QAAWS prompts

Hi,
I've created a web intelligence report and then published the report area as a web service.
The web intelligence report has some selection options as prompt (optional).
When I use this web service in Xcelsius, I see the selection option under input values of connection parameters.
However when I run the report, these selections do not come as a popup in the dashboard.
What could be missing here?
Thank you!

Hi Futility,
Web service connections in Xcelsius (esp. QaaWS and WebI web services) are designed to be used and consumed as sheer data connectors, which means that they do not bring any GUI features such as the existing WebI pop-up you are familiar with.
If you want prompts to be filled, value selection should be set as you expect it to be in the Xcelsius dashboard, and pass corresponding values to your web service through the Excel worksheet areas...
If you need the web service to be invoked as the dashboard is opened, you need to check the refresh on load option for the corresponding web service connection on the data manager, and ensure that the prompt values you need are picked somewhere (as you expect it to be). If you are working with WebI web services (BI Services), do not forget to set the web service input parameter refresh to true (ie value 1 or TRUE ) to ensure underlying WebI document is actually refreshed for new prompt values to be taken into account (otherwise document is not refreshed and previous selected values will be used).
Hope that helps,
David.

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Hello again,
Have you first checked and tried this call directly from WebI rich Client web service tester panel (might be easier to assess).
Parameter values TRUE or 1 should also make it.
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Prompt values is invalid.

Hi,
In Xcelsius when I preview a report, getting an error like "Promt values is invalid"
I have SP2 installed and earlier i dont have this problem.
How tor resolve this issue?
Thanks in advance

Some checks you could perform :
1. build same query as QaaWS in WebI, with the same prompts & universe, check whether it gets data in a WebI report with the same prompt values.
2. check how prompt value is passed from Xcelsius to QaaWS using an HTTP sniffer, watch especially value formatting differences between XI 3.1 & SP2 (esp. if value is numeric or date).
Besides, could you specify the label for prompt where you have an issue (i.e. prompt name), does this include special character that are changed into underscores ('_') in the WSDL specification? There was an issue with special characters and QaaWS prompt labels some time ago with XI 3.0 or earlier.
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Hi,
I think you can achieve in two ways ...
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HI Abhi,
The Issue seem to be not from BO Universe. Can you please go and check the data at Bex report and to apply same condition over there.
This might help us to track where exactly the error is happening.
Since the flow is from Cubes to Bex Queries to Universe to QaaWS or Weni Reports.
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Hope this may help you now and in future.
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QAAWS gives invalid prompt

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My dashboard Data is not displayed in Xcelsius or InfoView and have encountered the error as below:
All of your system's 0 Concurrent Access Licenses are in use at this time
or your system's license key has expired. Try again later or contact your
administrator to obtain additional licenses. (FWB 00014)
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Hi,
I do not know the content of the SAP Note you are referring to, but it seems you are encountering the usual pre-XI 3.1 issue of QaaWS.
Before XI 3.1, QaaWS management servlet used to connect to the CMS independently of consumers or any actual user connection (this was required to get QaaWS queries descriptions to generate WSDL files and some runtime parameters). To do so, QaaWS used a specific 'background' user, usually called QaaWSServletPrincipal, which, as any other user, eats up a license. If the number of available concurrent access license is low, this background user may drive you into that issue (error message tells by itself).
Ways to mitigate this are :
1. Increase the number of available license (self evident).
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3. Update to XI 3.1, in that release & following, background user has been removed (for security reasons), WSDL data is managed differently.
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BW Variable as Prompt values in Xcelsius

Hi Experts,
We want to create Xcelsius report based on BW Query.
We can't use direct connection BW/Xcelsius because we haven't stack Java installed.
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BW Query has a mandatory prompt but we can't have a pop-up on Xcelsius. We have to put values directly on worksheet to filter the report (But we loose query's flexibility).
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is it possible a user open xcelsius file in PPT or PDF then it will ask for prompts values at run time in query as a web service connection..
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Amit

Hi Amit,
We cannot get a prompt directly from QaaWS but we can make a prompt screen in the xcelsius itself.
Make a window with the help of a bacground component and add the combo box or other selector to pass information to QaaWS binded cell.
Then after selecting that value make the QaaWS trigger on that value.
And through Dynamic Visibility make the window appera when you load the dashboard.
Let me know if you need any help.
Better you send me your mail ID such that i can send you a sample one.
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Hello David,
I use an OLE DB connection to a MS SQL Server 2005.
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Rank in QaaWS not working correctly?

Hi,
I am trying to integrate a simple Top 10 customers query in XCelsius using QaaWS:
I've built a simple universe on MS AdventureWorksDW Sample Database.
Using this universe, I've built a QaaWS using dimension Name, measure Sales amount (sorting on Sales amount).
I added an Rank filter to show top 10 Name based on Sales amount.
Until now everything ok.
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Regards,
Stefan

Hello David,
I use an OLE DB connection to a MS SQL Server 2005.
Connection Details say:
Version 2.0.0.29
Build 12.1.0.882
Network Layer OLE DB
DBMS Engine MS SQL Server 2205
Database used is MS AdventureWorksDW sample database (data warehouse sample)
I noticed that only with this database, ranking is selectable (not with the AdventureWorks non-DW sample database).
Ranking itself seems to work, if I activated ranking (e.g. Top 10 customers) everything is ok.
(Also if I send a direct SQL command with ranking to the DBMS, it seems ok.)
Issue arise if I add year filter. Combination of rank and year filter does not seem to work properly.
Any idea why? Or do you wanted to say that this issue might also be related to DBMS support? I would hope / expect to get a straight "ranking not supoorted" and not incorrect data back ...
Thanks for your answer anyway!
Regards,
Stefan

Qaaws not refreshing query triggered from Xcelsius, maybe a cache problem

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Hello Alejandro,
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FYI, you can set the QaaWS cache lifetime for each query, by going into QaaWS edition first wizard screen, click Advanced... button and change value for timeout parameter (default is 60 seconds)
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Create a Webi report using QAAWS as a data source

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I am on BO 4.1 SP 3, and using the Webi Rich Client to create a WEBi report using a QAAWS url as a data soruce.
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Hi,
Given the error message you have and clue you give, problem is beyond QaaWS and Xcelsius, and is very likely to come from BW connection & universe (WIS 10901 identifies errors triggered from outside WebI server).
Although universe design and BW are far from being my specialty, I'd suggest you update everything from universe to Xcelsius to character (so to be consistent with what's seems expected in the universe query) to see if error is still there.
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