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steve_bickerton · 09-20-2016

Hi All, As a seasoned BI professional, I am often asked: How does SAP BusinessObjects compete with some of the newer niche vendors in the marketplace?Scalability and Enterprise ScaleFirst and foremost, scalability comes to mind. SAP BusinessObject...

steve_bickerton · 05-21-2015

Hi All,After upgrading to BI 4.1, be sure to update your SAP BI product version information on Service Market Place (SMP).This ensures that SAP assigns the right engineer to any tickets you might open and is also used by SAP to see who has moved to B...

steve_bickerton · 10-20-2009

I want to create a non mandatory predefined condition in the universe where only the last 31 days are returned. I would like to do this in the MDX editor in universe (released in XI 3.1) and not in the BEx query. There isn't much in the MDX editor th...

steve_bickerton · 08-31-2009

Hi,Has any one established BOE XI 3.1 connectivity, on Unix, to a Neoview database? I am able to ping the Neoview server from unix, but webi returns the following error: A database error occured. The database erorr test is: [HP][HP ODBC Driver] DATA ...

steve_bickerton · 04-14-2009

Hi,There is a hierarchy in BW that a BEx query can access. In BEx, If I right click on the Row (G/L) and go to properties I can see the Hierachy Name it is the row is associated with to. When natively run in BEx the hierarchy appears.But when I i...

steve_bickerton · 09-22-2022

I'd also do some basic troubleshooting so you are comparing apples to apples:a) remove any widget filtersb) remove any story filters or selectors.If you can't do this (eg don't want to impact a finished story), just create a new story. Second thing ...

steve_bickerton · 09-22-2022

Hi, it should do the filtering in context. In the example below, I have two dimensions, Generation, and Leadership, on the y axis of a bar chart, and a table set up beside it. the goal is to pass the filter/selection from the chart to the table. ...

steve_bickerton · 09-22-2022

One follow up: you can't edit the custom sort unless you are in edit mode.

steve_bickerton · 09-22-2022

This is how the behaviour works. If you create a custom sort in SAC (typically Sort-->dimension--> custom order), it will allow you to re-use in other charts. For example, I created two custom sorts on generation in chart 1: the one being used has ...

steve_bickerton · 08-24-2022

You could simply copy the table/widget to the new tab and format as needed.

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Creating a Query Filter with the MDX editor

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Bringing a BW hierarchy into BEx and the Universe

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