What is BEX reports and workbooks and web templates

please send me in 2 lines of each,..thx

All 3 are the different forms of Result display
Bex Reports: It is based on MS excel functionalities and output is in Excel form. All reporting functionalities like swaping, exception, condition, etc..can be used.
Workbook: Bex reports can be formated as per need..say making bold, creating your own layout, adding images. In short all excel functions. This workbook gets refresed when new data loaded to datatarget
Web Template: Here charts, combos, dropdown...wtc ca be added what is called as Template.
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Pankaj

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Hi BI Team
I have a requirement to mail BEx reports or workbooks to users as excel attachment , I have tried out with Reporting agent and BEx broadcaster .My system is BW3.5.
Following option used
1) Bex broadcaster but, I dont have pre calc server so this option would not work.
2) SAP AG document which creatd by durairaj using ABAP, I am getting the excel file in my outlook box but content was in ascoii
format,
3) I creatd reporting agent with print background option but dont know where to check the output.
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YuvaraajP

Hi
Thanks for the update however, Is there any option to send mail as excell sheet without using Pre calc server.
Regards
YuvaraajP

Query or Workbook or Web Template-Process chain

Hai Friends,
I want to broadcast reports.Which type of the report is more attractive among Query or Workbook or Web Template?Suppose if we select Workbook as type,will it support for process chain which will create to automate the broadcasting process?On every data change will the workbook automatically changes it's data.Usually we will do layout settings ONLY for workbook.Will all the settings remain same when the new data is changed every month?
Please, reply me with ur valuable answers
Thanks
Mohan Chand Reddy A

Hi Mohan,
You can use either of them for broadcasting, just check the requirement with your business. And using process chain you will raise an Data change event and in your broadcast setting you will have to mark the option i.e. Broadcast on data change.
So whichever queries or workbooks have that setting on the particular Infoprovider. And once you raise the data change event for that Infoprovider through process chain, all the reports will be broadcasted.
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To get a bex report on month and cust period

hi every body,
can any one pls give me advise i have to club up both cust period(fyscal cal) and cal month in a single bex report.
what will b the best option using a ods?

Whether you use ods or cube it does not matter. But remember, fiscal period and calmonth are NOT one and the same. There can be a month or period, where they can be different. So, in your update rules, you need to derive month from period and store both calmont and fis period in the ods or cube. Try to use this FM FISCPER_FROM_CALMONTH_CALC to derive period from month.
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BEX : report with real and budget on the same line

Hi everyone,
I need to create a Bex report showing on the same line :
- budget WBS element stored in a DSO (DataSource 0CO_OM_WBS_1)
- used amount stored in another DSO (DataSource 0FI_GL_4)
Data are stored in 2 different DSOs.
If a create a multiprovided with both DSOs I will get 2 lines in my report as axes are different,no ?
Thanks for any idea.
Aussie

Hi,
You can make use of infoset.You can also do a lookup from one dso to another ant transport the values in one dso.So by doin this alll your values will be stored in one place and then you can show the values in one line in report.
Please also give me the idea of keyfields of both dso's.
You can also use constant selection in report if you are using multiprovider through this to some extenet you can solve the problem of values in coming in two lines.
Also check out the below PDF for Displaying Result Row in One Line While Reporting On Multiproviderer.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/70dcd7b5-6a3d-2d10-c984-e835e37071a2?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
Hope it helps.
Regards,
AL
Edited by: AL1112 on Aug 3, 2011 11:55 AM

Bex Report Upgrade to BO Web I or Crystal Reports

Hello Everyone,
Since SAP acquired Business Objects, probably SAP might have the solutions for upgrading the Bex Reporting into BO Web I reporting.
Could you please share some documents on the upgradation from Bex 3.x version to BO reporting.
I have gone through the Road Map of Business Objects, in that presentation Pioneer tool "provides a superset of capabilities from SAP BEx Analyzer (Excel), SAP BEx Analyzer (Web), and SAP BusinessObjects Voyager"
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b00a1a75-c49d-2b10-0ebb-ecc80ab88994 -> in page 24.
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Prashanth.

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Header and footer in Web Template output

Hi,
I have created a web template consisting of several web items like - information field, text fields, chart & analysis. With the help of VC we are exporting this web page into PDF. What my customer want is that to show some particular informatio in the footer like page number's company name and all.
Is there any option that i can do all these things from my end that is from BW end not from VC..
Any help will be appreciated.
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hi..
chk this presentation...
http://csc-studentweb.lrc.edu/swp/Berg/articles/NW2004s_what_is_new.ppt#352,3,Why NW 2004s?
http://www.sap-hefte.de/download/dateien/1090/086_leseprobe.pdf'
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Reporting Agent precalculation of web templates - ctrl query

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I have defined a RA setting for precalculating a web template with a control query (to filter results via a dropdown list, as in offline cockpit scenarios).
However, the execution of Scheduling Package gives no result, i.e no html pages are generated.
I'm pretty convinced that this behaviour is caused by the fact that the control query makes use of a characteristic structure in the rows.
Does anyone know this behaviour?
Thxs.
LauQ

Hello,
Is the process chain and web template the most active version? Are there any altered versions that have not been activated? This could cause a problem when rendering the precalculation. If that doesn't work I still recommend a mad wheelie across the parking lot on your Harley.
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Mogadesh

What is the difference between 'workbookk' and ' view'?

Hi all,
What is the difference between 'workbook' and 'view'. I check some document but I don't see there is big difference.
Thanks.
J.

hi John,
We use workbooks for excel formating,like font changes, lay out changes etc...
Workbooks into which queries are inserted are no different in appearance than other Excel workbooks.
They can be saved as files, copied, sent and (using Excel functions) edited however you like and even supplemented with other data.
Views are primarily used for BW Web Reports, it is similar to the concept of workbooks is for BEx.A local view can be accessed only within a workbook in which it was saved, where as a global view can be accessed globally in the system, it is not attached to a workbook. Only Global view can be used in BW Web Templates.
u can seee the help doc for more details:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/0d/af12403dbedd5fe10000000a155106/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/3a/89883989676778e10000000a11402f/content.htm
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sham'm

What is KPI in SAP BI and what tool do you use to design it?

Hi,
I am a currently in project that demands the design of a KPI in SAP BI.
I need some help in understanding the concept of KPI and how you design it (Using Which TOOLS? For example BEx analyzer).
And I also want to know if KPI is a form of reporting.
I await your response.
Thank you in advance.

Hi Vignesh,
BEx reporting, process chains and web reporting are all made up for KPI reporting only.
Lets take an example of some KPI Sales / Employee.
BEx Reporting - you need to make a report to show this either you can do the calculation Sales / Employee or you can go in BEx reporting for the same. Business Explorer (BEx) is to make the reports.
Process Chains - These are scheduled steps which helps us to load the data in the targets on the defined frequency. You can relate your KPI with this also, at what frequency your KPI's would be updated. Twice in a day, you get your updated KPI figures or daily or weekly depending on your process chain. Process chains are just to load your data only.
Web Reporting - This is main part for KPI's because through Web reporting only larger audience / users would be getting the values for KPIs. Everybody wont be having access to Cubes or BEx, they get the reports through web reporting only.
For any more information, you can write back to me.
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CRM factsheet and BI 7.0 Web-Templates in Federated Portal Network Scenario

Hi All,
i have some essential questions regarding a Federated Portal Network Scenario.
Our costumer works with 1 CRM-Portal (CRM 5.0, EP 7.0) and 1 BI-Portal (BI/EP 7.0).
He decided to implement a Federated Portal Network, using the CRM-Portal as the Consumer-Portal.
In the CRM-Portal we are working with the Business Package for SAP_CRM which also comprises Reports that are called from the BI.
The BI-Reports (BI 7.0 Web Templates) are now stored in the BI-Portal
How i can assign these BI-Reports (producer) into the factsheet of the CRM-Portal (consumer)?
Is that generally possible that the facsheet of the Consumer Portal (CRM) works togehther with BI 7.0 Web Templates from the Producer-Portal (BI)?
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Mustafa Darwish

It's been solved.
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Web template not visible and editable by others

Hi Guru,
I have a problem of sharing a web templated with others . In the WAD, I created a web template and saved the template. By default, it is saved in the favorite folder. However, it is not accessable or visible by another developer who needs to continue the development on this template. I have asked our SAP BW security person and she tried a few things and it didn't work. Can someone share the insights of what we should do to allow a web template created by one person to be edited by another person? Thanks in advance.

Hi,
If you provide the other person with the name of the template, he should be able to modify it. Instead of searching when opening, enter the exact name.
Hope this helps.
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Diego

Which Web Templates for printing and broadcasting

Hello,
we are running NW2004S SP10 with the Portal. We are using the web template 0AnalysisPattern and within this Web Template is a button called Send (for Broadcasting) and another called Print Version (for generating a PDF-Document which can be saved and or printed). This all works from a technical point of view good.
My question is now how I can change the layout of the PDF-File of the broadcasting PDF and also for the Print Version PDF? I do not know which Web Templates has to be changed. Could anybody please help me and give me this two Web Template names. Normally it should be possible to change within this templates the layout of the generated PDF-File, or am I wrong? I am very confused at the moment and need urgent help.
Thanks in advance for all help and
kind regards
Boris

The big answer is one you wont like, I suspect, which is that it takes TIME to get to understand the way 0ANALYSIS_PATTERN works, and then to progress to understand how to change it. That process took me several weeks, I started by documenting how the different parts work, I can let you have this document if you like, that will save you about a week.
Moving on from that, specifically you need to understand how to access the EXPORT command from the Exel and PDF buttons, then you can see the Web TEmplate that is used to control the output. You know, I could tell you in detail (and if you search SDN you will find more detailed answers to your question) but there really is no short cut to understanding how it all works.
Good luck!
Patrick

Bex iView does not show changes made in web templates

Hello,
I have a Bex iView that presents a web template which is exposed in two portals.
I made a certain change in the web template in portal A and I can see the change through the Bex iView in this portal.
I than transfered the change to portal B and I can see this change at the Web application designer's code when it is connected to portal B.
The problem is that I can't see the change through the Bex iView in portal B, it keeps presenting the old version of the web template. Also, if I preview it from WAD, which opens it in the portal, it shows the old version as well.
<b>I've already tried/verified the following:</b>
1. It's not a client related issue as it happens to all clients.
2. I have tried clearing both the client and the portal's pcd caches.
3. No cache whatsoever is configured in this iView's properties (Cache Level: None, Cache Validity Period: 0,0,0,-1, Allow Client-Side Caching: No).
4. When I run the iView in debug mode in the application integrator I can't see anything unusual I can think of. Also, I can see there that it points to the correct web template.
5. Retransported the web template from server A to server B.
What else can be done here? Any ideas...?

Hello,
did you resolve your problem ?
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Bex Report / Multi Providers

Hello to all experts and BW users,
I have question regarding advanced Bex reports. Is it possible to have one Bex report (Excel Workbook, with different sheets) using more than one multi providers or info cubes?
The reason for this question is simply that I would like to combine several KPI reports in one Summary KPI report for our MB. (Without creating a Master multi provider on top of the current multi providers)
Many thanks in advance friends!
Boyke

Hi Boyke,
Open a query in BEx and then click anywhere in the blank area of the Excel sheet(same or different) where you would like to add the other KPI report. Then select the Menu option as described below.
You can use the "Insert Query" option in the Tools button available in BEx to combine two or more queries in a single workbook.
When you select this option it will give you a list of all existing queries in the BW system select the one you wish to add.
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