Unsupported ISERROR function

Hello,
I've read a post in this forum explaining that Xcelsius SP1 supports the much needed IS() functions in Excel to supress formula results such as #N/A. It would appear that SP1 is for Xcelsius 2008. What about Xcelsius 4.5? ; I've been told by the Business Objects On Demand team to NOT upgrade to Xcelsius 2008 just yet. So my questions are, is there an SP for 4.5 that would bring support IS() Excel function(s)? If not, can anyone suggest a function/technique to supress Excel formula errors that is supported by Xcelsius 4.5?
thank you
Darrin

Andy,
I don't recall the specific reasons for their recommendation to remain on 4.5. I've asked them to comment. Their recommendation was to upgrade to Xcelsius 2008 and CR Designer 2008 after a BOE/CRDC platform upgrade is performed in spring 09. This would ensure the platform and designer app versions are aligned and as closely compatible as possible.
Thanks
Darrin

Similar Messages

Very urgent - Usage of IsError function in HFR

Hi All,
Its very urgent requirement for us.
How can we use the is error function in HFR.bcoz if the both values in formula ex: a/b ; a=0,b=0; then it shows some garbage value.i came to know we can achieve that
by using iserror function.but i dnt know how use it.
Thanks,
Ravi

Hi
It can be done in this way using IfThen condition
IfThen(IsErr((reference row/column),0,(reference row/column))
where IfThen checks the condition
Condition is IsErr, it returns true when reference formula row/column,has #error value, so you many assign 0 (or whatever value you want) else returns actual calulated value from formula row/column,.
PS: Only formula rows and columns can result in #error.
Cheers
Vikas Naidu

List of Unsupported Excel Functions

I just discovered Xcelsius doesn't support the "indirect" function. Can you provide a list of all functions that Xcelsius doesn't support so I can avoid them? Thanks very much!

Even I am facing the same error when I preview or save as a SWF, Xcelsius warns: "UnSupported Excel Function: INDIRECT indirect" and terminates the attempt.
I am using nested functions: "=IF(ISBLANK(INDIRECT("'"&'Summary'!D14&"'!B12")),"",INDIRECT("'"&'Summary'!D14&"'!B12"))"
Any ideas why xcelsius is throwing up an error when it lists INDIRECT as an supported function? I am using the most recent version (5.2.1.0, build 12,2,1,94).
Can anybody help me out with a workaround for navigating between worksheets without indirect function???
Thanks in Advance!
Cheers!!!

Question About Unsupported Excel Function Workarounds

Hi everyone! I hope this is ok to post something like this here. I haven't seen any rules against it so I am hoping I am able to. My apologies in advance if this is something I should ask in another location.
My question / issue is in regards to the unsupported ISNA and ISBLANK functions in Excel. I can't seem to find a suitable workaround for XCelsius without using those two formulas in Excel and I am hoping someone here will be able to help or guide me.
I have a cell that is for my input. If that cell has nothing in it I want Excel to continue to return the #N/A error as it is ignored and not shown in the List Box I have built in XCelsius. If there is a value input and it is not found in the Excel model I want it to return "No Record". Finally, if it is found then it will display the appropriate list of items.
Any suggestions on a way to get this to function within Excel that will be compatible within XCelsius?
Thanks in advance for your help everyone!

Hi Aaron,
both ISNA and ISBLANK are supported functions. The support for most IS() functions was added in SP1. They are not in the list in the help yet, but there should be the list of added functions in release notes. So, the following functions are supported:
ISERR
ISERROR
ISEVEN
ISODD
ISLOGICAL
ISNONTEXT
ISTEXT
TYPE
ISNUMBER
ISNA

Error: Unsupported Excel Function SUBTOTAL

I am receiving a runtime error that the Subtotal function isn't supported. However, SUBTOTAL is on the list of supported functions in help. What's going on here? Do I have to replace all of my subtotal functions with sums?

I also faced same issue with Xcelsius 2008 SP4. It seems like it is wrongly documented in the user guide. Custom add on function may be created for this feature.

Unsupported Excel function: IFERROR

I am currently running Xcelsius 5,3,4,0, Build 12,3,4,1038.
I thought that the IFERROR function of Excel was supported, but when I preview my chart I get the above message.
The formula I am using is:
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP($B$47,$B$2:$N$44,2,FALSE),0)

Hi,
We have a privelage to add some advanced excel fucntion to xcelsius , the following link shows how you can add
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG_UY5Y5QOw
Regards,
AnjaniKumar C.A.

Unsupported Excel Function: RANDBETWEEN

I am using a random number generator in my excel and linking the randomly generated text to a ticker component in XC. I can do this, but get the above error message when saving to HTML. This message appears when generating the swf.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Stan

Unfortunately, RANDBETWEEN function is not currently supported. You can use RAND() instead. As Excel help says,
To generate a random real number between a and b, use:
RAND()*(b-a)+a
Margaret

Excel Function iserror is not supported

Hi !
I am using vlookup along with iserror to remove an errors that result of a logical lookup.
For e.g. a sample formula on my sheet would look like
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(A1,A1:B22,2,0),"",(VLOOKUP(A1,A1:B22,2,0))
Everytime I build a preview, Xcelsius comes back to me with "iserror function not supported". Does Xcelsius not support this function?
Xcelsius Version: 2008 (Version 5.1.1.0, Build: 12,1,1,344)
Regards
Pranav Gaur

Correct, the formula =ISERROR() is not supported in Xcelsius 2008.
For a complete list of all supported formulas, please go to Help --> Xcelsius Help. Then expand the last expandable section called "Supported Excel Functions".
edit: ISERROR is supported from SP1 forward (as noted in Margaret's post). My original post was based off of information from the initial release of Xcelsius 2008.
Edited by: David Lopez on Nov 5, 2008 11:09 AM

Which functions and features in Numbers are NOT exported correctly to Excel?

I wish to know EXACTLY which functions I use in a Numbers sheet WILL FAIL to export correctly to an Excel or Neoffice spreadsheet.
For instance, I created a Numbers spreadsheet using prolific use of the IFERROR function. However, when I EXPORT to XLS, all the cells that used the IFERROR function were replaced by the literal value of the cell. My IFERROR formulae were not EXPORTED as I had expected.
I note that some formulae were converted correctly in my EXPORTED spreadsheet: eg MAX, MIN, AVERAGE.
I understand that IFERROR was a function introduced recently to Excel, ie in the 2007 version. Consequently, I suspect that Numbers exports to a pre-2007 version of Excel. If so, which version?
I have found this list that shows which functions are compatable amongst various versions of Excel:
Excel Functions: Compatibility Reference (2010, 2007 & 2003). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsHau4_IeCfwdG45c0VhcjBBUGNreVo2ZzN NRU1BT0E#gid=0
This list shows that, for instance, IFERROR exisits inb both Excel 2007 and Numbers-09. So why is IFERROR not exported?
Curmi, J. (n.d.). Summary of function in excel and numbers-09. Retrieved from http://curmi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/functions-in-excel-and-numbers- 09.pdf
Some examples of my use of ISERROR in Numbers are as follows:
=IFERROR(RANK(C47,$C47:$J47,1),"")
=IFERROR(MEDIAN(C51:C58),"")
=IFERROR($C32-C88+1,"")
I use the above function to carry out the calculation ONLY IF a cell is non-blank and contains a number.
More questions
What are the rules that Numbers uses to convert to Excel?
Is Numbers converting to the 2003 version of Excel? ... or an earlier version? ... which version?
Why desn't Numbers advise me there were conversion errors or simplifications made?
eg: "Cell A33 Function IFERROR was exported to the cell value for Excel"
Is there a preference that I can select which version of Excel that Numbers will export to?
In the meantime, I must abandon Numbers and use NeoOffice!

Thanks,
I applied your suggested ISERROR transformation to examples such as:
=IFERROR(RANK(C47,$C47:$J47,1),"")
=IFERROR(MEDIAN(C51:C58),"")
=IFERROR($C32-C88+1,"")
However, a caution for young players....
Certainly, the ISERROR function exports to .xls. However, it behaves differently in NeoOffice.
Items 1 and 2 function identically in the case of say, ranking a row in which some cells are blanks.
Item 3, when translated using ISERROR to =IF(ISERROR(C32-C88+1),"", C32-C88+1), results in "" (ie error is raised) in Numbers but yields figure 0 in NeoOffice when there is a blank in either of the cells.
I recall from programming school in the mid-1970s that using GOTO statements and On Error branch statements were not admissible as routine programming steps. In fact, we received an automatic fail grade if we used a GOTO or GOTO like construction. So, I have found a more programmatically elegant way to solve my problem: eg:
=IF(C88="","",C32-C88+1)
Curiously, earlier I found/suspect this does not work equivalently in Numbers and NeoOffice:
=IF(ISBLANK(C88),"",C32-C88+1)
When you try using ISBLANK you always get an intuitively unexpected result because ISBLANK ONLY gives TRUE when there is absolutely nothing in a cell. A Formula reference in the cell, even if the function result yields "", gives FALSE... because, according to the definition of ISBLANK the cell contains a formula.
As I tell my students, ALWAYS lookup the HELP on any function you use. ALWAYS test the function to see how it performs!.... and lesson 3: Always test your spreadsheet on different systems.... then hope!
FYI:
Here's a link to my Spreadsheet (Neoffice .xls) and a video explaining its use.
Team Contribution: Introduction (Prototype). (2013). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj87FGLoplk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I don't guaranteee this link for ever! ... and I continue to "tweak" it
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1jz7gzksejnbqo1/Team%20Contribution.xls

Purge Data #error when UserResponse and ToDate function is used in same formula

Hi,
I have a formula which works well when there is data but when I purge the webi report I get #Error for the cells wherever I have used UserResponse and ToDate function in the same formula.
Ex: =FormatDate(ToDate(UserResponse("Enter Modified Date:");"M/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a");"MM/dd/yyyy")
I tired in multiple reports. I get the same error in all reports when i purge the data but when i unpurge and show the reports with data, I won't get any error.
Is this known issue? If anyone knows the solution. Please answer it.
(FYI, I am using BO4.0 SP5)
Thanks.

Thanks a lot for all your efforts in trying to find the solution to my question but the formula that you had has a error, as you were using commas instead of semicolon. If you want I can change it & it's not a big deal.
By the way, I have found even better solution.
Substrings will kill the processing time and we should try to avoid string functions as much as possible. So I used IsError function instead.
=If IsError(FormatDate(ToDate(UserResponse("Enter Modified Date:");"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a");"MM/dd/yyyy")) Then "" Else FormatDate(ToDate(UserResponse("Enter Modified Date:");"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a");"MM/dd/yyyy")

Can we split data in field into 2 fields?

Have 'city, state' in 1 column, and would like to move the city to the previous column, remove the comma-space and leave the state in the original column. About 50% of the data in the column in question has this error.
Any ideas?

Yes. For this example you will put the city in one column and the state in another. The logic is that you find in the city, state field the position of the comma-space string with the function =FIND(", ",citystatecell). You combine that function with the LEFT function to return the string with the characters in the citystatecell up to the comma. =LEFT(citystatecell,FIND(", ",citystatecell)-1).
If Memphis, TN is the value being evaluated, Find will return 8, the position of the comma- subtract one to get the end of the city string. The LEFT and FIND combo will return the first 7 characters of the string- Memphis. The state can be extracted with similar logic.
If there is no comma-space, the FIND will error. To trap that you check for an error with the ISERROR function and IF function. If it is an error, then it must be a city without state, so return the string being evaluated.
Here is the formula I came up with for the city portion
IF(ISERROR(FIND(", ",citystate)),citystate,LEFT(citystate,(FIND(", ",citystate)-1)))
and the state portion will leave the state cell blank-
=IF(ISERROR(FIND(", ",citystate)),"",RIGHT(citystate,(LEN(citystate)-(FIND(", ",citystate)+1))))
The state formula does not assume the state is a 2 letter abbreviation.
HTH
Craig Sutherland

Hiding the #error message from a member column

Hey guys,
The issue is mainly the member formula column showing the basic #error message in the cell upon intentionally messing with the values. It's pretty natural, but I'm looking to hide that error message, though I forgot how. I'm sure it's pretty simple.
I'm using Hyperion 11.1.2.1.0.83
Thanks again!
Edited by: 922290 on 20-Mar-2012 22:40
Edited by: 922290 on 20-Mar-2012 22:51

You could have a look at the following post to get some ideas, it is not exactly the same issue but may help Re: #error in formula row of the form sum([1])/2
There is also the IsError function, more info at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hp_admin/apcs03s09.html
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

64 bit ATM deluxe actually works, you just can't install

I actually could hardly believe it. Is Adobe Really that lazy that they can't just repackage the installer so it will work on a 64bit version of windows? Well, it seems so.
I went to my coworkers computer, who has the same version of the software as me, and simply copied the whole folder from his computer to the (x86) program files folder.
When I tried to run it, the software gave me an error that there was no database in windows, but it let me create one. Everything worked fine.
I added our company font set, and they are working fine in Photoshop and Illustrator. I didn't check AE, Encore, or Premier, but I assume those are fine as well.
So it looks like all you have to do is install it on another 32bit computer, and just copy the files over. Someone should test that on Vista too. I hear it doesn't work in Vista? Just make sure if you install it somewhere else Just to copy it to the licensed version, you uninstall it on that computer after you are finished copying it.
Hopefully Adobe will get their act together and start making these things compatible with an OS they Claim to be obsolete. 80,000 people are at our company and it looks like everyone who uses Photoshop will be converting to XP64 within the next 9 months. Hmm, obsolete? I think they fail to realize that large corporations don't use the newest software, not that their software is Really that compatible with Vista either. lol
Hope this post helped some of you guys. I'm still laughing inside that something so simple worked.

To understand why ATM is no longer supported, you need to understand the history of the product and its original purpose going back to 1989 and the
Font Wars between Adobe on one side, with its Type 1 font technology from PostScript, and a coalition of Apple and Microsoft on the other side with their TrueType font technology developed by Apple but liberally "borrowed" from Imagen, a laser printer company from the 1980s.
The first version of ATM for Macintosh was released in December 1989 strictly to allow host-based copies of Type 1 fonts to be rendered "on-the-fly" for the screen as opposed to the user having to install bitmap versions of such fonts tuned to a particular screen resolution and point size. The Windows version followed within a year or so. Effectively, ATM blunted an attempt by both Apple and Microsoft to put Adobe out of business by locking Type 1 fonts out of the desktop. ATM allowed use of fully-scalable Type 1 technology on both Macintosh and Windows before TrueType was actually available for either Macintosh or Windows. This unholy alliance of Apple and Microsoft also pushed a Microsoft-provided clone of PostScript, TrueImage, licensed from Cal Bauer (that's a separate story but needless to say, that CloneScript was really poor and failed very quickly; Apple came running back to Adobe for Adobe PostScript for their new LaserWriters without ever actually releasing a product based on Microsoft's TrueImage).
Subsequently, Adobe released its Multiple Master variant of Type 1 fonts that provided the facility to vary weights, widths, and other aspects of fonts, generating custom "instances" of fonts to better match the designer's needs. ATM was used to control the building and installation of Multiple Master instances.
Over the years, two additional functions were added to ATM. The more recent was support for OpenType CFF fonts (i.e., OpenType fonts with Type 1 outlines) and in the "Deluxe" version of ATM, a very rudimentary font manager.
Over the years, i.e. by the time Windows 2000 and MacOS X shipped, there original raison d'etre for ATM was gone given that beginning with these OS versions, Type 1 and OpenType CFF font support was now native within the operating system based on Apple and Microsoft individually integrating Adobe code into the operating system. The only purpose left for ATM under Windows 2000 and Windows XP was to support creation and installation of Multiple Master font instances. Given that Adobe stopped developing new Multiple Master fonts back in the late 1990s and shortly thereafter stopped licensing them, the need for Multiple Master support outside of Adobe's applications themselves (which still support existing Multiple Master instances, either those primary instances delivered with the fonts or user-created instances) diminished to next to nothing.
The only function left to ATM was that of
font management, historically the weakest aspect of ATM Deluxe.
Adobe then had to make a decision in terms of the future of ATM. The bottom line was that given the relatively weak font management capabilities of ATM Deluxe - it provided no auto-activation, was based on very ancient code that was incompatible with new OS versions, and was fairly incompatible with Adobe's new applications, Adobe had to measure the cost of developing, marketing, and supporting an advanced, new generation font management program competitive with other products already out in the marketplace performing similar functions. Simply stated, the decision made at the time was that (a) given the cost of developing, marketing, and supporting a new, industrial strength font manager, (b) given existing reasonable quality font managers available from third parties that seemed to meet the market's need, and (c) given what users were actually willing to pay for such software, it was not worth Adobe making the necessary investment to create a "next generation" ATM.
Could that decision be re-evaluated some day? Maybe although it is unlikely that such a re-evaluation will yield a different decision! But for the time being, Adobe Type Manager is a product that is no longer marketed or supported.
Can you coerce ATM Lite or ATM Deluxe to install on 32-bit Windows Vista? Probably. Will it run on Vista? Possibly although we have heard mixed reports and Adobe won't support you if you mess up your system trying to use it. 64-bit Windows (both XP and Vista) is a different story. The ATM installer is a 16-bit program that simply won't run on these 64-bit systems (same is true with the old
Adobe Universal PostScript Printer Driver Installer). Can the ATM code itself run - Andy Engelkemier claims it does, but don't count on it properly interfacing with Adobe Creative Suite applications properly or respecting the multiple user environment. Given that other fairly competent font manager software is readily available at reasonable cost, you should carefully evaluate the value of your time continuing to run an ancient, unsupported, low functionality font manager with no future versus migrating to products are still being developed and supported by their developers.
- Dov

Error when running Dashboard with BPC 10 Connection

Hello Experts,
I am trying to preview my created Dashboard with BPC 10 Connection. Upon clicking Preview I encountered an "UnSupported Excel Function" error.
When I clicked OK and tried to refresh my report, another error came up:
Have you encountered these errors before?
Thanks!
Regards,
Joana

Hi Joana,
Please refer knowledge base article 1741089 - Dashboard design error message: Unsupported Excel function EPMOlapMember - which says the same:
Cause
This is normal product behavior. Only native Excel functions which are
supported by Xcelsius should be used for generating the dashboard.
The embedded spreadsheet does not support all Excel functions. It does not
support macros, conditional formatting, linking to other external spreadsheets,
and some formula functions.
Resolution
Use only functions that are supported by Dashboard Design (Xcelsius).
For a full list of supported functions, see the section Supported Excel
functions in the Dashboards and Presentation Design User Guide available form http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir4/en/xi4_dashD_user_en.pdf.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Kalyan.

Doesn't NVL work with Assosiative array elements

Doesn't NVL work with Assosiative arrays? When i tried to UPDATE empdtls table with the values stored
in v_ename array, i got no_data_found error because
the query, select ename bulk collect into v_ename.....returns only 5 rows and v_ename(6) was null. So i tried NVL and COALESCE for v_ename(6). I couldn't succeed.
Any workarounds?
create table empdtls
(ename1 varchar2(30),
ename2 varchar2(30),
ename3 varchar2(30),
ename4 varchar2(30),
ename5 varchar2(30),
ename6 varchar2(30),
location varchar2(30));
SQL> insert into empdtls(location) values ('NY');
1 row created.
SQL> commit;
declare
type ename_arraytyp is table of varchar2(100) index by binary_integer;
v_ename ename_arraytyp;
begin
select ename bulk collect into v_ename from emp where sal>2900;
dbms_output.put_line(v_ename(1));
dbms_output.put_line(v_ename(2));
dbms_output.put_line(v_ename(3));
update empdtls
           set ename1=v_ename(1),
               ename2=v_ename(2),
               ename3=v_ename(3),
               ename4=v_ename(4),
               ename5=v_ename(5),
               ename6=NVL(v_ename(6),'No Name')
           where location='NY';
commit;
end;
declare
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01403: no data found
ORA-06512: at line 9Message was edited by:
J.Kiechle

If you used a schema level collection type (i.e. created with CREATE TYPE) you could also use the unsupported SYS_OP_CEG function which appears to return collection elements for given index values without error if the element does not exist.
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE varchar2_table
2 AS
3     TABLE OF VARCHAR2 (4000);
4 /
Type created.
SQL> DECLARE
2     v_ename varchar2_table;
3 BEGIN
4     SELECT ename
5     BULK COLLECT INTO v_ename
6     FROM   emp
7     WHERE sal > 2900;
8
9     UPDATE empdtls
10        SET ename1 = sys_op_ceg (v_ename, 1),
11            ename2 = sys_op_ceg (v_ename, 2),
12            ename3 = sys_op_ceg (v_ename, 3),
13            ename4 = sys_op_ceg (v_ename, 4),
14            ename5 = sys_op_ceg (v_ename, 5),
15            ename6 = sys_op_ceg (v_ename, 6)
16      WHERE location = 'NY';
17 END;
18 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>

Unsupported ISERROR function

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for