SEM-BPS Excel layout

Hi,
In SEM-BPS I use fiscal year variant K4 and when a Excel planning layout is started with a period October, 2007 to September, 2008 the system also displays a column with year = 2008 and period = 00.
How can I avoid this?
Thanks,
Jair

Hi,
isn't it accidently a misused "Summation" Column?
to switch it off:
8th icon from left hand side: a smiling face in front of a table.
Switch "Show total" off.

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Deleting lines in SEM-BPS Excel Layout

Within our BPS excel layout, if a user selects a line and deletes it, it only deletes the planned values in the key figures. It doesn't completely remove the line from the layout unless the user restarts the layout. We've tried checking and resumming, but these do not remove the line. Is there a way to delete a line and have it completely disappear without having to restart the layout?

Hi Lee,
you wrote:
If you select and delete, that line will disappear.
Does this happens even after characteristic values are protected?
Afte a line has been entered in BPS layout,
I can delete the entire line provided I've not executed any planning funciton / saved into cube. (at this point, characteristics are not protected)
If I do execute any planning funciton / saved into planning cube, at this point I doubt if one should be able to delete the entire line (both characteristics & key figures) (at this point, characteristics are protected & doesn't allow to delete the same manually)
at this point, to delete the line including protected characteristics, we will have to use delete funciton.
if am wrong, I'm also interested to know your solution.

Changes are not reflected into SEM-BPS 1 layout.

Hi,
1st, I've included code in SAPAfterDataPut that copies data from SEM-BPS 1 into New Sheet.
Now, I've inserted a method in the sheet module of New Sheet. This method takes care of reflecting changes from New Sheet into SEM-BPS 1 layout. but, finally am not getting changes back to SEM-BPS 1 sheet.
I've tested this in excel (outside of BPS) and it works fine.
in BPS, I went into VB debugging mode (after inserting a break point) and I can see that change that has been made in New Sheet was reflected back to SEM-BPS 1. But, when i test the same out of debugging mode, am not getting the same result.
Looks like,after changes in New Sheet, SAPAfterDataPut is again being executed and is overwriting the changes that I made in new sheet.
Do i need to inlclude code only in SAPBeforeDataPut to reflect changes from new Sheet into SEM-BPS 1?
In excel (outside of BPS), this method works in such a way that, as soon as i make changes in Sheet2 will get reflected into Sheet1 without runnning any macro.
but, with same code, this doesn't work in BPS. (instead of reflecting changes to SEM-BPS 1, changed value in New Sheet is reverted back to original value that is same as the value in SEM-BPS 1)
Appreciate any ideas/thoughts on this.

Hi,
Usually you work with a second sheet in the following way: write a macro that copies the data from the SEM-BPS 1 sheet to the new sheet. In order to run that macro include it into the macro "SAPAfterDataPut" and set the flag in the check box of in the popup of the third screen of the layout builder. The system will call the macro after the data has been written to the sheet SEM-BPS 1.
There is a second predefined macro that the system will executed provided that the flag is set on the popup in the layout builder. This macro is called "SAPBeforeDataGet". It is called before the BPS reads data from the SEM-BPS 1 and should be used for transferring the data back to the first screen (similar to the coding you have done in SAPAfterDataPut). Using this macro should solve your problem.
I did not understand how the changes are transferred from the new sheet in your (stand alone) case. Unfortunately it sometimes does make a difference if you test a macro in a stand alone Excel or in the Excel inplace. Some features are disabled in Excel Inplace (by Microsoft!!).
Best regards,
Gerd Schoeffl
SAPNetWeaver RIG BI EMEA

Modeling BPS excel layout

Hello,
Could anybody explain me, how can i insert into BPS excel layout excel and Visual Basic functionality (buttons, graphics, formulas)?
All my worksheet's rows are locked.
Could you send me docs about SEM BPS modeling?
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Hello Arunas,
you can make your changes on the third screen of the layout builder; if you save the planning layout these changes will be saved in the Excel template of the planning layout.
Usually (dependind on the changes) it may be more convenient to download a copy of the master template and implement your changes there. Then you can checking the Excel file as an Excel template for the planning layout, e.g. with report UPP_LAYOUT_CHECKIN, cf. note 428092.
Be careful with data in the Excel template: In the 'SAP area' the Excel templates contains no data (the dummy data
you see in the third screen of the layout builder will be cleared when you save the layout). Data in the SAP area will be overwritten at run time with transaction data, but the size of the SAP area (e.g. the number of used rows) of course depends on the transaction data.
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Validate mandatory field in BPS Excel layout

Hi Sdner
In my BPS Excel layout i want to have some characteristic as mandatory.If i don't put any value for them system will put a # by default which i don't want. system should prompt a error message that particular field is mandatory and enter some value. I can check this thru planning function(FOX) but the problem is all characteristics in that row will greyed out after function execution and hence can't be changed by user.
Does somebdy know if there is any workaround to solve this ?
Thanks
Tripple k

Hi Tarun
Use XL macros to validate data in a column.
When macro executes it first unprotect the worksheet,then we have our custom code for validation and error message, after that it is followed by a protect sheet command.
My Prob is that if error is there in any field raised by macro, user should be able to edit those fields but as we are protecting our worksheet in macro, editing is not possible.
I can't unprotect the worksheet because then user can change anything.
+Use a read function module on planning layout. While you are in layout change mode use lbexit_fm as a transaction code. You can read data from planning layout and write validation code and error message in ABAP function module.+_
I used this Tcode and FM, but they are ment to read Non SAP area of Excel sheet. The actual layout(Data Record)(SAP Area) which we want to read is not coming in internal table while executing FM.
On Execution it is saying that reading and writing on SAP protected data is not allowed.
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Using mime objects in bps excel layouts

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Hi Charles,
There are two How to documents available on SDN, to work on the MIME objects and the procedure for the same.
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/documents/a1-8-4/how to add a cascading style sheet into the mime repository.doc
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Authorizations in SEM-BPS (Web Layouts)

Hi all,
I have a question that hopefully somebody can help me in solving it.
We have a bps application, with authorizations maintained in the sap normal way: pfcg, rssm, etc.
The question is that we started to build some web (alv) layouts, and need to maintain the same authorization schema.However, the authorizations are not verified in the web layouts.
Can somebody provide some hint in solving this problem ?
Best Regards,
Ricardo

Hi Raman,
Sorry but your tip doesn't work
That's precisely our problem: the authorization scheme we implemented in the "SAP GUI side" doesn't work in the web side". Using web layouts, I still can acess some layouts I shouldn't be allowed to (user dependent)
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Microsoft Fix interferes with BPS Excel OWC

Dear Experts,
we had just rolled ou a MS security fix
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/973472.mspx
which deactivates some parts og ERxcel OWC.
As a consequence, BPS Excel layouts don't work anymore.
Has anybody already found some information on this? (a SAP note?)
Or is there already a workaround or something like that?
Best regards
Gregor

Hi Madhu,
very interesting. Which one of the workarounds did you use?
There are 4 described in the MS Note at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/973472.mspx
1) Prevent Office Web Components Library from running in Internet Explorer
2) Unregister the Office Web Components Library
3) Restrict Web sites to only your trusted Web sites
4) Set Internet and Local intranet security zone settings to "High" to prompt before running ActiveX controls in these zones
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- YES excel BPS layouts dont work with the MS Workaround Fix
- SAP is waiting for MS to fix the underlying vulnerability which would make the workaround obsolete
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Gregor

Web Layouts in SEM-BPS

Hi all,
I have the following question related to web layouts in sem-bps (non excel):
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Ricardo

Hi Raman,
Sorry but your tip doesn't work
That's precisely our problem: the authorization scheme we implemented in the "SAP GUI side" doesn't work in the web side". Using web layouts, I still can acess some layouts I shouldn't be allowed to (user dependent)
Thank you anyway
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Refresh current SEM-BPS layout

Hi,
I have a need to refresh the current SEM-BPS layout after executing a planning sequence.
How do i do that?
the problem is,
A planning sequence reposts current layout data & the data disappers from the layout but the document icons still appear in the layout. (these are just virtual icons meaning it doesn't let me to delete/edit the document. If i click on these icons, nothing happens but the icons just appears)
I switched the layout (another button in the folder) after executing this planning sequence & again came back to the 1st layout & the icons are gone.
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Appreciate any kind of help.

Hi,
I guess the problem lies in the way the Excel macros transmit the data from the BPS sheet to your sheet. The best way to handle the problem is to insert a delete operation in you VBA coding before the new data is transferred to the second sheet. What I mean is in the macro SAPAfterDataPut you first delete all data in the second sheet (including the icons) and then transfer everything to the second sheet.
You cannot trigger a "restart" of the Excel layout via a planning function. If you are in a layout and trigger a planning function the system notices that the same layout should be shown and thus does not restart the Excel (for performance reasons). If you switch to another layout then the Excel application is stopped and a new Excel is started. There is no way to influence this behavior without doing a system modification.
Best regards,
Gerd Schoeffl
SAPNetWeaver BI RIG EMEA

RABAX_STATE type of error while accessing SEM-BPS layout

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Hi Smruti,
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How to Remove totals on few columns from SEM BPS layout

On SEM BPS layout it has 10 5 charatestics columns
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out of these key figures I want see totals on some
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for wxample it does not make sense of seeing total under
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I think Aperture exhibits some conceptual confusion here. First of all, a "light table" is created by the New > Light Table command, and you add images to the newly created light table just as you would add them to an album. But those images don't go on the light table layout until you drag them from the browser to the layout table. The "put back" button and "remove from light table" contextual menu command both mean remove from the layout. The phrasing of the contextual menu command make it sounds as if it will remove the clicked image from the light table's collection of images, like removing an image from an album -- it would have made more sense to name this command "put back". Furthermore, the "put back" button is above the layout display, not above the browser, which to me implies that it applies to selections in the layout display. To select an image in the browser, and click "put back selected" seems backwards -- if you just selected the image in the browser, your attention is focused on the browser, not the layout; from the browser's point of view, the button should read "bring back" not "put back".
The documentation didn't really help when I was trying to figure this out. Sometimes the Aperture documentation refers to just a "light table", as on the overview on page 732. On pages 733 and 734, though, it refers to a "light table album". On page 735 of the Aperture manual there is a very brief explanation of how "to add images to the light table" and "to remove an image from the light table". Here, "light table" refers to the layout not the album. The explanation of the "Put Back Selected" button says to select an image then click the button, and the picture shown is of an image selected in the layout, not in the browser.

SEM BPS Layout Performance trace

Hi guys,
our users are reporting following issues from Sales Planning Budget planning layout. User needs to restrict on a start page 1) Sales responsibility 2) Value Segment 3) Sales Employee 4) VAT code
They experience problems when selecting the variable values above, it can take many minutes before you can change the next variable value - sometimes it is not working at all. Sometimes, when users are able to choose all the values and press start planning function button - they don't get anything but blank layout.
So is there a way to trace somehow the performance of BPS planning layout and enhance it?
Thanks in advance, appreciated!
Riku
Edited by: Riku Uski on Feb 1, 2008 12:54 PM

Thanks for this, it was related to overall performance tuning etc.
We're currently running in BW 3.5 but in some time IP and BI7 should be alive - then there's a place from tuning.
Now I am still trying to find the bottle neck for the current issue so if someone has got information on solving this, cheers
Riku
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Performance concerns in upload flat file into SEM-BPS.

Hi,
we are using HOW-TO document to upload flatfile into SEM-BPS.
in the same exit function, we have a need to derive missing characteristic values from reference data.
So, we are reading reference data using API_SEMBPS_GETDATA.
upload is taking around 10 minutes in test systems. our concern is, if taking so long for test systems with less data , what about production time with more data?
from what all I can see is, most of the time is being consumed at reading reference data.
I'm dealing around 14000 records of reference data & around the same number of uploaded records. Initially, system status is, "number of cells to be formed : 33092" and then immediately after 5 seconds, status changes to, "formed cells : 33000" and this status stays for like 8 minutes.
I'm not using any input/output layouts but just exit planning function in the planning folder. So, I anticipate that above status is while reading reference data but not due to huge amounts of uploaded records.
When I ran the same exit funciton by commenting just the "reading reference data" code, upload function execution time came out as 2 minutes.
What is the best bet in dealing this scenario?
Usually, what is the best approch to read reference data / to derive missing characteristic values?
I couldn't able to use "Char Relationship using reference data" as it might not be suitable in my case. Even if suits, am missing enough documents/info/examples to deal "Char Relationship". Documentation on help.sap.com is not enough in this case.
PS: initially, when I tried to read 14000 records at detailed level, exit funciton returned no reference data & in the debugging mode, I could see a message "too many records".
Can a given layout read only a maximum of 9999 records / excel rows?
records are at CALMONTH level. As I don't need CALMONTH for derivation of characteristic values, I have deleted CALMONTH from " READ reference data" level to avoid the above message. Does this anyway relates to peformance?
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Hello Hari,
it is touch to say what exactly causes this performance problem. Since you are dealing with custom coding (the how-to + your derivation logic), I suggest to do an ABAP trace (SE30) to see where the time is really spent.
The API call to read data should not take more than a few seconds. Test it separately by putting the API call into a simple ABAP program.
As Mary pointed out already, there's a 9999 line limit for layouts and therefore the GETDATA API as well.
Note: The file upload/download how-to solution was never meant for mass data loads. This needs to be done using regular BW functionality.
Regards
Marc
SAP NetWeaver RIG

VBA code not working in SEM-BPS 3.2

We are currently running on BW 3.1 and SEM-BPS 3.2 environment. I am trying to create a screen in excel with VBA code doing validation on user input. For some reason the code works perfectly fine in standalone Excel. But when it comes to BPS, the code does not work. Is there any setting to invoke the code? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Bindu,
Thanks for your reply. I checked in the layout builder and both the VBA Macro - SAPAfterDataPut and SAPBeforeDataGet are checked. Below is the code:
Thanks again!
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
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