLOYEE_0PROFIT_CTR) and use it to calculate the profit centre result. Is there any way that I can achieve this?
Once the query is done, I want to set it up on the Broadcaster to run for all the people in the firm.
Please please help me,
Cheers,
Agata

Aglukas,
You need two queries to achieve this
Query 1 u2013 ( this gets Profit center of that employee to feed into Query 2)
Column Presence(key figure)
Row u2013 profit center
Employee u2013 Employee variable that is user entry
Query 2 u2013
Column u2013 Presence
Row Structure u2013 Selection 1- Title- Employee u2013Restriction should be employee with user entry variable
Selecton 2 u2013 Title For entire profit center u2013 Restriction should be Profit center u2013 Variable should be-Replacment path Variable- fetching Profit center from Query 1
Selection 3 u2013 Selection 1-Selection 2 this could be a cell defination.
Hope this helps
Regards

How to get Date Difference in Query with Replacement Path !

I need to get nr of days between two days. I knew that we can do this by replacement path in the queries. But when Iam trying to use replacement path with
this two chars and put it in a formula the result is not showing correctly.
Eg: I have dates Date1, Date 2 and I created two variables calles DateA ,Date B with reference to Date1 and Date2.
Now Iam creating a formula sayint that (Date2 <> 0) * (Date1 - Date2) ...Here Date2 has sometimes balnk value...Iam getting the values when there is dates for both chars...But if there is one value is blank
then Iam getting a strange value ....
can any body send me step by step on how to fix this...
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Hi Sam,
another important think you have to remember when having aggregated information is to divide the date1 and date2 key figures with the number of lines used in aggregation.
Remember that date1 (internally) is a numerical value from some initial date which is used as reference. E.g., if the reference date is 01/01/0001 and you have the date 15/01/0001 then key fig. date1 internally stores just the value 14. So if you have something like:
                         date1       date2        diff
customer1 material1       14          18           4 <- correct
customer2 material1       14          18           4 <- correct
and then you make an aggregation by removing customer from your report then you will have the following situation:
                         date1       date2        diff
material1                  28          36           8    <- wrong
So, you would have to divide by 2 in the second case. Please try to check the above and proceed accordingly. Let us now if something else weird appears.
Best regards,
Theodoros

Query Variable - Replacement Path

Hi all,
I would need to fill a query variable (based on calendar week characteristic) with specific list of values. I need all calendar weeks that are present in infocube, but only if key-figure > 0. So I've created a query with cal. weeks in rows and with suppressed zero rows. Output values from query contains exactly what I need.
Than I created a variable (replacement path) with reference to mentioned query. But it seems to me that the variable does not contain all values displayed in the query, but only filtered values (if I use some restriction of cal. week).
Is it possible to achieve this using replacement path at all?
If not I would appreciate any idea or experiences how to accomplish this requirement.
Many thanks,
regards,
Pavel

Hi Pavel, I didn't get your requirement 100% . Still, I would like to tell How Replacement path works.
First of all for the Source query you have given condition to restict the output of the query on particular keyfigure value > 0 ...... Right.
Now on second query, you have created the Characteristic variable with Replacement path....here some important things to look at.
while creating the variable, select Processing Type as REPLACEMENT PATH, then in the "Replacement path" Tab, give Replaced variable with.. "Query" ...and at bottom, For QUERY give the query name.
If u want RRI facility from Source Query to Target Query, then u give RRI Connection in T-Code : RSBBS....
...and now when u execute the Second Query, First the first Query will be executed and those filtered values > 0 will be passed to the Second Query's variable input...then the second query will be executed...
But, in your case check once again all settings in Variable in Second Query..and Conditions block in First Query..
It should definitely work...
---Intros.
Edited by: Intros on Apr 25, 2008 1:31 PM

Formula variable / Replacement path issue

Hi Experts,
I have a Field which has different status description.
I want to bring the count of only one preferred description.
Model Status
A1     New
A2     Open
A3     New
B1     Closed
B2      Pending
B3     New
I want to view only the closed count of models
Model Count of Closed
A1     0
A2     0
A3     0
B1     1
B2      0
B3     0
I tried doing this using the formula variable and Replacement path with Status Field.
But I'm unsuccessful in selection the desired status.
Please help me to over come this.
Thanks

Hi Dear Prasad,
I can't restrict the characterstic to Closed. If I do so the output will be only for Closed.
But here I want to bring every model with value as 0 and 1 for model with closed status.
Hi Dear Raju,
The requirement what I have here is more complex. like, the result will be for 6 month displaying every single cal/day.
and also I have to find out percentage of closed for every cal/day based on number of model we got.
i have only asked a small portion of it, with this input i will manage to build the percentage etc....
I cannot bring counter inside. My report is already too wide to be displayed.
I have tried similar kind of thing, using CKF, Formula Variable and Replacement path with the Char - InfoObj.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/009819ab-c96e-2910-bbb2-c85f7bdec04a&overridelayout=true
But I'm not very sure how do I get only count of the my desired status.
Please help.
Thanks

Nav Attribute Calculation in Query with replacement path variable

Gurus,
Can we use attribute of a charecteristic in calculation based on the sap how to below.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/72f4a790-0201-0010-5b89-a42a32223ffc&overridelayout=true
Basically above document uses attribute which is KF key figure ,but i want to use a attribute which is if type - NUMC.
So the question is can i directly use the same steps mentioned in the link or need to modify because the type is NUMC.
Thanks in advance

Hi Andrew,
You can not use the attribute with NUMC in calculation. In order to do the calculatio based on attribute you have to create the attribute as Key Figure type. I mean to say as described in the document.
NUMC is data type Char string with numbers and you can not do calculation based on Char string.
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Kams

How to feed a query using a variable defined as Replacement Path-Query

Scenario description : BI NetW 2004S - InfoCube with the following characteristics Customer, OrderDate, OrderYear and the following KeyFigure Number of Pieces.
Objective: I need a query "QB" that shows how many pieces a set of customers has ordered in the year 2008. The set of customers is defined as all customers that in the previous years (the user can select one or more years) have ordered more than 500 pieces within the same year.
Implementation: In general terms the idea is to build a query "QB" with the characteristic "Customer" that is restricted (filtered) using a variable that is fed by another query "QA" (Replacement Path-Query).
In order to have the selection of customers that for each of previous years (2007, 2006, 2005,...) have ordered more than 500 pieces, in the query "QA":
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- I put Customer and OrderYear in row
- I put the KeyFigure Number of Pieces in column
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Now if I run the query "QA" it works correctly showing me all customers that in the selected years have ordered more than 500 pieces within of the same year.
If I run the query "QB" it shows a correct result only if I enter only one year (for example 2006) in the OrderYear field (coming from the query "QA"); if I enter more than one year (for example 2006 and 2007) the selection of customers showed is not the same defined by the first query "QB": I was expecting to see all customers defined from the first query less all customers that have no ordered any piece in 2008.
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1) Why is query "QA" working on a different selection of customers when the user selects more than one year?
2) Cosidering the scenario and the objective described above do you have any other idea?
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Roberto

Hi Christophe,
it's ok for me if I consider the customer only once in the final selection of customers that feeds the final query, this is my objective.
However as test I've created 2 "input" queries, one related to 2006 and one related to 2007, and then in my destination query I've tried to restrict the customer using 2 variables of type replacement path-query (one attached to the 2006 query and one attached to the 2007 query). Unfortunately when I try to check and save the destination query, Query Designer tells me it is not possible to restrict the characteristic in this way.
Could you please describe me steps you run in to order to restrict a characteristic using more than one variable of type replacement path-query?
Thank you in advance for your answer.
Ciao,
Roberto

Passing Blanks instead of ' # ' in Replacement Path query.

Hi Experts,
I have a main query which gets its cost center values from another query with replacement path variable.
The variable should return BLANK to the main query inorder to display all costcenters. But blank is interpreted as '#' and the main query returns No application data found as it treats blank as '# /Not Assigned' instead.
How to achieve this.
Please suggest if anyone has done this before. This is we a Web report Not Excel.
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Thanks Arun, I understood the logic now for blanks.
But,
1) How to pass 'ALL' for the filter values.As the sub query returns no application data found instead of all cost centers. This is because in the data in ODS is
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A
B        11234
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D
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Sarah

Replacement path does not work for a specific query after migration 7.0

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After the migration, it seems this replacement path doesn't work. This replacement path is defined inside a structure that is used in some other queries and for the other queries is working properly.
Another think we have done is to make a copy of the query where the replacement path doesn't work and the copied query works ok.
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This is just for those who might have simmilar requirement & would in case refer to this thread..
Me too faced same problem of OLE DB for OLAP cant be released. I was using replacement path query variable which was using result set from the other query.
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Passing Selection Variables via Replacement Path

I need a query(main) with list of Debits and Credits. I am pulling list of credits(side) from a seperate query for a specific selection and a condition in main query via replacement path, both on same ODS infoprovider. But in the side query, I cant put any selections or restrictions as they are dependent on main query result.
The side query itself when running is taking more than 5 mins due to large number of records on ODS.
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Infoarea missing in query designer

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We are using BI 7 analysis authourization, we had a request for one user to add one ods access, we have granted access to the user to ODS via RSA1. But issue is we are not able to see the infoarea and ods in query designer.
Is we need any authourization to use the ods in BEX analyser or any other things need to be followed
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Hi billywinter,
According to your description, parameters are wiping out automatically when you change something in query designer.
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Regarding the issue, we couldn’t understand it clearly, and we would like to confirm something from you below:
1. Does parameters disappear in your query? Or when you preview the report, the selected box of parameters doesn’t display?
2. How about the query in query designer when parameters disappear?
3. What’s the modification have you performed for where clause? And what’s the result after this modification?
4. What the query type you are using, MDX query, stored procedure or another query type?
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In addition, we have found a feedback which descripts an issue about overwriting parameter in MDX query designer, and this issue is resolved by design. Is this issue same as yours? Please refer to this feedback:
MDX Query Designer Overwrites Parameter Queries.
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Hi,
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Hi,
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Hi all,
<u>Is it possible to use different Query Designer versions (3.5 and 7.0) parallelly on the same machine ?</u>
I have customer A using BW 3.5 and new customer B who will use 7.0.
I need to install Query Designer 7.0 and create reports for customer B.
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[Employee].[Employee Full Name].[Employee Full Name].ALLMEMBERS*
[Employee].[Employee Discipline].[Employee Discipline].ALLMEMBERS*
[Employee].[Employee Department].[Employee Department].ALLMEMBERS*
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Hi ansonee,
Because the query execute successfully in the query designer, so the issue can be caused by the parameter in the report.
If you have a string such as "@string" somewhere in a query, and it is not mapped correctly in the reporting services parameter section, it will send that string directly to the provider with no substitution of parameter values. This will cause
an error like the above. Please check carefully. Here has a thread that is similar to yours, please see:
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