Manually Executing Information Broadcasting

Dear all experts,
I have a requirement to send an email to related reponsible persons, when there is unwanted data (e.g. value X is greater than a treshold). At first I tried to use the Information Broadcating technique with defining an exception. However, I encountered some of these problems.
1) I want the information to be broadcasted authomatically after the approver verify the information first. For example, if the approver approved the data, and there are some unwanted data in those approved data, the information should be broadcasted to responsible persons. However, if the approver does not approve it, the information should not be sent.
2) From the provious problem, I tried to find a way to execute the information broadcasting manually (maybe by ABAP Programming), after the approver approves the data. Unfortunately, I can't find any function or any class to do so.
All of this is just an idea of beginner. It would be great, if you have others better solutions.
Thank you in advance.

Hi,
I want the information to be broadcasted authomatically after the approver verify the information first. For example, if the approver approved the data, and there are some unwanted data in those approved data, the information should be broadcasted to responsible persons. However, if the approver does not approve it, the information should not be sent.
Using information broadcasting u can precalculate and send the query or webtemplate, workbook, queryview to email or portal.
Your requirements is somewhat strange.
In information broadcaster one setting is called Exception broadcasting, but it is not suitable for your requirements(as far as i know). Because whenever exception occurs in your query it will broadcast to mail or alert that's it .
May be we will wait for some bw experts reply.
If it is useful assign points.
Regards,
Senthil Kumar.P

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Dear SDN,
We have configured information Broadcasting in the Web Reports---
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500 internal server error - Microsoft internet explorer
Error when processing your request
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Note
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Hi,
You can send the workbook automatically when you schedule thru information broadcaster.
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Have a look at OSS note 760775 ..
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Please advice me.
Appreciate for your co-operation.
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Hi all,
Can anyone pls explain me,
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Thanks

Hi all,
Can anyone pls explain me,
i have executed a broadcasting job manually, will that create a foreground job nor a background job??. because i need to track of a job which was scheduled manually today?
Hi Pooja,
You can do what ever required, Need to check first Precalculation servers availiability in RSPRECADMIN, then
if you want to exucute manully try go that broadcasting job you can find tab execute ..press it then its give a popwindow
all are green means its successful. if you want to schedule it background press schudule tab you can give time and date
and if you wnat daily or montly or particular day in week you can set options there and . give proper workbook which you
need to broadcast and later on don't forget to save..
job background schedule check in SLG1 T.CODE
Successful broadcasting jobs under sost t.cde
I hope it will helpful
Thanks ,
sreenu

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Dear friends,
Could you pls help me with the procedure to configure the information broadcasting in BI7.0.
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3.As per our understanding we can access bex broadcaster in web environment only(in browser).Is there any other way to access bex broadcaster to email the reports to the users?.
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Thanks in advance for your time and help.
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Pecalculation with Information Broadcasting

hi,
I am try to set up this scenario but somewhere i am missing some setting. I need your suggestions.
I have one query on multiprovider which includes 8 cubes. The query takes half an hour to display the results. So, what i have done is i have done the precalculation of the query for specific selection and executed it. And after that i want to send an email to the users through Information Broadcasting with the link so that when they click on the link they could get the results within a minute along with navigations or drill downs.
I know that this broadcasting can be executed via process chains using trigger event data chain. But i am looking for some help on this.
I would like to set up my report like this:
1) After data is loaded into Cubes, the process chain should kick the job.
2) After process chain kicks the job, the precalculation of the web template should run.
3) After the precalculation is completed an email should be sent to the users via broadcasting with a link of latest data.
Over all, after the data loading finishes, the precalculation should start and after precalculation finishes, email process should kick. ...
How can i acheive this? If there is any wrong sequence above also, please correct me and advise how should i set this up. I could manually do this each step but i want to automate this after every data load. Please advise.
Thanks in advance...

Hi,
You can achieve thru information broadcasting.
Steps :
1. Create a process chain.
         Start - Trigger Event data change .
         In the trigger Event data change ,you can specify the infoprovider name which you want to precalculate the query for the infoprovider.
2. In the information broadcaster , you will find the option as
              ' Execution with Data change in the infoprovider'.
                     Mark the check box for the infoprovider.
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           Only thing is you have to start the process chain , once you know the timing when infocube get load finsihed , then you can specify the timing in the start variant of the process chain..
I hope you get my answer.
Regards,
Siva.

INFORMATION BROADCASTING IN BI-7

Hi,
When I Broadcast with WEB TEMPLATE through Process chain(BY MAIL,MHTML format)) the data is not geting picked up from the query,but when i execute manually(BROADCAST) the data is geting picked from the query.Any solution please let me know.
Sanjeev
Thanks = Points in SDN

Hi Sanjev,
Regarding your case ..
I suggest you use information broadcasting ..
By this, you can arrange the schedule to broadcast the report to corresponding recipients, also you can send the workbook to ..
But you need to do preceding setup for it.
Here are several references:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/ca6de811-0c01-0010-43b2-c64584eef943
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/84/30984076b84063e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/84/30984076b84063e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/bpx-analytics?rid=/webcontent/uuid/a8cd1f71-0a01-0010-4783-f119b6132d25 [original link is broken]
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c39fb990-0201-0010-abae-ba08ada8026b
And the setting notes:
760775
Hopefully it can help you a lot.
Regards,
Niel.
thanks for the points you choose to assign.

Error While executing a broadcast setting in BW 7.4

hi dear BEx Gurus,
I am using BEx Broadcaster to a great extent, many of our critical reports are being sent to the users though BEx Broadcaster. Everyday around 700 triggers are executed automatically. These were working perfectly before we upgraded our system to BW 7.4. I am seeing this error message(Please refer to the screenshot) while I execute the broadcast setting manually from the BEx Query designer --> Publish --> Boradcaster.
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Successful job
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xla" gram Files\Common Files\SAP Shared\BW\BExAnalyzer.
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SAPBEXPRECMML
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3/10/2011 10:22:58 AM (1) -> InitConnection in thr ead 1
3/10/2011 10:22:58 AM (1) -> Trying to open "C:\Pr ogram Files\Common Files\SAP Shared\BW\BExAnalyzer
.xla" ogram Files\Common Files\SAP Shared\BW\BExAnalyzer
3/10/2011 10:23:20 AM (3) -> RS_PREC_GET_SERVER_ST ATUS invoked.
3/10/2011 10:23:20 AM (3) -> RS_PREC_GET_SERVER_ST ATUS finished
3/10/2011 10:23:44 AM (1) -> Using Version 7100.4. 1200.35 of BExAnalyzer.xla
3/10/2011 10:23:44 AM (1) -> PID of Excel process: "2544"
3/10/2011 10:23:44 AM (1) -> EndOfInitConnection i n thread 1
3/10/2011 10:23:44 AM (1) -> RS_PREC_LAUNCH_EXCEL finished
3/10/2011 10:23:44 AM (5) -> Calculation Request 9 11A35ED02654D789871000900000000 received for job '
BIBCAST4L41566ZBZDN2NTGJR0462ZFX'. 11A35ED02654D789871000900000000 received for job '
3/10/2011 10:24:27 AM (0) -> RS_PREC_GET_SERVER_ST ATUS invoked.
3/10/2011 10:24:27 AM (0) -> RS_PREC_GET_SERVER_ST ATUS finished
3/10/2011 10:24:31 AM (5) -> Opening workbook: C:\ WINDOWS\TEMP\BW\Analyzer\Workbooks\SAPBEXPRECQB2VE
A8O8D8FBHYCR4HVB5UI8_0.xls WINDOWS\TEMP\BW\Analyzer\Workbooks\SAPBEXPRECQB2VE
3/10/2011 10:24:52 AM (5) -> Refresh BExAnalyzer.x la!MenuRefreshPrecalc returned with 1.
3/10/2011 10:24:52 AM (5) -> Calculated workbook C :\WINDOWS\TEMP\BW\Analyzer\Workbooks
SAPBEXPRECQB
2VEA8O8D8FBHYCR4HVB5UI8_0.xls saved. :\WINDOWS\TEMP\BW\Analyzer\Workbooks
SAPBEXPRECQB
Thanks in advance
Narendra

Hi Ravikanth,
Thank you very much for the reply
I went into RSPRECADMIN and clicked on 'Display Current Queue'. There we have 3 sections
1) Queue Overview of Open Precalculations
I can see this section is always blank after running IB also
2) Queue Overview of Current Precalculations
In this section I can see an entry after running IB and duration is changing. but some time workbook in this section will never processed but the duration column is changing may be something is happening at this stage.
If the entry is not proccessed in this section and IB SM37 job will never end. I manually cancelled the job from SM50.
Don't why the workbook is taking long time and will never end even though I cancelled the SM37 IB job.
3) Queue Overview of Proccessed Error-Free Precalculations
All the error free workbooks which means all pre-cal server completed workbook calculation and sent to SOST.
I manually ran the workbook for all the 20 employees I can't find any pop-up message (earlier we have pop-up windows appearing because of VB code and when report returns no data and we fixed the pop-up issues)
Can you please help me further to trace the error.
Thank you
Narendra

Information Broadcast Email File - Where is the file in Unix directory?

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I am using Information Broadcasting to email the BI report. We use Unix as the application server.
In transaction SOSV, I can get detailed information on the file (attachment) and the send status. There is a requirement to encrypt the file in Unix server. Does anyone know where the file resides in Unix when the report is generated from Information Broadcasting? What's the Unix directory?
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Hi
I have a workbook with one query which displays different information on two tabs. This query has a controllable variable (customer exit) on "Material" from a query in another info cube.
Everthing is fine when you execute the workbook as you can select the variable from another info cube. However, when I set up information broadcaster job for this workbook, the controllable variable only takes effect on the report in one tab and runs for everying for the report on the other tab.
I tried to change the query slighly but keeping the same controllable variable and insert the new query into the other tab, it still doesn't work for me.
Is this just the limitation of IB or anything else can be done to get the results I want?
Kind Regards!
Feng

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Information Broadcasting: Monthly Reporting with variable dates

Dear all,
we have created a lot of reports with RD and have pubished the reports in the portal. Our reports have a lot of selection screens. Now we would like to use information broadcasting. We have already created information broadcasting settings. We have maintained fix variants for our reporting
For example:
Variant x1
Organization: C110
Scenario: Actual
Date: is filled by the user Exit
Now we tried to shedule the report. We are using Variant x1 to find the correct selection. The problem is, that we have already saved a fix date in the variant (for example 01.01.2008), because the field is obligatory.
The User-Exit for the variables works with step 1, but the problem ist, that the variant x1 is overwriting our User-Exit value.
How can I avoid, that the Variant is not overwriting the User-Exit. Of course for reporting without variant, the manual entry has priority before the user exit.
Thanks for a soon feedback.
XmxhX

hi,
in order to update months, firstly create variants for the reports. Then implement the below program modifying the users inputs. For current month or last month you have to hard something like sy-datum(6), an you have to hard code the field name for the month variable that you use in query.
Below program is for BI 7.0, you can also check the document. It also contains a method for bw 3.5 variants.
You can schedule this program in a process chain or make variations of this as needed.
[How To Troubleshoot Information Broadcasting (BEx Workbooks)|http://www.sapadvisors.com/resources/HowtoInformationBroadcasting.pdf]
*& Report Z_MASS_VARIANT_MAINTENANCE *
*& Program to mass update BEx Variants within SAP NetWeaver 2004s *
REPORT Z_MASS_VARIANT_MAINTENANCE.
parameter variable like RSRVARIANT-VARI.
parameter vname like RSRVARIANT-VNAM.
parameter sign_01 like RSRVARIANT-SIGN.
parameter opt_01 like RSRVARIANT-OPT.
parameter low_01 like RSRVARIANT-LOW.
parameter high_01 like RSRVARIANT-HIGH.
tables: RSRVARIANT.
select * from RSRVARIANT.
if rsrvariant-VARI = variable AND rsrvariant-vnam = vname.
rsrvariant-SIGN = sign_01.
rsrvariant-OPT = opt_01.
rsrvariant-LOW = low_01.
rsrvariant-HIGH = high_01.
elseif rsrvariant-vnam = vname.
rsrvariant-SIGN = sign_01.
rsrvariant-OPT = opt_01.
rsrvariant-LOW = low_01.
rsrvariant-HIGH = high_01.
endif.
update rsrvariant.
if sy-subrc 0. insert rsrvariant. endif.
endselect.
RSRVARIANT-VNAM must be your month variable.
RSRVARIANT-LOW and HIGH must be your automatic month like sy-datum(6)
regards,

Some questions on Information Broadcasting

Hi,
We're implementing Information Broadcasting. I have some questions and would be delighted if you could answer some or all of them!!
1. When using Web-templates I get the following message after opening my zip-file (Independent HTML-file) thru e-mail:
- Bex Broadcaster does not support Precalculation. What's the meaning of this? We get precalculate figures.
- The broadcaster demands that Javascript can be executed in the browser. How to solve?
2. When I broadcast a query as zip-file HTML with seperate MIME files then the precalculated views do not have drilldown functionality, i.e. the navigation block functionality does not work (static). I put navigation on Distribution channel. Is this normal way of working?
3. Broadcast functionality does not give possibility for Distribution type: 'Export to Enterprise Portal'.
We have an Enterprise Portal. Is additional customizing required?
4. Process chains have the Event Data Change process. This only works if I attach it directly to a cube. When I connect it to the process load data (i.e. to an Infopackage) it does not work. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!!
Kind regards, Harjan

Hi Harjan,
Not sure what the issue is with regard to (1).
With regard to (2), you need to to click on the 'Filter Navigation' tab in the BEx Broadcaster, enavle filtering, and select the characteristics you wish to filter on.
With regard to (3), yes, there's additional configuration required in order to be able to broadcast into the Enterprise portal. Here's the documentation: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/84/30984076b84063e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
With regard to (4), the idea behind integrating the broadcasting event into a process chain is to only perform the brodcast if the info provider was loaded successfully to ensure the end user has accurate and up to date information. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ec/0d0e405c538f5ce10000000a155106/content.htm
Regards,
Oliver

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