Front-End Patch

Question

Dear Gurus, what's the best way to know what current front-end patch is being used here at the client's site. In Query Designer, if I click on About, ti just gives the version of SAP NetWeaver.

Answer 1

Are we talking about the BW Addon For SAPGUI FEP?
There are couple of way:
- BW 3.5 Addon for SAPGUI (6.40) FEP 13 is most current
- BW 3.5 Addon for SAPGUI 7.10    FEP 2 is most recent (For site running BEx 3.5 with a 7.0 BW.
- BI 7.0 Addon FEP - not using it just yet, not dure what the most current version is - it has some different numbering arrangement
1) If you are running 3.x and using the Bex Browser, the splash scrren on startup (think you also bring this screen up from one of the Menu options too) should have the BW FEP e.g. 3500.7. (plus some othe nbrs) is BW 3.5 Addon FEP 7
2) In the BEx Analyzer in 3.x (didn't see it in BI 7.0) one of the options somewhere under the Business Explorer Menu is an option called Installation Check.  This opens the sapbexc.xla, which should open a workbook that has a button (not sure what it's called, something like Run Check) - press the button and it collects teh version info of all the BEx front end components and tells you if they are curent, missing, old.
    In 3.5 for SAP Gui 7.10, you need to llok for something like sapbex350710c.xla.
There's one for 7.0, but not sure what it's called, try a search for *c.xla.
I think checking the logon pad provides teh SAPGUI FEP version info, no tteh BW Addon FEP.  A frequent area of confusion as SAP doesn't do a good job explaining these items.