Upgrade Workbooks & Queries

Question

Hi!
We are currently in the middle of upgrading to NW2004s from 3.5. So far, we have completed a test upgrade on the development system.
When opening workbooks, we can see that the query and workbook objects being upgraded “on the fly”, which decrease performance. To avoid this we have to resave the workbook, in order to convert all objects.
So my questions are:
1) Does anyone know if it.s both the workbook and the query that has to be resaved?
2) Which “upgrade strategy” has been used when it comes to migrating workbook and queries?
To let the end-users access via the 3.5 add-ins to start with
*To resave all the queries and/or workbooks after been upgraded
To let the end-user resave when appropriate
Or any other methods?
Thanks in advance!
Bjørn

Answer 1

Hello,
  I thought I would share our experience with workbook conversion issues so far. We are upgrading the toolset after having done the technical upgrade, implemented new analysis authorizations, and implemented support packs up to 12. 
In our area we have a set of reports (workbooks)that are formatted to a very high degree, using Excel more than the BEx (3.5) settings, although we have both. Some examples are 1) in general the column widths and texts have to remain static to retain the proportions of the report and for printing, and 2) we redid BEx Exception cell formatting with Excel Conditional cell formatting since the users wanted blue as a condition (this is what we did, maybe there is a better way...), 3) graphs, print settings etc. 
In order to make some of these settings in 3.5 we had to turn off the query property "adjust format after refresh".  I believe the same setting in 7.0 is "Adjust formatting" checkbox on the Analysis Grid properties.  Another setting we used extesively in 3.5 was the query setting "adjust column width on refresh - set to "do not adjust".  In 7.0 the equivalent is also on the Analysis grid properties "Auto Fit". 
My thought right now is that the "Adjust formatting" is not carrying over during the upgrade process, in other words turning off "adjust format after refresh" seems to convert to having the " Adjust formatting" checkbox checked, which wipes out everything after refresh, including the standard BEx format.  I have come up with a way to manually convert them, but ultimately involves a fair amount of rework.  Many of our other users create workbooks and queries in an adhoc process, so we are communicating to them that they will need to go through this process, and there may be rework.  We are finding the 3.5 vs. 7.0 workbook creation process to be significantly different which was unexpected for us at least. 
Hope that experience might be helpful, we are still working on it ourselves.