SD Report - Best Approach ( SD- FI Question )

I have a requirement of a SD report . The report is basically capture of details of Sales Order - Delivery - PGI - Billing Document - Accouting Entries .
The issue I run into is that if there are multiple materials in the sales order and there is just one delivery and Billing document , the Accounting entries when posted are merged together .
eg Material 1 - Say revenue goes to Account 1 , Freight to Account 2
Material 2 - Revenue goes to Account 1 , Freight to Account 3.
When the Accouting document is posted
Revenue Material 1 and 2 in a single entry in Account 1 so from report perspective there is no easy way to find out how those posting were made , I can simulate the postings but in that case in case customer comes with new rules of Accouting posting / Access sequence for revenue Account , the report needs to be modified .
Any suggestion ?

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We have a fact table in which 34 merge where there with 34 different dimensional table to update the 34 different facts.Are you talking about 34 fact tables, or
So we are hitting the fact table 34 times with 34 different dimesional table.A single FACT table getting updated 34 times?
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Why cant you fill the keys during INSERT ?
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Best approach to "migrate" from BEX reports to Webi reports ?

Hello,
i have read lots of documents regarding best practices on how to built webi reports and universes on top of BW.
But i can't find any document about best approach, not in performance way of thinking but in best way of using reports.
i mean: when end users are coming from bex reports (where they can drill down through hierarhies and use free filters ) to webi reports (where layout is quite beatiful and user can change it easely), this is not the same way of consuming reports.
I come from BO world and are new on reporting on top of BW.
for me webi is good for quite static layout reporting where data is clear and available.of course you can have prompts for interactivy and more accurate reporting. Drill down is just a functionality but is not the real purpose of the report tool.
So ,according to me there is a gap between both tools (BEX and WEBI) but end users are the same.
So i 'm wondering if you have any feedback for the best approach to build webi reports where end users are coming from bex reporting.
And how to choose between prompts, drill-down (with available filters on top of the window), fold/unfold and input controls or just having diffrent levels of hierarchies in the table/ section/ breaks but without drill down (because if you drill down, report begins weird with diffrent levels) ...?
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Hi,
WEBI don't replace BEX reports, is for different audience, in fact BEX is for OLAP reports and analysis.
You can find some answer in this page
[FAQ: The Future of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence in the Light of the NetWeaver BI & Business Objects Roadmap|FAQ - The Future of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence in the Light of the NetWeaver BI&Business Objects Roadmap [original link is broken]|FAQ]
spercific for What is the future of the BEx Query Designer? you can read here
[FAQ - The Future of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence in the Light of the NetWeaver BI&Business Objects Roadmap [original link is broken]#section11] and here [FAQ - The Future of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence in the Light of the NetWeaver BI&Business Objects Roadmap [original link is broken]#section3]
The idea is to use the rigth tool for the rigth job.
You can find more information here [http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/edw], [http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/index.epx], [http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/newsevents/index.epx], [http://www.sap.com/community/flash/BusinessIntelligenceAGuideforMidsizeCompanies.pdf]
I hope this help you.
Best regards.

Best Approach for Reporting on SAP HANA Views

Hi,
Kindly provide information w.r.t the best approach for the reporting on HANA views for the architecture displayed below:
We are on a lookout for information mainly around the following points:
There are two reporting options which are known to us and listed below namely:
Reporting on HANA views through SAP BW (View > VirtualProvider > BEx > BI 4.1)
Reporting on HANA views in ECC using BI 4.1 tools
Which is the best option for reporting (please provide supportive reasons : as in advantages and limitations)?
In case a better approach exists, please let us know of the same.
Best approach for reporting option on a mixed scenario wherein data of BW and HANA views is to be utilized together.

Hi Alston,
To be honest I did not understand the architecture that you have figured out in your message.
Do you have HANA instance as far as I understood and one ERP and BW is running on HANA. Or there might be 2 HANA instance and ERP and BW are running independently.
Anyway If you have HANA you have many options to present data by using analytic views. Also you have BW on HANA as EDW. So for both you can use BO and Lumira as well for presenting data.
Check this document as well: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-34403

What is best approach to report building in my case?

Hi all,
I'm just getting started with Crystal Reports for our Swing-based desktop application. We need the ability to generate PDF and XLS reports, perhaps later adding web-based dashboarding and interactive reports. I'm trying to determine the best approach to take with Crystal Reports to fit our application's data.
Our app stores results in a separate database (either Oracle, SQLServer, or Apache Derby). The result records contain lots of ID lookups to tables in another database. This makes using straight SQL for reporting difficult as I would like to avoid cross-database queries. So I'm thinking of using the POJO reporting approach where our app gathers the results, generates POJOs, and then passes them to the report.
My concern with this POJO approach is that it seems to require loading all results into memory and generating the report in one big step. I've read other posts referring to heap issues. Is there a way to avoid this? Some-how to page through report data?
I've also read that Crystal Reports can work with any data provider that implements ResultSet. Is this true? If so, could I create my own custom ResultSet implementation that would let me page through my results without loading everything into memory at-once? If possible, please point me to the documentation for this approach. I haven't been able to find any examples.
If there is a better approach that I haven't mentioned, please let me know.
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Definition of the best approach on how to do reporting between BPC and BW

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I need your opinion in the definition of the best approach on how to do reporting between BPC and BW.
For example if we want to do reporting using BW on Actuals Vs Budget how should we manage this since technically BPC Model and BW InfoCube is different?
BPC Models have the Budget and BW has the actuals, but the InfoObject that is used for Account is different. What is the best approach to do the reporting?
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Hi Gersh
I already thought in that option, but the problem is the Yellow requests in the Infocube that are not used by VP.
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hughanagle wrote:
But I'm intrigued... Given that you're completely au fait with PHP/MySQL solutions, what prompted you to integrate a Wordpress blog on your own site when you could have built one for yourself quickly and easily?
Several reasons:
I originally installed it in 2006, because I wanted to find out what all the fuss about WordPress was about.
I wanted to learn how to integrate a WordPress theme with the CSS for the rest of my site, so they would have an integrated look.
I don't blog very often (only six times so far this year).
The commenting and moderation system is very well organized. I didn't see much point in reinventing the wheel.
It's only a small section of my site. Most other pages aren't database-driven, but they do use a lot of PHP includes and conditional logic.
Why would any of us mortals bother building PHP/MySql blogs if guys as adept as you are using Wordpress?
If you want a blog, WordPress presents you with a ready-made solution that's very easy to set up. What's not so easy is modifying and styling it. That's where a good knowledge of PHP and CSS are essential. Also, I'd say that WordPress is not suitable for a lot of sites. That's why I don't use it for the other parts of my site.

What is the best approach to handle multiple FK with single table.

If two tables are joined with each other with more than one ways, for example
MAIN table is (col1, col2,....coln, person_creator_id, person_modifier_id)
PERSON table is (person_id, name, address,........ phone) etc
At database level PERSON_CREATOR_FK and PERSON_MODIFIER_FK are defined.
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If above two objects are imported with FKs in a EUL and discoverer plus is used to create above report. On first inclusion of person name discoverer plus will ask you to pick the join (provided the checkbox to disable this feature is not checked). Once you pick 'person creator' join it will never allow you to pick person modifier name.
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pc.name, pc.address,.... pc.phone
pm.name, pm.address,.... pm.phone
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person pc,
person pm
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Now discoverer plus will let you drag Name from each person folder without needing to resolve multiple joins.
Question is, what approach is better OR is there a better way?
With solution 1 you will not be able to use functions on folder items.
With solution 2 there is a EUL design overhead of including same object multiple times and then manually defining all join (or deleting unwanted joins), and this could be a problem when you have person_modifier and person_creator in nearly all tables. It could be more complicated if person table is further linked other tables and users want to see that information too. (for instance, if person address is stored in LOCATION table joined with location_id and user want to see both creator address and modifier address....now you will have to create multiple LOCATION folders).
A third solution could be to register a function in discoverer that return person name when person_id is passed. This will work perfectly for above requirement but a down side is the report will run slower if they need filters on person names (then function will be used in where clause). Also, this solution is very specific to above scenario, it will not work if you want the report developer the freedom to pick any attribute from person table (lets say, person table contain 50 attributes then its not a good idea to register 50 functions).
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thanks

Hi
In a roundabout way you have really answered your own question :-)
In my opinion, the best approach, although by all means not the only approach - see below) would be to have the object loaded as two folders with one join going to the first folder and the second join to the other folder. You would of course name the folders appropriately.
Here's a workflow that I use all of the time and one that I teach when I'm giving Discoverer Administrator training. It might help you:
1. Bring in the PERSON folder to begin with
2. Make all necessary adjustments to bring it up to deployment standard. These adjustments would be: folder name (E.g PERSON_CREATOR), item names, item placement, default positions, default aggregation and so on.
3. Create or assign the required lists of values
4. Create any required calculations
5. Create any required conditions
6. Create the first join from this folder to MAIN.
7. Click on the heading for the folder and press CTRL-C.
8. Click on the heading for the business area and press CTRL-V. A second copy of the folder, complete with all of the adjustments you made earlier will be inserted into the business area.
Note: joins are not copied, everything else is.
9. Rename this folder to say PERSON_MODIFIED
10. Rename the items as appropriate
11. Add a join from this folder to MAIN - you're done
Other ideas that I have used and work well would be to use a database view or create a complex folder. Either will work, In both cases you would need to join on some other column other than the ones you referred earlier.
I hope this helps
Best wishes
Michael

Newbie: What is the best approach to integrate BO Enterprise into web app

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What´s the best approach to work with Excel, csv files

Hi gurus. I got a question for you. According to your experience what's the best approach to work with Excel or csv files that have to be uploaded through DataServices to you datawarehouse.
Let's say your end-user, who is not a programmer, creates a group of 4 excel files with different calculations in a monthly basis, so they can generate a set of reports from their datawarehouse once the files have been uploaded to tables in your DWH. The calculations vary from month to month. The user doesn't have a front-end to upload the excel files directly to Data Services. The end user needs to keep a track of which person uploaded the files for a determined month.
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Just want to know what is the best approach to create the security feature in APEX, so that it should be re-used in other APEXApplications too..
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thanks for the detial info.
so that means..I should have 2 table...
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   user1       xxxx
   user2       xxxx2nd table (2 columns - username, chq_disp_option)
- In this table, we don't have Y/N Flag you mentioned..
- If we have to enter all the regions/tabs/pages in the Applications here or just those regions/tabs/pages for which are conditionally diaplayed.
- so that means in all the Pages/Regions/tabs/items in the entire Application, we have to call the Conditionally display..
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kim size of resulting select statement(s)
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Hi all,
We are following a function module based approach for our crystal reporting needs. We tried to follow an infoset approach, but found that most of the critical fields required for reports were retrieved from function modules and bapis.
Our reports contain some project filters/parameter fields based on which the task reports would be created. I was wondering what would be the best approach/best practices to be considered while designing the FM so as not to impact the crystal report performance?
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