Webi on top of Bex query, maximum of fields 50 limit

Hi there,
I'm creating the Webi Report on top the Bex Query that has 50 characteristics in the row area and around 10 characteristics in Free Characteristics area. (Bex query can't have more than 50 in the Row Area)
When I create the WEbi report, it limits the output to the same 50 characteristics, it means that even though I have 10 more characteristics available from the Free Characteristics Area and I can't add them to the Webi Report.
I'm new to Webi and I didn't know about this limitation of number of fields can be added. Is there a workaround for this case?
Is 50 fields really a limit for Webi Report or am I doing something wrong here?
Thanks!

Hi,
Much like BEx, with WebI it is recommended to not have more than 50 dimensions selected into a single OLAP query, otherwise performance will degrade.
I have customer who try to put 80-200 objects into webi query panel and get angry when they can't...
However, this is a silly thing to do. For example, how many people can read tables with 80 columns?
It usually mean that the business requirements aren't being focused enough, and that reports are trying to answer too many flexible u2018ad hocu2019 purposes.
To conclude, it's an u201Cirrelevant testu201D because WebI isnu2019t a u2018data dumpu2019 tool. you should perhaps use a genuine ETL to extract records for hundreds of objects
Regards,
H

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