Web Layouts in SEM-BPS

Hi all,
I have the following question related to web layouts in sem-bps (non excel):
- I have several web layouts to enter data, but we have now user requirements related to copy, paste informations cells (manually) from and to EXCEL. The problem is that, using a simple alv layout this operation can't be done.
I've already searched possible ways to overcome this limitation, with no success (layout settings, by inclusion of some specific object, etc.)
Can anybody help me ?
Thanks,
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
Regards,
Ricardo

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I have a requirement to have planning by a certain structure for Profit Center and Account e.g.
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I tried to use the "Key Figures in data columns, Rows defined individually". I face two problems with this -
i) I am using a variable for the Profit Center selection but system does not allow me to put the variable in the layout. (says variable has the wrong type
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Hi Marc,
Thanks for your suggestions - However I have issues with them -
i)The profit Centers are dynamic and based on the user's selection. I cannot pre-define them with varaibles.
ii)I assume this means to create a hierarchy. (If you use a two characteristic variable the check on "Restriction of values required by user is switched on automatically". SO you cannot use that option). Only thing is then you have to also put # in the hierarchy which is difficult to explain to the user.
iii)I wish I could put it in the header. But the user requires it a certain way. Also he wants to be able to copy and paste an Excel spreadsheet.
iv)Tried putting in a Profit Center variable and just specified the required accounts in the selection. However the accounts do not appear in the order in which I want. They are sorted by Infoobject technical name.
I tried creating the layout with a dynamic lead column (profit centers) and a predefined lead column (accounts based on predefined rows).
The output I get is interesting. I have it below -
Profit Center 1______Sales
Profit Center 2______Sales
Profit Center 3______Sales
Profit Center 1______Cost of Sales
Profit Center 2______Cost of Sales
Profit Center 1______Marginal Profit
Profit Center 2______Marginal Profit
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Dos somebody know how to find possibility of manual data change in the planning layout of SEM-BPS?
Thanks for answers.

Hello Svetlana,
When you meant "to add new (or change existing) data in a planning layout, you have to make use of the function module
API_SEMBPS_SETDATA.
The parameters what you have to pass are:
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3) Planning package
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5) Characteristic values of each row
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2) Make sure that no two rows have same keys (characteristic value tuples)
3) Make sure that all the characteristic values are contained in the planning level (Check the filters)
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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)
Thank you anyway
Regards,
Ricardo

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Hello Linda,
let me add some more remarks on this topic from the BW-BPS development perspective:
I completely agree with Marc's statement.
Thechnically it is possible to build a planning application UI on top of the BW-BPS API functions and we have some customers that are live with such a solution. However, I would recommend this only in 2 cases
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Changes are not reflected into SEM-BPS 1 layout.

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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.
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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!!).
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