Explorer on BW Only Possible?

I have been asked to investigate if Business Object Explorer is supported on BW 7.3 and 7.4 and or there is a work around for BI 4.0 SP7 and or BI 4.1 SP3? I have read the admin guide and it mentions that OLAP data sources are not supported.
When I recently spoke with a person from SAP, they said that they thought Explorer 4.0 was supported for BW.
I tried to clarify that we do not have BWA or Hana, just BW. I have read where it might be possible to use Explorer on a BW DSO with a universe, but this is not very useful to us, unless we were to create DSOs out of calculated results from cube.
Can anyone clarify this? Our CIO and CFO like the presentations they have seen on Explorer and do not understand why we cannot use it with SAP BW.
Lee Lewis

Lewis,
I have the same issues recently, and with company officials at the Sapphire conference, the SAP sales people are just lending to the confusion because they don't understand the technicals or support that is identified.
The platform compatiblity list for support, specifically states that OLAP universe are not supported. BW and HANA are supported but BW is only supported through HANA or BWA.
Now I am an Admin/Engineer, not a developer or data architect; have been for 15+ years dating back to when this was SI 6.5 (Seagate Info) and Crystal Reports 6.5. I have migrated and built systems through Crystal Enterprise to BusinessObjects XI and now BI 4.1.
I have tested on 4.1SP3; and yes, you can build a universe (unv or unx) on BW queries, but that is the definition of an OLAP universe, even though it is a relational connection.
I find that the BEX Queries the way most are written for BEX Reports are inadequate in design for exploration of the data. Heirarchies don't work, and all you will get is the L00 and L01 dimensions, NO DETAIL OBJECTS. from the universe.
Again OLAP Universes are not supported for Explorer. Test this by trying to convert a unv on BEX to a UNX through the IDT, and it will tell you it doesn't support conversion of OLAP Universes and to use BICs. You must rebuild it with SAP Jco connection to the query, but then why rebuild if the design was to go to BICs? The reason for that would be customized universes, that lay on top of an injected BEX statement. Some places do that; requires more maintenance during refreshing the unvierses, but in those necessary cases that BEX/MDX will not let you do what you need in the query, you are only left with the universe or analysis document (RPT, WID, etc) to manipulate the data the way that is required for the task at hand.
There is documentation out there of using excel data from BW to drive the InfoSpace, and Exploration View set that you schedule for refresh. This turns out to be a Rube Goldberg design approach to the issue, as you need to perform multiple steps for one InfoSpace/Exploration View.
1. Design and schedule the WebI or Crystal output to Excel.
2. Then use that excel for base of the Information Space
3. Then through CMC capture the actual location of the file in the FRS, used for InfoSpace,
4. Schedule the webi to export the results to that new location only over-writing itself.
5. Set the recurring schedule in both the infospace for indexing and the webI.
Voila! You have the most cumbersome design of getting supported BW data into Explorer without HANA, BWA, or Data Services pipiing into a datamart or other flattened RDBMS style source to get SAP to support it via their documentation.
The Biggest ERROR made by companies and Executive is thinking that SBOP is SAP. SAP Owns it, but BusinessObjects remains BusinessObjects. We provide Business Intelligence Solutions for everything the company can provide access to in the way of data, not just SAP, and not exclusively SAP. BusinessObjects was originally designed for Relational Databases, OLAP was added for Voyager/Pioneer (now Analysis for OLAP). The design driving force behind everything SAP is now HANA.
I have requests to look at InfiniteInsight, Predictive Analysis, Lumira, and other applications that are SAP and not SBOP, but like SBOP are acquired assests and not true SAP NW Applications. 90% of them will not work directly with BW like Crystal and WebI does for reports without going through another interface, layer, and/or appliance.
Calvin Shipman

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Hi,
I am a new to SAP.
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I searched and got solutions in SDN- Forum as well as SAP best practice buidling blocks and tried but still the same error is appearing.
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and entered the follwing data and save.
Var. A    To account    From per. 1    Year    To period   Year    From per. 2    Year    To period    Year
1000 +                               1                 2000        12         2011     12                   2000     16            2011
1000 A    zzzzzzzzzz       1                 2000        12         2011     12                   2000     16            2011
1000 D    zzzzzzzzzz       1                 2000        12         2011     12                   2000     16            2011
1000 K    zzzzzzzzzz       1                 2000        12         2011     12                   2000     16            2011
1000 M    zzzzzzzzzz       1                 2000        12         2011     12                   2000     16            2011
1000 S    zzzzzzzzzz       1                 2000        12         2011     12                   2000     16            2011
Please suggest how to clear this error message.
Regards
Kasi

Dear Kasi
its not a problem if you are working on IDES.
Enter T code SE16N.
Enter table name MARV. Press enter.
Enter your company code in the required field. Press enter.
Enter   &SAP_EDIT   in the place where you entered the T code. Press enter. Now it is in edit mode.
Execute (click on Clock icon). A new screen appears.
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Update forum.
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Edited by: Pawan KS on Feb 10, 2011 12:33 PM

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All
This is in the ongoing sequence where I am creating everything from the scratch(customers, material, prices etc).So far, I have been able to create and save the salesorder>deliver it>pick the items and then I was going to carry out the PGI and then this happened.
when I use the date i.e(Planned GI) 27-09-2006, I receive the following error
****************snip********************
Goods movement: Error log
Item   Material           Description                                   Delivery qty UoM Batch
000010 9                  T-AS1_MATERIAL__9                                      10 PC
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************End snip*********************
If I use a date as R/3 wants ,say 27.02.2002(Planned GI),I get:-
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any day after 27-09-2006, say 28-09-2006(Planned GI), I get :-
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one thing was clear here to me, I can only post in Feb/March 2002, while my delivery date is 27 Sept 2006 . So I am in a classic chicken-egg situation.
where and who is giving this "Posting only possible in periods 2002/03 and 2002/02 in company code 0001" message ? How can I override this thing from the past ?
I thought of playing it smart and change my system date to the year Feb. 2002 , but in the fear that a lot of other things will fall as a result of that, I did refrain from doing so.
Could someone make this PGI succesful for me
Thanks for any lessons.

Thanks Mr. Srinivas
MMPV was indeed the magic wand.
PGI was successful.
this is my overall document flow as of now :-
Standard Order 2                                27.09.06 Completed
. Outbound delivery 80000000                    27.09.06 Completed
.. WMS transfer order 1                         29.09.06 Completed
.. GD goods issue:delvy 4900000020              30.09.06 complete
.. Invoice 90000000                             30.09.06 Missing export data
As I understand, my invoicing is not yet complete , it's got a number and got saved, but how shall I get rid of that red line message "Missing export data"(foriegn trade data incomplete...was the message while saving the billing document).I would be darn happy if I could just get rid of the foreign data part completely(just want to complete the invoice).Would this be checking off a mandatory rqmt. somewhere in the master data?
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Posting only possible in periods 2011/11 and 2011/10 in company code 4000

Hi All Experts,
I have encountered with this error while doing MIGO.
Posting only possible in periods 2011/11 and 2011/10 in company code 4000
Message no. M7053
Diagnosis
The posting date entered is not within one of the permitted posting periods (current period/previous period).
This can be due to one of two reasons:
The correct current period has not been set in the system.
For the system, the first of the entered periods is the current period. At the beginning of a new period, your systems administrator must change the current period in the material master record, using the function "Shift periods". This has not yet been done.
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Procedure
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Would like to share MMRV settings :-
Current Period : 11 / 2011
Previous Period : 10 / 2011
Last period in prev year : 12 / 2010
We have India based client so fiscal year variant is Apr to March copied from V3.
Will be very much appreciable experts guidane !
Regards,
Sharvari Joshi.

Hi All Experts,
I raised the OSS, and here which I got the reply from SAP.
There is a possibility to run the report RMMMINIT to initialize posting
periods. Please bear in mind that the valuation data of the previous
period could get affected.
If you decide to proceed with the process, please review the
documentation of program RMMMINIT.
Please also review attached note 70545 regarding the initialization
process. Although this note is NOT valid for your release, it provides
good information on the use of initialization for correction purposes.
Additionally, please review attached note 369637 in this regard as well.
PLEASE FIRST PERFORM THIS IN A TEST/DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM PRIOR TO MOVING
TO PRODUCTION AS YOUR VALUATION DATA FROM PREVIOUS PERIOD WILL BE
AFFECTED. If you are satisfied with the results, then you can move it
to production. Please perform this at your own risk as this hotline
will not support any problems arising out of it.
Related the error message MM016 please follow the steps from note
487381:
To reserve the parameter use transaction SU01 for the user's name who
executes the RMMMINIT program. The parameter must be set as follows:
Parameter Value
MMPI_READ_NOTE YYYYMMDD (for the current date)
I am not able make out any meaning out of it. Can anyone please understand me this ?
Help will be appreciated !
Reagrds,
Sharvari Joshi.
P.S : Steps from my side which I performed , I changed the parameters for my ID in SU01 to current date 2011.11.16 (YYYYMMDD) and running MMPI still same error.

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When I try posting GR with mvmt type 101 wrt PO I am receiving the error “Posting with reference to pur. order only possible for integrated whse”
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In my case i have not maintained as decentralised one.
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Hello all,
I would appreciate some clarification on the following issue. We are getting a error message. It is a Goods movement error log message. This is how it appreas in the system:
MT.....Area.....Msg....Item.....Message text
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Message was edited by:
United 99
Message was edited by:
United 99

Hi United 99,
You are not opened in the month of 09 so you need to open now.but you have small problem .onece any material created or any transaction will be processed you cant open direct to 07 month to 09 month you have to open one by one month it means first open 08 and next open 09 in MMPV this is the process you have to do
Hope this will helps you
Prem

F-90 TAX (Posting is only possible with a zero balance;correct document )

WHEN I AM POSITNG THE DOCUMENT THROUGH F-90 I AM GETTING THE FOLLOWING ERROR
ERROR:Posting is only possible with a zero balance; correct document
    Message no. F5060
ACTUALY I HAVE SLECTED VENDOR 31 ASSET 70 WITH TAX CODE AFTER SIMULATING THE DOCUMENT
THE FOLLOWING ENTYR IS COMING BUT WITH GREEN ERROR AS I HAVE MENTIONED ABOVE
ENTRY VIEW AFTER SIMULATING IS AS FOLLOWS
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002 70       0020001031 000040010498 0000          75,000.00                 H1
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sumathi
Edited by: sumathi lakshmi on Jan 9, 2009 8:24 AM

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F5060
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Posting is only possible with a zero balance; correct document

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Hi,
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With Regards
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