Free Characteristicas

Hi,
In my BEx Explorer report output I have few free charateristics
Like (Currently )
<b>
Application
Bcalendar Date
CMarket
DProduct Name
</b>
My report output I need Free Characters should be (I want)
DProduct Name
Application
CMarket
Bcalendar Date
The Free Characteristis are sorting by Text but i don't want by text
Thanks in advance

Roy,
You can change the order of the free chars in the query to what you want. But it is a manual process.
Hope this helps...

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I got an problem in the report with the multiprovider ZCOPA_M01
If I open the report for this multiprovider and there are 2 default characteristics displayed in the query and after removing the drill down for those two characteristics and Now IF I go to Free characteristics and do an drill down on one of the characteristic (for example: Geographical Type)and place an filter on the Geographical Region (Geographical region is also an free characteristic) now I find no values in the set filter screen.
But when I again remove the drill down on Geographical type and do an drill down on geographical region and set an filter on geographical region then you can see all the values...(In filter screen)
Can any one please advice me for the same. How to get values in the filter screen for this report with the Multiprovider ZCOPA_M01
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Hi,
Go to the definition of a Master Data Object. In its Attributes tab, there is a column of navigation on/off. There you can either swith on or off the attribute as a navigational attribute. After converting into navigational attribute, you can see the type column is changes to "NAV" from "DIS".
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Yogesh.
Edited by: Yogesh Kulkarni on May 27, 2008 4:14 PM

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I have a couple reports that per busniess have many free characteristics. So many that that they do not fit on one page and you must continue scrolling the page down to view all. This makes the report look sloppy but the business owner wants all of these free characteristics. I'm looking for a way to clean up the list of free characteristics without removing any selections. Can they be grouped up or consolidated through Query Designer or WAD?
Thank You,
Alex

Hi Alex,
Actually use of free characteristic will not slow down the report performance rather free characteristics are used to enable the user for dynamic drilldown and to improve the query performance for initial output display.
What you can suggest your users is to keep only required free characteristics and then remove the rest of the characteristics and from grouping perspective all the free characteristics in query designer output are shown alphabetically so you can not manipulate the group in designer.
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How to select more than one free characteristics in web report?

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From the performance point of view, I want to select more than one free characteristics to be displayed in WEB report.
I know in BEx Analyzer, we can do this by right mouse click and choose' query property' from the context menu, all the free characteristics are displayed in the popup window. But in WEB report these free char don't displayed in the 'query property' popup window.
Could anyone tell me how to implement this in WEB report?
Eileen

Hi,
each free characteristics in the list has two functions beside it, 'drilldown in rows' and 'drilldown in columns', but this functions as select only one free characteristics, each time you select one, the report will be loaded again.
if I want to select like 10 free characteristics, the report will be refreshed and reloaded 10 times.
my question is that how can I select these 10 free characteristics once to improve the performance.
your help will be appreciated. Thanks.
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Filtering free characteristics issue

Hi Sdns,
i am unable to fileter the free characteristics in Bex query analyser.But i can do the same in Bex query designer.
Bex anlayser goes back to the normal excel sheet with out displaying any error messages while i am tring to filter the free characteristic.
Advance Thanks to replies.
karun

Hi,
You are trying to filter in query output or workbook. If workbook refresh the workbook once after it is opened and go for filter.
You can filter by right clicking any of the free characteristic and choosing select filter value.
or Do you have problem in setting filter in query designer.
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Akhan

Change the order of Free Characteristics in Context Menu

Hi Experts,
I execute a query on the Web Browser and right click on a cell (to see the Context Menu). I choose 'Change DrillDown' -> 'DrillDown By' and get a list of Free Characteristics.
However, the order in which the free characteristics appear in the Context Menu does not match the order of the Free Characteristics shown in the Navigation Pane (on the left side of the report).
This does not happen in BEx Analyzer (Excel), but only in the Web Browser.
I would like to know how to change the order of these characteristics in the context Menu.
Your solutions on this issue would be appreciated.
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Shruti

Hi Shruti,
I am also using BEx Web analyser and I can see the same order as in the left pane when I select the Drilldown by
I think you might have used the Free Characteristics and when you want to exchange them/drag them back you may be having issue
Us drag and drop for the navigation. Generally,dropping one element over another exchanges them & Dropping out an element removes it from that place
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I am working on a crystal report against BW query, I am using SAP menu to build the report. I see that free characteristics not coming into the crystal report.
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you are most likely using the old driver. make sure in the Settings in the SAP Toolbar you activate the option to use the MDX Driver.
ingo

Problem with the display sequence of free characteristics in Bex Analyzer

Hello,
I want to display free characteristics in particular sequence in Bex Analyzer.
I have arranged free characteristics in particular sequence in bex designer but while executing the report from analyzer
free characteristics are not getting displayed in the sequence in which i wanted to display it in query output.
Could you please let me know what setting needs to be done in order to display free characteristics in required sequence in bex analyzer.
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Sanjay

Hi Sanjay:
Please observe that the sequence of Characteristics in BEx Analyzer is Alphabetic (in ascending order), I faced a similar situation once and I solved it by adding a prefix to the Characteristic Name at the query level, for example.
Customer
Distribution Channel
Division
Month
Sales Organization
Year
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A02. Month
B01. Sales Organization
B02. Distribution Channel
B03. Division
C01. Customer
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Francisco Milán.

Can we add display characters to Free characteristics

hi Gurus,
I have a some material display attribute in the report and customer wants to add these display characters to free characteristics so that he wants to drill down with other charcters like plant. Can we add directly in query defination or do we need to convert to navigational attribute and then add as a free characteristics.
Regards,
Preety

Its not possible, even if you make navigational the parent char dta will only be coming.
If you are sure that the other char data will have same value for those attr,then go ahead and create nav.
If not you need to include those attr in the cube.
Hope its clear
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Shana
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Order of free characteristics in standard webtemplate

Hi Gurus,
i created a query with query designer. In Excel anything is fine. Also the order of the free characteristics in the navigation panel on the left side is as defined in query. But if i start the query in web i got a problem. In web the order of the free characteristics in the navigation pane is alphabetically and not as defined in the query designer. Any ideas?
Regards,
Adem

Hey,
I guess it's problematic. Since you wanna still have the standard web template general, you cant fix the sequence you like by changing it.
I don't think it's possible.
The only way is to create a new web template in which u have the correct sequence and than running the web template instead of the query.
Tomer.

Cant see the free characteristics in the work book?

Hi all,
I have added the free characteristics in the workbook, but cant see those free characteristics in the workbook!!
How to see the free characteristics in the workbook!!
Thanks

hi pooja,
just open your query in Bex Analyzer,
there u will find three buttons above the data table display.
then when u will click on Filter tab, u will get all the free characteristics and variables used in your query.
then u can go to workbook, switch to design mode and make them visible,
may be at the time of creation of workbook, it(filter) would have been removed and saved as workbook.
hope this will help u
thanks

Error when using some objects in the free characteristics

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I have a query based on an infoset made of an ODS and an object.WHen i tried using sales office,in the free characteristics,the query was running fine.When i pulled sold_to into the free characteristics and executed the report i was getting an error asking to contact the System Adminstrator.We are on BI 7.I executed the same in RSRT and it was working fine.I thought it was problem with authorizations,but not.Because i pulled 0Material which is not authorization relevant and with this also,i had the same problem.Any thoughts?.Thank you.
Ravi.

Karthik ,
Yes I am seeing an additional paranthesis in Webi SQL query.
For example plz consider the product table below,
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Product.ID,
Product.Name
FROM Product
WHERE
Product.Name IN ( @Prompt('4) Name:','C','Product\Name-M',multi,free) )
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Product.ID,
Product.Name
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Poor Runtime (Client) with many free characteristics

Hi all,
We are running BW 3.5 with BEx Analyzer (Office 2003).
Most of our queries have quite a lot of free characteristics (up to 50). However, the initial view of all queries is rather small (usually less than 30 cells in result area).
For some reason the client runtime of these queries is extremely poor (avg > 10 seconds) and makes up to 85% of the average total query runtime.
The only exception is a static query w/o any free characteristics (avg client time < 3 sec.).
Has anyone experienced the same? Is there a connection between the client runtime and the number of free characteristics (regardless of the number of cells in the result area)?
Does anyone know how to improve client runtime in our situation?
Any help is appreciated!
Regards,
Christian

Christian,
It seems that the problem might be caused by the recalculation functionality in Excel. Do you have any other excel workbooks open at the same time?
There is an OSS note on this problem
In addition you can add the following code in the workbook in a self defined refresh button.
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    Application.Calculation = CalculationStatus
End Sub
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I hope this helps.
Jesper Christensen

What is Free Characteristics,Filter Area and 1ROWCOUNT keyfigure?

What is Free Characteristics,Filter Area and 1ROWCOUNT keyfigure?

What is Free Characteristics,Filter Area and 1ROWCOUNT keyfigure?
Hi M.V,
Free chars are those chars that you can use to drill down your query as per your requirement at run time, i.e. once you have executed the query you can make your filter or drill down options more flexible by using the free chars.
Filter Area : Filter area is that area where you can specify the Variable's required for input, you can also restrict some charcteristic values directly as well.
For e.g -> for ur query requirement is to take date as input from user, so u will create a variable based on the calday info-object and place it in filter area.
Directly restricting characte.
Restricting country to 'India', now u will get the data onnly where the country is india.
Any restriction that u specify in filter area will globally effect your query. i.e. u will see only that data ouput which meets the specified restrictions
1ROWCOUNT : you get field 1rowcount when u create any DSO. By default system adds this field that contains value 1 for each row.
Thanks
dipika

Drill Down and Free characteristics.

Hi Gurus,
If i want to Drill down according say OCALDAY,OCALMONTH,
Do i have to add those fields in the Free characteristics Right?.
Or is there any other we can add the fields to the Drill Down.
Thanks in Advance.

Hi,
Yes to drill down on any characteristics you will have to add them to free characteristics.You should add calmonth and calday into the free characteristics.
Thanks
Ajeet

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