Data Refresh

Hello Gurus
We have a query reg the data refresh....recently we have made the the Quality CRM and R/3 data refresh, i want to know wht all the things we need to be consider for post data refresh i mean in terms of middleware........
as per my knowledge we have changed the RFC, logical systems, site, subcreption, and i had performed the intial down load.....but the data is not following.....if any thing more need to be changed in (crm/r/3) let us know
if i look in to the t code:r3am1 the status is showing running,
can u help us how to over coem this...issue....
one more thing, is it necessary to perform the initial download of all the objects once again in the quality system after data refresh
Thanks in advance
Points willbe given .......
Best Regards
Sreeram Raghu
+91-9994948272

Hello
Thanks for ur support....i had checked in the R3am1 the block size is showing "0"
the down load object which .i used for testing is .DNL_CUST_PRICE, it is showing still running in status...
i am not sure we have executied the t code BDLS, but we have changed the logical system in both the systems i mean in ECC and crm..is it necessary to execute the BDLS and also we have have checked the tables in ECC (CRMPRLS) and CRM(CRMMLSGUID) both are having the same logical system.
Can u tel us more where we can check.....
Best Regards
Sreeram RAghu
+91-9994948272

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And in text just in case the image isn't viewable:
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REFERENCES
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174937(v=sql.110).aspx
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I have created a new Analysis Services Cube and stored in on that server using VS 2012 Data Tools.   I then use Office 2013 Excel and create a new Pivot Table and bring in that data into that workbook. I save that workbook to my desktop and
can click on the DATA tab and do a "Refresh All" and the data is refreshed with no problem.
I then Save that Workbook to SharePoint 2013 in my Business Center documents library. I then try to do a Data Refresh and get the following error: External Data Refresh Failed. We were unable to refresh one or more data connections in the workbook. The following
connections failed to refresh: servername ConnectionName.
Let me tell you a little bit about how I have my SharePoint 2013 setup.
In Application Management ==> Secure Store Service - I have a Target Application Id setup with an AD account name and password.
In Application Management ==> Excel Services Application Settings - I an using an Unattended Service Account that is pointing to the Target Application ID that I setup in Secure Store Service.
Now in SQL Server 2012. I have made the AD account name and password a SYSADMIN account (because nothing seemed to work) and mapped that login to my Database that I created my cube from.
I have went into the Properties of my Analysis Server on SQL Server 2012 and out that AD userid in the Security Page as a Server Administrator.
Now let me tell you the real kicker here.
I also have a Sharepoint 2010 farm that we have been testing for about a year. This is something we wanted to go into production with but now have decided we will deploy our new production site on 2013.
This has the same setup only I am using SQL Server 2008 R2 as my database for SharePoint 2010, and am using SQL Server 2008 R2 on another server and instance for Database Engines and Analysis Server.
I have already created a cube on the SQL 2008 r2 Analysis Server using BIDS.
I created a Excel Pivot Table based on that cube and save it to the SharePoint 2013 site.
I then put the SSS AD account name on the SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Security as Administrator.
I pull up that Excel Workbook and go into Data and do a Refresh All and it works.
I then bring up my copy of the Excel workbook I created for my SQL Server 2012 Cube (this does not work on SP 2013) and save it to my Business Center in SP 2010. This will do a DATA Refresh on that workbook.
Another thing that I have done, (we have Office Web Apps Server running on the SP 2013 side), is set SPWOPISuppressSetting -view -extension xlsx so that when I bring up the Excel spreadsheet in 2013 it has a url with the xlviewer instead of the WOPI
url.
OK. I have went through all of my setup.   I am must wondering if I missed something in my install for this. HELP.   There can't be that much difference in the installation between 2010 and 2013.
Thanks in Advance everyone.

After many hours of research and totally burning down my SQL Server 2012 server because of the many changes I made to it, I finally found the issue that caused this and specifically why SP would not work with SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services. This
time I reinstalled SQL Server 2012 from scratch again but only put SP1 on at this time. I can't be completely sure this fixed the issue since I have not put any of the other CU on the box. But, after the reinstall, everything seemed to work
perfectly from the Excel Services side.
The issue I then ran into was that I could not get my PerformancePoint Services to work with my Cubes that were created on SQL Server 2012. I received Error Message " The DataSource Provider for data sources of type 'ADOMD.NET' is not registered" on
my SharePoint 2013 Server Event Viewer.
I finally found this post on the issue:
http://yossidahan.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/cant-get-ssas-databases-to-appear-in-performance-point-dashboard-designer-check-you-adomd-net-version/
Seems that SP 2013 is built to use SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services, so you need to install the ADOMD.net from SQL Server 2008 in order for it to work.   But make sure you install Version 10 since if you install any other it doesn't seem to
work.
I feel like I wasted a whole month tracking these issues down, and I haven't been able to test PowerView, PowerPivot or SSRS yet. I hope there is not any more.

Data Refresh and slicers in Sharepoint

I am wondering if someone can explain the difference between refreshing data in sharepoint and utilizing the slicers. I am a little confused about how and where the data is actually stored, is it in the powerpivot model or in the database? If I design
a powerpivot model in excel using a query that points to a SQL server database, is this data actually stored in the excel workbook? If i publish a workbook to sharepoint, is it an actual workbook containing data or more of a data model? Where is the data being
stored and is the automatic refresh necessary if I am using a slicer? The thought being that if powerpivot is only acting as a data model, clicking the slicer would trigger a refresh by re-querying the sql server database especially if the model has been released
from the cache in SSAS where the analysis is happening. I have been working with powerpiot and doing research, however, there seems to be conflicting information about what powerpivot actually does and how it works. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Josh

Hi Josh,
If we create a PowerPivot data model and load data into it, the data is highly compressed and resides within the .xlsx file itself. If you have published your workbook to a PowerPivot Gallery or Sharepoint site that supports PowerPivot, we should update
the data from the source whenever you choose. For detail information, please see:
Different Ways to Update Data in PowerPivot:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg399134.aspx
PowerPivot Data Refresh:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210679.aspx
Slicers are one-click filtering controls that narrow down the data shown in PivotTables and PivotCharts, it can be used interactively to display data changes when you apply filters. For more information, please see:
Filter Data Using Slicers:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg399096.aspx
Using Slicers with PowerPivot PivotTables:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dn151366.aspx
Regards,
Elvis Long
TechNet Community Support

Data refresh problem - QaaWS and Tomcat cache

Hi Experts,
I have a problem with data refreshing in Xcelsius 2008 dashboard when I use QaaWS.
System is: BO XI 3.1 on the Win2008 server.
When data are changing in the database InfoView documents show it immediately, but into the Xcelsius dashboards new data not coming.
In the dashboards I use auto refresh, and Refresh button too... It doesn't help.
New data are appearing just after restarting of Tomcat.
Maybe Tomcat is caching data...?
Do somebody have similar issue? Could you suggest me something to do?
Thx,
János

Hi Janos,
Tomcat has cache which the default time is 60 seconds.
You can change the cache time when you create QaaWS wsdl.
If you do NOT want the cache, you can
1. locate to: ${BOE Install Path}\Business Objects\Tomcat55\webapps\dswsbobje\WEB-INF\classes
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3. Find the property qaaws.cache_dpresult.optim= and set it to false.
4. Re-start tomcat.
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