Information Broadcasting purpose in BW 3.5

Hi SAP Gurus,
1.I would like to know to which & all the report output can be sent to using BEx Broadcaster.
2.Please let me know how to set the report output format to bar chart / bar graph as default after execution of a query.

Hi,
1. you can send Query, webtemplate and workbook through information broadcaster 3.5
In BI7.0 information broadcaster you can send query, webtemplate, queryview, workbook and report(created by report designer).
2. you can send all the object as standard HTML, Multiple HTML, xls, online link and pdf...it has some restriction accroding to object.
if it helps please assign point
Regards,
Senthil
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Information Broadcasting license

Dear,
Just found on SDN (http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/7c2a7c65-0901-0010-5e8c-be0ad9c05a31?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true#q-13)
What scenarios need to be licensed via the Open Hub license?
Simply speaking, the Open Hub license is an alternative to the user-specific license. If you extract data from your SAP NetWeaver BI to a non-SAP system, you have to license this scenario - no matter which tool use for the extraction, e.g. Open Hub Destination, listcube, any BI API, Analysis Process Designer or Excel download. Note that a licensed BI user may download to Excel for her/his own analysis purposes without any further license costs. Distributing Excel workbooks to non-SAP BI users for personal reporting purposes requires Information Broadcasting license, not Open Hub license.
The last sentence makes us a bit nervous, as it might mean that a user having access to BW, can not forward by mail his finding to a colleague...
So does any one has the detail about the list price of the "Information Broadcasting license" (we know that this is very depending on the relationship with SAP - so we are only looking at the list price)...
Thanks

Hi,
To my mind, the sentence "Distributing Excel workbooks to non-SAP BI users for personal reporting purposes requires Information Broadcasting license" refers to using BEx Broadcaster, which is distributing periodically precalculated reports to end users by email, for instance.
As far as I know, it is not related to the circumstance in which a BW user finds something and wants to share it with a colleague.
Regards,
Maximiliano

Setting Up Basic Information Broadcasting

Hi All,
I need to config for Basic Information Broadcasting, means I do not want to use portal only simple broadcasting on mail. I tried a little bit to config settings under 'BEx Web' and 'Settings for Information Broadcasting' in SPRO but I am confused what should be proper parameters to be maintained in those settings.
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Hi Gupta,
Add on to previous response, you need not to have Pre-calculation server for Broadcasting reports.
Pre calculation server is required for work books only, you could make your PC as pre-calclation server for testing purpose.
We have plenty of documents for IB configurations, please check out in forum.
Regards,
Venki
Edited by: VENKAT78 on Aug 28, 2010 11:01 PM

Information Broadcasting Excel Workbooks with Local Formulas

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Yes, I see some information in the precalc log, but nothing that seems to be wrong:
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Deepak,
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Dear SDN,
We have configured information Broadcasting in the Web Reports---
Scheduled and then when executing the following error is coming
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Thanks...
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Issue with Information broadcasting and pre-cal server in SAP BI

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TGJR0462ZFX'. invoked in thread 1 and job 'BIBCAST4L41566ZBZDN2N
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2VEA8O8D8FBHYCR4HVB5UI8_0.xls saved. :\WINDOWS\TEMP\BW\Analyzer\Workbooks
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Can anyone please help me with what all services need to be activated in SICF, a list of these services for information broadcasting to be successful. Points will be assigned accordingly.
regards,
Sree.

Hi
Please refer to following links these may b helpful for setting IB
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/40811e9c-4edd-2a10-06bd-c41e475f607a
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/709d747f-6b08-2b10-8f8c-b3e3c8c4ccd3
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[How To Troubleshoot Information Broadcasting (BEx Workbooks)|http://www.sapadvisors.com/resources/HowtoInformationBroadcasting.pdf]
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*& Program to mass update BEx Variants within SAP NetWeaver 2004s *
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