I Have A Name Field (last, First, title) I Need to Break Into Separate Variables
I have a Webi report with a variable passed from the universe as NAME where the name is the person's last then comma then first and comma and title (i.e. Smith, John, Mr.) I want to create three...
View ArticleColumns dropping during download
We have a report that was migrated from XI 3.1 to BI 4 SP5 patch 2 When the report runs in webi, all of the columns are being displayed just fine. But when the report is downloaded to excel, some...
View ArticleComparing periods
I'm trying to compare two periods(9/30 vs. 6/30) data and I'm trying to find out the best way to set this up. Should I build two queries for the two different dates? I'm new to webi so if you need...
View ArticleRemoving certain drill filters
Hie guys, I am trying to remove certain drill filters from a report, but the "Clear All Values" at the bottom of the drill filter is missing, so I cannot remove a particular drill filter. Can you tell...
View Article4.1 SP1P1 BI LaunchPad responsiveness
We recently upgraded to 4.1 SP1P1 and now are facing some performance issues - mainly in the BI LaunchPad WEBI app. After pulling in data through BICS, it takes around 10secs to submit text into a...
View Articlewebi vs sql - results inconsistent
Webi 4.o Build 797 - I have a report that when I take the webi generated sql and run it via microsoft management studio against the same data source the webi report is using I get more results than I...
View ArticleExporting one tab in the report to excel
I have a query summary tab on my report file that I export and email out in excel format. How do I export and email without this query summary tab?
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Conditional Format Not Working
Hi, I have a problem with conditional formatting. For example, I have a table that measures volume based on priority vs months reported. The threshholds for P3 and P4 Volume are based on a rolling...
View ArticleExport to PDF
Hi, When a WebI report that has a Chart and Grid is exported to PDF, the size of X axis values ,Y axis values and the legend and the Grid values becomes very small and the font color also becomes very...
View ArticleWebi report Schedule failed after promoting report from Dev to Prod
Hi, I am using SAP BO 4.0 SP6. When i promote WEBI report from Dev to Prod environment report schedule gets failed on Prodwhen i looked into WEBI Report properties my observation is my CUID on both...
View ArticleThe Query cannot run because it contains incompatible object, See your...
Hi, I have the above error when i am using the object in BO report. I have enabled both the options Multiple SQL statements for each context & Multiple SQL statements for each Measures in Universe...
View ArticleDatabase error: 523 80
Hi All, I restarted our BusinessObjects BI 4.0 SP5 server on Linux and now, when I try to refresh my reports in BI Launch Pad, I get a "Database error: 523 80". Can anyone help? Thanks in advance and...
View ArticleText display on each page while printing
Hi, I am using BO XI R 3. I have to add one text to the top and bottom of the tabs in the report and if someone prints the document it should show on each page. Can anyone please tell me how to...
View ArticleDate/ Time Object Changes to Text Value when exporting to Excel
Hi All, I have a BO 4.0 Report , which has a Date Column.It has Data in the format dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss (eg : "26/11/2013 12:01:01"). When i export the report to Excel and When i Right Click on Format...
View ArticleQuery with complex expressions in GROUP BY clause giving error
Hi All, I am getting below mentioned error in my webI report. The universe does not allow complex expressions in a GROUP BYstatement. (IES 00010)Please let me know if any setting needs to be...
View ArticleDynamic Images from Server Location?
I'm working on converting a DeskI report that uses dynamic TIF images stored on a local server location. I know we need to convert the images to GIF or JPEG for WebI to use them but I'm also trying to...
View ArticleCommunication between SAP BW, HANA and BO
Hi, When it comes to development what will be the flow of SAP BW, BO and HANA combination in development? i was told that we can use HANA to built a data model using HANA studio and also HANA acts a...
View ArticleConditional Scheduling
Hi gurus, I wonder if there is an option on WebI that run schedules on particular occasion example giving if one columns value is below one value(when/if sales amount is less than 230000, let system...
View ArticleMeasure giving incorrect values
Hie Guys, I have created a combined report from 2 universes. I merged all the common dimensions. I used the below formula for the combined measure object - If (IsNull (Measure from Universe 1) Then...
View ArticleBest Approch to develop webi without well designed universe
Hi All, We have some old Acutate reports with free hand SQL and want to migrate to webi . All the underlying SQL for each report is ready .We dont have time to design universe . Please guide me for...
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