Protect variants in BEx reports - BI 7 version

Hi,
BI 7.0 version of BEx reports do not have the 'Protect variant' option. Is there any other way of Protecting variants from being changed by other users.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi,
We can protect the workbooks with password in workbook setting.
Change Variable will allow us to change only Description, Variable entry optional or mandatory and ready for input.
Thanks,
ashok

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Creating variants in BEX reports in BI 7.0

hI ,
We are in BI 7.0 .
I am trying to create variant with SY-DATUM -1 in bex report .
Whenever I execure the report , the selection screen date should be syatem date - 1 in variant .
When i select the variant it should automatically pickup current date -1 . I was familiar with BW3.5 but BI 7.0 screen is totally different .
Please can anybody help to me resolve the issue

Hello Venkat,
You can create a customer exit variable for 0CALDAY and assign the value SY-DATUM - 1 in the exit . So whenever you execute the variable it will be filled with the current date - 1 value.
Goto the General Tab page and select the processing type as Customer Exit,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/ac/789b3c4d4d8d15e10000000a114084/content.htm
Hope it helps
Thanks
Chandran
Edited by: Chandran Ganesan on Feb 6, 2008 7:45 PM

BW reports (BEx Reports) in Sneak preview ABAP version

Hi All,
Is it possible to display the BW data in BEx reports with help of Tr code RRMX in Sneak preview ABAP trail version.
When i try to run Trcode RRMX system says Please install Excel as viewer..
Please let me know , how we can display data.
Regards.
Hari

Hi,
May be your SAP GUI, BW components are not installed. Reinstall SAP GUI and select BW checkbox during installation. Also you need to have ur excel macro setting (tools->macro->security) as either low or medium.
check this note: 160995-BEx Analyzer: Excel Add-ins interfere at the start.
If you are in 7.0, you need to unstall your front end and reinstall the 7.0 front end.
You may troubleshoot using below link
Troubleshoot the SAP NetWeaver 2004s BI Frontend Installation
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Srikanth

BW Reports( BEx reports) in Sneak preview ABAP trail version.

Hi All,
Is it possible to display the BW data in BEx reports with help of Tr code RRMX in Sneak preview ABAP trail version.
When i try to run Trcode RRMX system says Please install Excel as viewer..
Please let me know , how we can display data.
Regards.
Hari

Hi,
May be your SAP GUI, BW components are not installed. Reinstall SAP GUI and select BW checkbox during installation. Also you need to have ur excel macro setting (tools->macro->security) as either low or medium.
check this note: 160995-BEx Analyzer: Excel Add-ins interfere at the start.
If you are in 7.0, you need to unstall your front end and reinstall the 7.0 front end.
You may troubleshoot using below link
Troubleshoot the SAP NetWeaver 2004s BI Frontend Installation
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Srikanth

General Question on BPS - BEx reporting

Hi there matez,
I have :-
Planning Level Z: which contains the 2 following Package's
PACKAGE A: Actual Data
Version -> Plan
Currency -> USD
Fiscal Year/Period -> (replaced by Variable in Layout)
Fiscal Year Variant
Listing -> a Characteristic
PACKAGE B: Plan Data
Version -> Plan
Currency -> USD
Fiscal Year/Period -> (replaced by Variable in Layout)
Fiscal Year Variant
Listing -> a Characteristic
LAYOUT (Key Figures in Lead Column)
Version -> Header
Currency -> Header
Fiscal Year/Variant -> Header
Fiscal Year/Period -> Data Column
Listing -> Lead Column
My Question specifically here is :-
1) When I execute my report, how do I know which PLANNING PACKAGE is the data coming from ?
2) So, if I were to now create in my BEx report a Column for Month:Actual Values and Month:Plan Values, how can I achieve this ?
3) In my current report, I see in certain cells the text ' ERROR' instead of the USD ?
Kindly advice.

Hi John
Q1
When i say report do u mean BIW Query or BPS Layout:
If BPS Layout:
Then whenever u create a planning folder u have to select the package. The data will come from the package selected
If BW Query:
Then package is irrelevant as the data will be from the cube.
Q2
In case u were to see plan and actual in the column then u can place the version char in column in ur query and restict it to the plan and actual version.
(In ur example u hv given veriosn as plan in both the package. I think it shld be Plan and Actual)
Q3
The reason u r seeing error in certain cells might b bcoz that data is coming without currency/UoM.
Hope this is helpful
Chirag S

Shortened Fiscal Year and its impact on BI back end and Bex reports

Hi All,
Our client is making some changes to the fiscal year period.
Becuase of some business requirements, we will have to shortened the fiscal year.
Can you please suggest - what are the watch points when we do this?
- what will be the impact to BI back end and Bex reports?
Thanks,
Nisha

Hello Nisha,
Since the fiscal year (Infobjects - 0FISCYEAR and/ 0FISCPER3) is compounded with fiscal year variant, therefore maintaining the correct variant in BI will automatically take care of showing the data correctly.
So there are two things to be maintained in BI:
1) To see that the variant definition.
2) If you need to display the text of the fiscal periods, then the correct texts.
Let me know if you need more clarifications.
Regards,
Shweta
Edited by: Shweta Kesarwani on Jan 8, 2010 11:10 AM

BEx Report Performance with selection-screen input

Hello Gurus,
My Bex report is working fine when the report had run with out PLANT filter in the selection-screen but when report had run with plant in the selection-screen , report running for forever.
Please let me know what I need to do improve the performance.
Saleem.

Hi Saleem, Just a few thoughts;
1. Check the M-table in RSD1 for 0PLANT. In Table View edit any blank or null values. Run the same restrictions you apply in the query at Info provider level > Display Data. If there's any lapse; you can judge where exactly the problem lies.
2. If you are using Infocube & that your master is >20% fact; you can declare the Info object as 'Line Item Dimension'.
3. Create Variants. Esp. if you are running the query for same set of data. Try Variable Preselection: You can restrict both the values + varaiables in the filter level. When you execute the values will be visibly pre-selected in selection screen.
4. As discussed in previous messages, running a SQL trace using RSRT may prove useful.

Bex Report Designer is not previewing changes in QA

Hi All,
Please help... i am getting an unusual problem with bex report designer. I have created a bex report using report designer. This was then transported in to QA. In QA i opened my created report using report designer and clicked the print version button to preview the report in PDF format. This all worked correclty, however i noticed a spelling mistake in one of the custom text fields i am using.
So i put the report in a transport in dev, made the changes in dev and previewed in dev. Everything is ok here and i can see the change i made.
After this i transported the report to QA and when i open the report in report designer to preview the data i can see in design mode that the custom text field does HAVE the change i made so it is correct. The problem i am getting is though when i preview to see in PDF format the image i get is of the old preview with the spelling mistake.
SInce i have made more changes and i can see the changes in DEV and in QA in design mode but when i preview it shows me the old image from the 1st preview.
Please can anyone shed any light into this issue.
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Issue with Variable Personalisation in Bex Report

Hi Gurus,
I'm facing a typical problem with Variable presonalisation in the Report.
I've executed a BEX Report and filtered data on some characteristics and used SAVE AS Button on the Portal to save the resultset. When I'm trying to use the variants, again say after 2 or 3 days i couldn't find updated data for particular variants upon using the same variants rather its refelecting the old data. Further more when I execute the report and try filtering on the same criteria altogether, I'm able to see updated result set.
Is there any setting to be enabled when we personalise variants or variants are dependent on the data or the date on which they are created. Not sure why the reports are behaving this way. Or Do I need to create variants time and again.
Any pointers would be of great help.
Regard,
Yaseen

Hello,
In the BEx report, when you get the variable selection screen there input your selection and at the bottom you have the option of saving them as a variant.
Now in future when you run the report simply use this variant and execute the report. It should work fine.
Also remember date selection can be tricky. If you input todays date in the variant, it wil consider the same date in further references. So do a check on that too.
Regards,
Shashank

Automated execution and mailing of BeX reports

Hi,
I have a requirement which goes like this:
There is a report which gives a P&L statement for a cost center. Say I have one parent Cost Center Group and there are 100 Cost Centers within that group. The report allows the user to select variants based on the cost center. So they have to execute this report every month for 100 different cost centers in order to generate a P&L for each cost center.
Now the users want some sort of automated way to execute the reports every month for each cost center within a cost center group and then the results (XL based) delivered to them through email. The mail should contain workbooks or BeX reports.
Is it possible to implement this? If yes then how can this be achieved?
We are running BW 3.5.
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Nikhil

Hi Arun,
Do you have some document on how to use the RSCRM_BAPI transaction?
everytime I try to run an extract it generates an error "No authorization to create extract /BIC/0CYYNIKTEST of type Table"
and when I try to execute the query - it generates an OLAP error in a key figure.
The query is quite complexin the sense that it uses structures in both the rows & columns sections and also uses all possible types of variables and also hs built in variants already.
I would be grateful if you can send across some document on the transaction. I would have posted docs & screenshots of the query, but there is no way in SDn to do that.
Thanks & regards,
Nikhil

Unable to Open Bex report from SAP APO User Menu

Hi All,
I am an SAP APO consultant, and have not miuch expereice in BEx reporting. As APO uses Build in BI for reporting and pulling history from either external BW or R/3.
Now my issue all BEx reports we use are assigned ot my user menu and when I select a report, I would expect report to open but an excel sheet opens and closes and nothing happens. However I am able to open this reports from my desktop menu selecting Business explorer and Analyzer and linking my SAP system. I use Excel 2007 , Is this some compactibilty issue or is there anything I need to do?

Hi KV,
There's a couple of possible root cause why you dont see properly the Bex Report.
Can you share to me the APO version and the BW software component being used?
In case this is still in the 3.x, 4.x APO, I think, a separate BW add on is needed for you to run your BEx report properly. You can ask your basis team for this separate installation.
Btw, is this report working before, meaning was it pulled successfully already in the past?
Can you try doing this again in a separate workstation, as the BW add on is installed separately per workstation.
Its possible that this is also an auth issue that the user you are using is not capable enough to run BEx.
As of now, I have not encountered any Bex issue that is related with the Excel version, I have tried running Bex in Excel 2007 no issue also. I think it maybe more related with the OS you are using, if its in Vista already what I know is you need to add your excel as a trusted document before you can run bex fro Vista.
Let me think of other possibilities.
Hope this helps.
- Jeff

Bex Report Designer: Error while loading metadata

hi experts,
I am working with BI7 Bex Report Designer and we are using SP9. when i tried to load the Query in Report Designer its giving below error.
Error while loading metadata.
Check the Query and portal settings.(but the query is working fine in Analyzer).
and its giving message class RSBOLAP, message number 018 and Description is java system error: incoming call is not authorized.
when i double click the error its giving below error details.
Diagnosis
An error occurred in the BI components on the SAP J2EE Engine.
System Response
Procedure
Contact your system administrator to have the error analyzed in detail.
Procedure for System Administration
Start the Visual Administrator, log on to the SAP J2EE Engine and choose "<J2EE_SID>" ->"Server" -> "Services" -> "Log Viewer".
The file "defaultTrace.trc" includes detailed information about the error that occurred. In Windows, you can find this file in the Log Viewer under "Cluster <computer name>" -> "Server <server number>" -> "<drive>:\usr\sap\<SID>\JC<INSTANCE>\j2ee\cluster\server<NUMBER>\log". ". In Unix, the file is located under "/usr/sap/<SID>/JC<INSTANCE>/j2ee/cluster/server<NUMBER>/log".
If the file does not include enough detail about the error, you can increase the log level to obtain more information. To do this, choose "<J2EE_SID>" -> "Server" -> "Services" -> "Log Configurator". On the "Locations" tab page, choose "com" -> "sap" -> "ip" -> "bi" -> "webapplications". Using the selection list on the right side of the screen, you can increase the log level, whereby "DEBUG" represents the log level with the most information. You can save your settings by choosing the "Save" icon. The change to the log level is active immediately. Once you have successfully analyzed the error, you should set the log level back to its default value using the appropriate pushbutton; continuous writing to the log file negatively affects the overall performance of the system.
could you plz suggest me how to rectify the problem.
regards
vadlamudi

Hi vadlamudi
The error message RSBOLAP 018 means, that the ABAP stack can't communicate with the Java Stack.
1) Please ensure, that the user, used for the Report Designer, is valid in the Portal too. Depending on the user management setup this means that there either needs to be the same user or an assigned user in the Portal.
2) In case the user is valid, it means a basic misconfiguration according to note 937697. In this case please run the Support Desk Tool and ensure, that all checks are green. Please ensure, that the latest version of the Support Desk Tool is used.
Regards,
Janine

Text elements in the Bex Report

Bex Gurus,
When we execute the Bex report, it will display with icons on top as Chart, Filter and Information - Information will display all the text elements as standard. Right now I want to modify these standard elements and disply the text elements which are more meaningful to any business user when they execute any report/query in Bex
Left Side:
Current User     II79747
InfoProvider     ZBYDCTBUD
Status of Data     04/18/2008 10:01:05
Query Technical Name     Y_ZBYDCTBUD_VP_POOL
Query Description     VP Matrix by Pool - Actual
Right Side: (based on Variable Enteries/selection)
Fiscal Year
Posting Period
Value Type
Version:
I want to implement this in Bex excel report when we click on Informaion icon which will show the text elements as explaiend above. (I know it is possible with WAD when we design the code)

You may do this in a workbook inserting Buttons in design mode.
I dont think so there is an easy way to accomplish this when a report is executed.
May be possible with lot of coding....

Bex reports in non english language

What setting required to get the Bex reports in Japanese language. Provide more inputs..

Hi,
Regarding to the Japanese Displaying issue, it depends on what Bex version are you using to display the BEx report and please refer to thefollowing information:
1. If you are using BEx3.5 tool    It is necessary to set all the regioan and language settings in
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2. If you are using BEx7.0 tool
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Problem Running BEX report from SAP.

Hi All,
We are getting the below error message when we are executing BEX report from SAP.
"Analyzer requires version 140. The currently installed version is 066
Message no. RSR_LAUNCH_EXCEL107."
when i run the report for first time it is displaying correctly but, when i run it for second time (first one is already opened) then i get the above message.
Please let me know is there any setting or oss note related to this issue.
Thanks,
Shiva.

Hi,
Where is it happened? in Tx RRMXP, RRMX or when you execute Bex Analyzer?
Probe with this notes: 1086904, 1152929.
Regards.
Edited by: Conrado Linquet on May 11, 2009 9:55 PM

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