october 2020.

Analysis Office 2.8 SP5 is available

Since a couple of days the latest version of Analysis for Office 2.8 is available. Michael was a little faster and notice it on Twitter before me. So let's look into it. SAP fixes a bunch of bugs with this service pack. Here is an overview:

 

  • AO 4 SAC: \"Group Members\" functionality not available when using BW Live Data Connections (s-note 2962476)
  • AO: BEx Workbook Conversion - An exception occurs when trying to save a converted BEx workbook which contains formulas (s-note 2965890)
  • Action has been cancelled due to invalid input values (s-note 2958731)
  • Analysis for office responds slow in AO 2.8 (s-note 2966651)
  • BIP Logon Issues (s-note 2976169)
  • BIP OLAP Connection targeting another system (s-note 2972912)
  • BIP Workbook fails to save back to the platform (s-note 2963966)
  • Error [3291-74de-1b] when using Excel with Traditional Chinese or ClientLanguage is set to \"ZF\" (s-note 2967800)
  • Exception when the Number of NewLines is set to 0 (s-note 2961082)
  • Exception when using an embedded sheet in Word (s-note 2966861)
  • Filter Dialog - Change state of Tree Node if its text was clicked (s-note 2938903)
  • Input has invalid format error when using exponential / scientific notation in new lines (s-note 2971200)
  • Insecure Connection Message with BIP OLAP (s-note 2967910)
  • New Lines - F4 help does not display member of respective cell (s-note 2963872)
  • Refresh All button is disabled for AO workbook (s-note 2969805)
  • Refresh Workbook with BIP OLAP SSO Connection Fails in Analysis Office (s-note 2957833)
  • SAC Logon Error in Analysis Office - No connection to system INA_SAC (s-note 2964461)
  • SAP Formulas in Scheduled Workbooks are Displayed as #NAME? in Excel (s-note 2765716)
  • Saving a workbook results in a nested exception [e525-fb53-d4] (s-note 2966368)
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BW/4HANA 2.0 Agile Open ODS View Modeling

Open ODS are a long time available in SAP NetWeaver BW. You can access directly database tables, database views or BW/4HANA DataSources (for direct access). In this blog post I want to look into the fast and agile modeling with Open ODS Views. So we start with a flat file we for example received from our customer to build a new data flow for reporting. The file has the following structure:

  • Country
  • Product
  • Business Category
  • Controlling Area
  • Profit Center
  • Month
  • Year
  • Amount
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BW/4HANA 2.0 Composite Provider Modeling

I lately looked deeper into the modeling of Composite Provider in BW/4HANA 2.0 and found some difference between a BW/4HANA 1.0, BWonHANA 7.50 and the latest version BW/4HANA 2.0. So let's compare them and see what's new, and we can go deeper in further posts. We start with the context menu of the scenario for the provider.

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