Excel macro to launch Bex analyzer

Hi,
first of all congratulation to the forum. really interesting and useful.
I am trying to write a macro that launches Bex analyzer from an excel template.
I have been trying with:
Dim RetVal
RetVal = Shell("C:\Program Files\....\BW\sapbex.xla", 1)
with no success so far.
has anybody got any suggestions?
thanks in advance and best regards
david

Hello,
R u working as Security consultant or BI developer.
If you are a BI developer you dont have access to Auth objects S_RFC.
If you are security consultant you have access and to look where for S_RFC.
I dont know how your roles organaized.But try this way.
1. gO TO TRANSACTION SUIM
2. select ROLES.
3. Under roles select Roles by Complex Selection Criteria.
4. Under this go to 4 th box Selection by profiles and Authorization Objects
5. enter S_RFC in Authorization Object.
and execute.Then you get all the roles in which S_RFC is there.
Then see the roles of the user for whoom RRMX does not work.
and match the role to the selection criteria and make the changes to S_RFC in the role.
generate role and save.
If you are not security consultant u dont have access to any of these.
Consult u r basis or security team and tell them to check the values of S_RFC.
Getback if u have any questions.
Abhiram

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Message was edited by: Thomas Kassumeh
Message was edited by: Thomas Kassumeh

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