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Yeah finally is Analysis Office 2.8 available. It took a long time. Here is a overview what's new.

• In the prompt dialog you can clear all values
• In the prompt dialog you can insert easily ranges with "value" "space" "minus" "space" "value" e.g. 2018 - 2019
• You can display Dimension Groups in the Query.
• The used dimensions are highlighted in the design panel
• You can easily select the access mode in the property view
• Variants in the prompt dialog are now in alphabetical order
• You can easily get the admin or user guide by pressing F1 in the ribbon menu or the help on this function in the insert function dialog. The sam works for the customize user interface and the technical configuration.

This are some sweet features even not everything is running smoothly.

Since last week the latest version of Analysis Office is available. I installed it right away and want to test it. And what I have to see? You cann't add hierarchies into the rows or columns of your crosstab. I tried to record it maybe you can see it in the video below.

This week I discussed with a colleague. He ask if there is any way to filter multiple entries in a hierarchy because there is no Paste or Upload function in the hierarchy filter dialog.

The Analysis Office Workbook saves a lot of information in it. The Microsoft Excel format xlsx is a container which can save a lot of other information besides the normal data. When you rename a xlsx file to a zip file you can extract it with for example 7-Zip. Now you see the following folder structure.

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The latest version of Analysis Office is now available. It was released on 27.09.2019 and after the go live of my project is now done, I may have time to look more into Analysis Office again. 

•  AO Prompt Selection makes Excel.exe freeze (s-note 2836430)
• Analysis Office: Red borders around valid new line cells (s-note 2831840)
• Exception when opening or saving a workbook or data source after Log Off (s-note 2838591)
• RRI passes wrong context for axis tuple element (s-note 2834404)
• SAPSetFilterComponent and Time Characteristics (s-note 2829371)

As you can see in this version there is not many things fixed or maybe they found not more? But the What's new Guide lists some new file system settings (technical parameter)

• ForceWriteOlapConnectionInformationDuringWorkbookSave 
• UseDocumentDescriptionToConstructBIDocumentFileName
• UseDocumentDescriptionToConstructBWDocumentFileName
• SacHttpSessionPingInterval
• SearchFetchMemberLimit
• AllowOverwritingOfDimensionNames
• AllowOverwritingOfStructureMemberNames
• ReverseVariableProcessingOrderForHanaFromOldxml
• UseKeyForHierarchySelection
• UseQueryVariantsForViews

The admin guide now documented now all these parameters. A nice parameter is UseKeyForHierarchySelection, which allows you to define if you want to see the keys of a hierarchy in the first coloumn or second column of your prompt.

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It's a kind of summer break at the moment and I haven't done a lot for this blog in the last time. But SAP now release the 7th service pack of Analysis Office. 

You can now use the filtering data access mode with SAP Analytics Cloud data sources, analytic and planning models. There are also 3 new file system settings:

• ShowCutCopyPasteInGridContextMenu
• EnableImprovedAddInCompatibility
• UseSeparateDisplaySettingsForFilterDialog

The setting ShowCutCopyPasteInGridContextMenu allows you to sepcify whether the cut, copy and paste entries should be available in the context menu for a crosstab cell. The setting EnableImprovedAddInCompatibility should improve the compatibility with other Microsoft Office add-ins. How this work we will see.

The setting UseSeparateDisplaySettingsForFilterDialog you can define if the display settings defined in the filter dialog should be saved with the workbook.

So as you can see nothing spectecularit fixes also a little bit:

• ALL: Current View Edition mode when a member start with the same characters that another member (s-note 2811124)
• ALL: during a customized drill through Excel remains frozen (s-note 2813223)
• ALL: last selection not saved when set to Base Level (s-note 2811297)
• AO 2.7 SP6: Office 2010 - Can't open AO workbooks via launcher (s-note 2814329)
• Analysis Office Performance Issue when Refreshing Workbooks with Many Format (Design) Rules (s-note 2813968)
• ALL:Report options are truncated (s-note 2814791)

 I am still looking for Analysis Office 2.8, but now I am first enyoing my vacation.

In our current project we had to deal with the requirement that the enduser only want to show a certain node of a hierarchy to filter. So we used the F4 restriction from the transaction spro. You find the entry under Business Warehouse >> Enhancements >> BAdI: Restricting the Value Help in the Variables Screen. We implemented it in the method GET_RESTRICTION_NODE.

At this time I had only experience with the method GET_RESTRICTION_FLAT and searched for implementation examples. I found a wiki entry on scn. In our case we had bookable nodes so we implemented it like this to get these node and all children of it.

l_s_node-nodename = 'NODE1'.

l_s_node-niobnjm      = 'ZZ_IO'.

Append l_s_node to c_t_node.

But it didn't work out. The debugging showed no error, but the restriction always showed the complete hierarchy. After a little digging we found our mistake, it have to look like the follwing:

l_s_node-nodename = 'LEAF1'.

Append l_s_node to c_t_node.

l_s_node-nodename = 'LEAF2'.

Append l_s_node to c_t_node.

And so on for all leafs. So we had to add all leafs and not the nodes. I didn't found any good explanation so here is the short article about it. Thanks to my collegue who had the problem.

It has been a quite while since the last post. But with a go live and a reorganization of my current project I hadn't time to look into some topic. But here is a new kind of interessting bug. We had an open task from a user of the controlling department, that a query display the message:

"Size Limit of result set exceeded."

That's an odd thing, because the query has only six columns and 110 rows and when the user dragged the calendar month into the columns it should have 12 columns for the actual year and 110 rows. Which is defintily lower than the limit of Analysis Office, which is 500.000 cells.

Since 24.05.2019 the latest service pack of Analysis Office is available. At the moment I am working on a test tool to automate testing in BW so I can easy check if any change of mappings and so on has an impact on my ADSO or query result. But I found time to install it. A "bug" what I found was when I want to insert a data source from the recent list, nothing happend. The solution was to reinstall Analysis Office and now it works. Here is the list of bug fixes:

• Analysis Office: Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC when trying to save a protected workbook (s-note 2781162)
• Launcher error when launching from BIP (s-note 2781090)
• Warning message about comments without using comments (s-note 2780925)
• ALL: Locked cells can be edited when Excel grouping/ungrouping is allowed (s-note 2784832)
• ALL: Refresh may be incorrect in some cases (s-note 2786604)
• ALL: Refresh metadata fails when a workbook was closed before (s-note 2786615)
• AO: End-User-Defined Characters on Prompts (s-note 2781131)
• AO: Mouse actions don't work in wbs with brackets in their name (s-note 2782332)
• All crosstabs are deleted after clicking on cell after editing (s-note 2791886)
• Analysis Office: After execution of planning sequence or applying filter new lines contain data of the result set (s-note 2789464)
• Analysis Office: Exception when closing workbook (s-note 2788026)
• Analysis Office: Grouping of crosstabs containing characteristics with different names but same descriptions (s-note 2784694)
• Analysis Office: erroneously new lines are displayed after executing a planning sequence (s-note 2785251)
• New Lines - Value Help does not return selected value (s-note 2780363)
• Refresh Data fails if additional Workbook appears during opening and one is cleaned (s-note 2790594)
• Scheduled Workbooks Get Corrupted and Issues with Special Named Ranges and Sheet Names (s-note 2784545)

Did anyone have the same bug with the Insert DataSource function?

Here just a short notice if somebody doesn't know it yet. If you have a false information in a data record you can fix this manually either in a PSA or (A)DSO. Just select the desired entry and click Display (F7).

It has been very quite at the moment.Because nothing spectecular is happening in the Analysis Office world. SAP released Analysis Office 2.7 SP5. I still hope they get Analysis Office 2.8 back on track and without so much problems as they have today.  But back to topic.

Recently I had the opporunity to work with SAP HANA Table Functions. First I had a complex SAP HANA Calculation View with Joins, Aggregations and so on. But I read a blog post on the SCN by Konrad Załęski and thought maybe I can use Table Functions to do the same as I do with my Calculation Views.

I use Eclipse 2018-09 (4.9.0) and the BW Modeling Tools 1.19.35 so maybe the options are not at the same position in another version. As far as I know SAP, the buttons are definitly not at the same position anymore. 🙈

To reduce the complexity I used three calculation views to narrow down my problem step by step.

Since last week SAP published the latest version of Analysis Office 2.7 SP5. I don't know if any other version ever had a service pack so high like the actual version. At this time SAP doesn't offer the newst help file under help.sap.com/boaa. So stay tuned if there is something happening. Here is an overview about what they fixed:

• ALL: Context Hide and Context Lock issues (s-note 2768898)
• Workbook is corrupted if contained charts are filtered (s-note 2767246)
• Errors with SAPSelectMember formula and sheet protection (s-note 2765798)
• SAP Formulas in Scheduled Workbooks are Displayed as #NAME? in Excel (s-note 2765716)
• Analysis Office: Exception when a workbook contains combined crosstabs where the master crosstab has no data available (s-note 2765191)
• BPCNW: HTTP 404 Error when Prompting Password Change in BPC NW 11 (s-note 2763430)
• Valus of new planning lines are not transferred, if a datasource is set to autorefresh = false (s-note 2762513)
• Analysis Office: query views not contained in a role are displayed in the role tab of the Select Data Source dialog (s-note 2762494)
• Analysis Office: router string not used for BW connections maintained on BIP (s-note 2761063)
• Analysis Office: Error 'Operation aborted due to invalid input' is displayed when no applicable data is found for the query (s-note 2760996)
• AO: Excel crashes when using shortcut CTRL+S to save workbook which have been opened from the server (s-note 2759142)
• Data is not removed if Excel Workbook is saved and closed simultaneously (s-note 2757935)
• Save Workbook cannot be performed for worksheets with Excel Sorting and which don't contain EPM Report (s-note 2756889)
• Object Id of workbook is not written to RSDDSTAT_OLAP (s-note 2755181)
• ALL: Edit report with dimensions containing non-contextual relationship (s-note 2753472)
• ALL:Issues when refreshing EPM reports in Word document (s-note 2752809)
• Analysis Office: wrong error message 'Data source xxx was not found on system yyy' is displayed (s-note 2752535)
• Prompts dialog: Variable shows green tick mark despite error messages (s-note 2752045)
• Waterfall Chart - 'Remove Data Before Saving' does not work (s-note 2751509)
• Analysis Office: Excel crashes when trying to save a local workbook using Ctrl+S shortcut (s-note 2751426)
• AO: Improved Third Party Add-In compatibility - Excel crashes when using AO and Third Party Add-Ins at the same time (s-note 2750514)
• Opening a workbook twice leads to an exception (s-note 2750223)
• AO formulas not working when refreshing via Workbook_SAP_Initialize event (s-note 2749895)
• ALL: Offline mode issue when merged cell reference (s-note 2747950)
• Saving of Workbook fails when Waterfall Chart contains no Title (s-note 2747066)
• AO 2.x: Member Selector - Searching for member keys with a backslash in it does not work (s-note 2745608)
• Improvements: performance tooling/ profiling workbook in Analysis Office (s-note 2744828)
• Analysis Office: connection to BW system fails if message server is maintained on BIP using router syntax (s-note 2744794)
• AO 2.x: Can't logon with language Basque / Euskara (EU) (s-note 2744455)
• Could not read grid properties (s-note 2744138)
• Excel hangs during workbook refresh (s-note 2743853)
• Added Support for PowerPoint Feature 'Design Ideas' (s-note 2743659)
• AO: SAC - Versions Tab not displayed when opening a saved workbook that contains a planning enabled model (s-note 2743355)
• AO 2.7: SAC - Exception when editing cell values while characteristic Versions is in Background Filters (s-note 2743351)
• ALL: Report Recognition issue (s-note 2743045)
• AO 2.x: HANA - Member Selector - Searching for a date does not return any results for characteristics of data type "DATE" (s-note 2742728)
• F4 Help on Input Ready Cells (s-note 2742723)
• Workbook is corrupted if contained charts are filtered (s-note 2741492)
• SAPGetData referencing a cell of type numeric (s-note 2741409)
• Analysis Office: calling SAPSetFilterComponent via Visual Basic throws an exception (s-note 2740920)

In my current project we have the hide a position in a hierarchy, because it is a departmental requirement. The hierarchy is used by many departments so we cannot change it and we also don't want to have the same hierarchy two times (except for the one position). So we first excluded the position in the query.

Since last week the latest SP of Analysis Office is available. You can download it here, but you need a S-User.  I know I am a little bit late but here here is the overview of what is now fixed:

• AO 2.7: SAC - Exception when editing cell values while characteristic Versions is in Background Filters (s-note 2743351)
• AO 2.x: HANA - Member Selector - Searching for a date does not return any results for characteristics of data type "DATE" (s-note 2742728)
• AO: SAC - Versions Tab not displayed when opening a saved workbook that contains a planning enabled model (s-note 2743355)
• Analysis Office: Exception when closing Excel workbook (s-note 2741439)
• Analysis Office: calling SAPSetFilterComponent via Visual Basic throws an exception (s-note 2740920)
• Analysis Office: connection to BW system fails if message server is maintained on BIP using router syntax (s-note 2744794)
• Dependent hierarchy node variables have wrong value (s-note 2745229)
• Excel hangs during workbook refresh (s-note 2743853)
• F4 Help on Input Ready Cells (s-note 2742723)
• SAPGetData referencing a cell of type numeric (s-note 2741409)
• ALL:Report recognition issue (s-note 2743045)
• AO 2.x: Can't logon with language Basque / Euskara (EU) (s-note 2744455)
• Added Support for PowerPoint Feature 'Design Ideas' (s-note 2743659)
• Could not read grid properties (s-note 2744138)
• Workbook is corrupted if contained charts are filtered (s-note 2741492)

It is as always a bugfixing Service Pack and as I mentioned in the last article, there are no new functions. I am still looking forward to Analysis Office 2.8.

It is done, the newest edtion of Analysis Office  - The Comprehensive Guide is available. It took me this time a little bit longer to update it. There are several reasons like my project workload or the the private stuff which make it sometimes difficult to write on a book and tests functions in peace without noise. You can now find it in the store and here is the table of content. It covers Analysis Office 2.7 SP3 and contains 299 Pages. It is only available as PDF but it is as always DRM free. Also is the 3rd edition now available on amazon.

Since the 21.12.2018 the latest service pack of Analysis Office 2.7 is available. I looked in the morning into the Support Portal but it wasn't released and in the afternoon Patrick wrote on Twitter, that Analysis Office 2.7 SP3 is released. I thought it wouldn't released anymore in 2018 but here are the fixed problems:

• New Options in Excel Single Workbook Publication (s-note 2729417)
• Bad Performance when switching presentations in Member Selector (s-note 2731997)
• Excel 2010 - "Not enough system resources" exception after disabling Analysis (s-note 2715429)
• Rendering issues with hierarchies when opening or saving workbooks (s-note 2730596)
• After launching document from platform some functionality of Analysis Office is not available (s-note 2725968)
• Analysis Office Scheduling Fails for Workbooks with Waterfall Charts (s-note 2731173)
• Analysis Office: Expanding or collapsing hierachical nodes not possible after entering planning data (s-note 2725060)
• Analysis for Office: empty cell is displayed instead of header text when using grouped crosstabs (s-note 2714938)
• Array Formulas are not dectected and updated (s-note 2729399)
• BW comments: document filter (s-note 2709480)
• CTRL + F4 or ALT + F4 open Value Help on Input Enabled Cell (s-note 2718143)
• Crosstab Formatting by User is discarded when Data is Removed Before Saving (s-note 2715376)
• Dynamic calculation initially not visible (s-note 2714787)
• Error caused by circular dependency with restrictions (s-note 2732084)
• Error when open workbook from BI Launchpad with local BW data source (s-note 2725798)
• Exception 0x80020005 when working with several workbooks (s-note 2714665)
• Exception when selecting measure or key figure of crosstab (s-note 2719635)
• Known Issues in Application Builder Embedded Profiles in Analysis Office (s-note 2685815)
• Missing authorization when loading comments from BI Platform (s-note 2717435)
• Recent List of Open Workbook from SAP Business Objects BI Platform shows all workbook entries as enabled (s-note 2723455)
• Ribbon controls get duplicated with Embedded profiles in Analysis Office workbooks (s-note 2717113)
• ValueHelp is shown by pressing F4 even if context is wrong (s-note 2716038)
• Workbooks are loaded from Netweaver backend although caching is active (s-note 2722138)

It is as always a bugfixing Service Pack and I don't see any new functions. If you find one, just write it to the comments. Just little notice, my book Analysis Office  - The Comprehensive Guide 4th edtion with Analysis Office 2.7 is almost ready for proofreading and so stay tuned.

In my current project I have to filter data with a lot of logic. So I build some ABAP routines in a DTP filter to receive the necessary data. First you have to open the DataTransferProcess (DTP) in change mode and select the Filter button on the Extraction tab.