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Nested Exception while refreshing the workbook from Analysis

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Hi all,

 

While trying to access the workbook in Analysis for Microsoft excel, using BW query as data source, getting an error as attached file.

 

Nested exception.See inner exception below for more details:

Unable to cast object of type 'System.NullReferenceException' to type 'bali.lang.Exception'.”

 

The version of Analysis is 1.4 and BW is 7.30. I found some threads related to same exception, but all were suggesting the notes (2060115 and 1820917 were the notes I found). And this issue is coming only for this workbook. Is it because of the query but getting the output in BEx Analyzer. Can you please suggest for this exception.

 

Thanks,

 

Best Regards,

Nachappa S

 

Attached the screenshots of error.


SAP BO Analysis for MS client SSO problem

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Dear all,

 

We are trying to configure an SSO connection for Analysis workbooks storing at BI Platform.

 

We have a situation when user opens an Analysis workbook from BI Launchpad, then window appears prompting login credentials to BW. Our goal is open Analysis workbooks without any prompting.

 

We've checked SSO for WEBI reports and it works fine!

 

Our BI system version: 4.1 SP 5, patch 6
Analysis 1.4 SP 12

 

 

Our steps:

1. A keystore was configured and certificates were generated according to wiki document Generate keystore and certificate for SAP BO BI4.0 - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki

 

2. Imported sertificates into SAP BO and Netweaver (000 mandant) accoring to wiki document Import SAP BO BI4.0 certificate into SAP BW - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki


3. In SAP BO a STS was configured for Adaptive Processing Server according to wiki document Setting up SAP SSO using the Security Token Service (STS) - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki

 

4. Reload SIA (Server Intelligence Agent)

 

5. Profile parameters are:

login/accept_sso2_ticket = 1

login/create_sso2_ticket = 2


6. SAP authentication was configured

 

7. Imported roles from BW and for Enterprise user configured BW aliases.

 

8. As data source for Analysis workbook we use OLAP-connections (type SSO).

 

Also we checked the system time on both the BOE and BW systems are the same according to the note 1834063.

 

Also there is KBA 1768868 - "What is SAP Business Objects Analysis and what SSO options are available" wherein said:

 

"There are two ways of using SSO with Analysis for MS Office:

 

1. Using the Analysis for Excel tool directly on a client machine using SNC (SNC needs to installed and configured on each client).

 

2. Integrating Analysis for Office tools with Business Objects.  - In our case we should use this approach.

 

In this scenario, the Analysis for Excel reports are being saved in the Launchpad/Infoview.

The users login to the Infoview using the SAP login ID. Then theyopen the reports with SSO enabled.

 

In order to achieve SSO with Business Objects BI 4.0, the following criteria must be met :

a) SAP authentication should be configured - DONE.

b) In CMC set OLAP-Connections to SSO type - DONE.

c) With BI 4.0, the user doesn't need to own a user account in the BW system. They can use the login credential embedded with the data

source in Analysis.

 

Can somebode explaine с) point?

 

Do we need to configure a SNC between BO and BW?

Error while running AO report through macro

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Hi Experts,

 

I am getting below error while running analysis office report through macro.

Error_AO.JPG

We are using AO 1.4 SP12. Our BW is on 7.31 SP8.

 

When I run this report without macro, its working fine. Error comes while running the same through macro. I have also attached log file for more information.(Please remove .text from that file)

 

Appreciate you response.

 

Regards,

Niket Talati

Backend Table for AAO Workbooks - Planning Objects

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Hello All,

 

Do we have a backend table to find the presence of a planning object in a AAO workbook ?

 

I have tried to see via Metadata Repository but I dont even find the workbook there. The table RSAOOBJ could not help.

 

Any suggestions would be really helpful.

 

Regards,

Vinoth

Timeout in Analysis for Office after 1 minute when connecting to BIP

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Hi everyone,

 

I have seen several incidents sent to SAP related to timeout after 1 minute when connecting to BI platform via Analysis for Office.

The error is usually something like the following:

 

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- Critical: General .NET Exception:

The request channel timed out while waiting for a reply after 00:00:59.9899988. Increase the timeout value passed to the call to Request or increase the SendTimeout value on the Binding. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.The HTTP request to 'https://<SERVER>/dswsbobje/services/BIPlatform' has exceeded the allotted timeout of 00:00:59.9940000. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.

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This issue is described in SAP notes below:

>> 2032085 - AO: Timeout when trying to display list of data source from BIP

>> 2019220 - Analysis for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint login times out

 

The Analysis Office developers included code corrections to optimize the requests to BIP server from AO 1.4 SP9 onwards.

 

Therefore, if you are experiencing this issue in Analysis for Office, please update your AO to the latest version by visiting the link below and following this menu path:

 

http://support.sap.com/software/patches.html

- Click on "Browse Download Catalog"

--- Analytics Solutions

----- SBOP ANALYSIS MS OFFICE

------- SBOP ANALYSIS MS OFFICE 1.4

--------- Comprised Software Component Versions

----------- ANALYSIS OFFICE CLIENT 1.4
------- SBOP ANALYSIS MS OFFICE 2.0

--------- Comprised Software Component Versions

----------- ANALYSIS OFFICE CLIENT 2.0

 

Regards,

Filipe Zeuch

HANA Relational Connection to Analysis for Office 2.0

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Dear all,

 

I´m trying to create a HANA Connection to Analysis for Office with following versions installed:

 

Analysis for Office 2.0

Just updated Client BI 4.1 to SP 5

HANA version (under HANA Studio) is 1.00.80.00.391861

 

I have been trying different options and I have not been able to connect porperly to the data.

With a Relational Connection created in the IDT I can access the HANA sources and build my report normally, but at the moment of saving the report I get an error saying: "Cannot save workbook in 2.0 format because it is still in 1.4 format and contains an inactive SAP HANA data source"

 

Do you have any idea of why I get this error?

 

Thanks and BR

 

Araceli

move AfO workbook from BO platform to NetWeaver

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Hello Community,

 

currently we have stored all our workbooks in the BO platform but after some tests with end users we decided to move everything to the SAP BW NetWaever Portal. One reason for example was the missing transport functionality and another one was that there is no option to work with variants. I opened a workbook from the BO platform and then I wanted to save it to SAP NetWeaver but that option is missing. Therefore my question is - is there any way to save / transport / move a workbook from one platform to the other?

 

I hope that anyone can help us in that case.

 

Thanks a lot for your Feedback.

 

Kind Regards,

Juliane

Missing Crosstabs in Analysis for Office

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I've added several datasources to my excel file and refresh them monthly. However, this month upon refreshing all of the datasources are there - but none of the crosstabs are.

 

Is there a way to restore the crosstabs? Does anyone know why the crosstabs would be missing?

 

see attached screenshot


Extend Size for Number of Cells in AO

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Hello All,

 

We are making use of Analysis for Office and want to extend the size limit of the workbook cells, Understood from multiple SDN blogs and WIKI SCN about the REGEDIT Settings and RSADMIN settings.

 

Firstly I checked for AdvanceAnalysis/Datasource/Settings path & folder in REGEDIT but couldn't find it! I had to manually create them and maintain appropriate settings there but even after maintaining the settings the size limit isn't getting extended?

 

Business requirement is to extended cell value to 1M+

We are using OS 64 BIt, MS Office 64 Bit and AO 64bit edition for our analysis

 

Thanks

Abhishek Shanbhogue

Analysis 1.4 On Excel Result

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On Analysis, every time when we drag a characteristic to display on the report, the result line is always populated.  Is there a setting where we can turn it off.

 

Also, the result row is basically the sum of each key figure.  What if on the report, we have Qty and %,

By default, the result row is auto. sum up the Qty. but for %, we want to show average instead of sum it up.  Is there a way to do it?

 

 

Really appreciate for any insights,

Thanks

How to find ODBC Data Source?

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After I installed 2.0 version,  I cannot find local ODBC when I to select Data Source. All I can see are SAP connection - no option to connect to HANA.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Scott

Custom Ribbon with Analysis 2.0

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Hello,

 

We created a custom ribbon which includes individually programmed features based on VBA and references standard functionality from the Analysis Ribbon.

The reference is handled in the CustomUI.xml based on the following Code:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<mso:customUI xmlns:x1="SBOP.AdvancedAnalysis.Addin.1" xmlns:mso="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2009/07/customui">

  <mso:ribbon startFromScratch="false">

    <mso:tabs>

      <mso:tab idQ="x1:com.sap.ip.bi.analysis.menu" visible="true"></mso:tab>

      <mso:tab id="Tab1" label="Custom Ribbon">

        <mso:group id="DataGroup" label="Analysis" visible="true">

          <mso:control idQ="x1:com.sap.ip.bi.pioneer.core.command.refresh" size="normal" visible="true" />

          <mso:control idQ="x1:com.sap.ip.bi.newpioneer.controls.sort" size="normal" visible="true" />

          <mso:control idQ="x1:com.sap.ip.bi.newpioneer.excel.Hierarchy" size="normal" visible="true" />

          <mso:control idQ="x1:com.sap.ip.bi.newpioneer.excel.calculations" size="normal" visible="true" />

          <mso:control idQ="x1:com.sap.ip.bi.newpioneer.excel.totals" size="normal" visible="true" />

        </mso:group>

      </mso:tab>

    </mso:tabs>

  </mso:ribbon>

</mso:customUI>

 

With the Upgrade to Analysis 2.0 the referenced functionality stopped working. The buttons don't show at all.

 

Is it still possible to reference functionality from Analysis 2.0 in custom ribbons?

 

Thanks in andvance and regards,

Jason

Short Dump UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION after login to HANA system - not able to open HANA View with Analysis for Office 2.0 SP03 - with AO 1.3 it´s possible

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Hi experts,

 

we want to use existing HANA Views with SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Office.

 

With Analysis for Office 1.3 it was possible without short dumps and errors.

 

With Analysis for Office 2.0 SP 03, in the Backend system we become the short dump "UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION" after the Analaysis for Office login to the HANA system.

 

scn_ao_2.jpg

scn_ao_1.jpg

 

scn_ao_3.jpg

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance and best regards,

Michael

Issue with Analysis for Excel while using connections with and without single-sign-on.

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Users and myself are seeing issues when having Analysis workbooks open that have both single sign on enabled connections and non-single sign on enabled connections. In our public space, we went ahead and updated all of the connections to the newer single sign on connections. However, our users have modified our public reports to fit their specific needs and many were saved before we updated the public folders so they still are using the non-SSO connection. The workbook seems to crash right away or in the middle of use when having reports with both types of connections open at the same time. Has anyone else seen this issue and/or found any fixes? Using Analysis 1.4.12 with Microsoft Office 2013.

How to Freeze column width when refreshing an AO Query

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Hello Everyone,

 

In 3.X Bex Analyzer users can able to freeze the crosstab columns after refreshing the bex workbook.

 

Now we have coverted the 3.X query to 7.X query and created the AO WB.

 

Users are familier with freezing the column width in Bex and we would like to know, how this can be achieved in AO.

 

Looking forward for your inputs.

 

Thanks,

John.


Analysis Office - BI and Planning Clients Convergence ASUG Webcast

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This was an ASUG webcast given by SAP’s Alexander Peter.  The usual legal disclaimers apply.  We also had a lengthy question and answer, posted below.

1fig.jpg

Figure 1: Source: SAP

 

The focus of Figure 1 during the webcast is the plan to converge Live Office and all office integration into Analysis Office.  It also covers the BEx Analyzer in tool

New tool is Analysis Office

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Figure 2: Source: SAP

 

Figure 2 shows one product in the future – Analysis Office

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Figure 3: Source: SAP

 

The planning objective is to have co-existence in same workbook, using the Excel layer, central services for central plug-ins

 

With 2.1, you get 2 plug-ins, and you decide at installation if you want one (or both)

 

You also see two ribbon tabs

 

You can open existing content from previous releases

 

It also has a single refresh all button

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Figure 4: Source: SAP

 

Figure 4 shows the upgrade path.  Note the EPM restrictions in Analysis Office 2.1 – Word support, EPM extensions, EVDRE formulas

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Figure 5: Source: SAP

 

Figure 5 shows the upgrade path; note that it depends on the data source

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Figure 6: Source: SAP

 

Figure 6 shows Analysis Office 2.1

 

Analysis Office has a single installer with both add-ins; you define in installer if you only want one

 

The default is to install both; 1 installer = 1 license

 

Figure 6 shows the API to control new lines and formats

 

Precalculation works for 2.1 works, API for logon and messages

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Figure 7: Source: SAP

 

In the middle of Figure 7, “planned innovations”, the plan for 2.2 is to be released in Q4

 

Figure 7 in the middle shows three main buckets of investment, with convergence, more UX harmonization and continuous improvement.   SAP is working to provide .NET API instead of VBA along with InfoProvider search improvements

 

The future (after 12-18 months) is Live Office convergence

 

Question & Answer

QuestionResponse
Will this cover the BPC Consolidation also, which uses EPM Add-in as well?Only from the Excel front end side
Is there a unified Login? How is security being maintainedFor each plug in separate tabs and separate logons
can we open traditional BPC reports created with EVDRE?Not in AO 2.1
does analysis plug-in also supports LIVEOFFICEThat is still a separate install today - Live Office can be active at same time.
Does version 2.1 work with SAP GUI 7.4 and NWBC 5.0? Version 2.0 of Analysis Office does not work with SAP GUI 7.4Yes it does work with those SAP Gui Versions
Will the EPM addin be available seperately going forward or will it be depreciatedEPM will be part of AO 2.1 install
what's the planned timeframe for AO 2.1 GA?It is in ramp-up today; GA depends on when SAP meets its KPI's
So there is no plan to merge classic BPC with Analysis?Classic model is still part of EPM plug-in - no plan to have in AO plugin
Are u recommending that we install only EPM plugin when BPC 10 is installed for addin2.1?If have EPM 10 and want new features install AO2.1 with EPM flavor
Will EPM Add-in continue to be a separate install or will it be included as part fo the Analysis 2.1 installation software?It will be part of AO 2.1 - EPM 10 is in maintenance & still supported
Can we have EPM addin and Analysis BOTH installed together with AO2.1 for our EPM 10 and BW 7.4 ?AO2.1 already has EPM install - one Analysis product
Is there a server side installation in Business Objects to enable usage of Analysis for Office 2.1?no it is a client tool - there is a add-on for BIP used for scheduling & precalc
Will there be a convergence for Classic BPC 10.1 and Analysis for Office?Analysis plug-in is access classic models? - answer is no; EPM is part of Analysis Office - need to know if talk plugin or product
Can we schedule EPM reports?not the way we are doing Analysis - EPM is not part of precalc - looking into
Does Analysis Office support user's ability to write data back to a database (BW)?Only with the planning model - BW-IP
Since EVDRE is not supported ... is the migration tool available in AO 2.1?If migration was part of 10 it would be available- answer offline
I saw a prereq of .Net version 3 for Analysis 2.1 . Does the install supply this?.NET is 4.5 is not part of installation - 2 things - VSTO runtime is a prereq - not part of install
Any new EPM support packages/patches different than EPM SP21 Patch 3 before GA for 2.1?Don't know; does't have patch schedule - follow up
what are the limitations of EPM addin of 2.0 vs 1.4could you clarify? 2.1 & EPM 10? EVDRE formulas in next release & extension
Is data manager tab available in AO2.1 or is the functionality available somewhere elese?Still there - can hide it
do we have any additional features on BPC reporting using EPM along with Analysisnot really; still on the roadmap; main things - work status & process flow
You mentioned defining OLAP functions in the data cells in the grid if I understood you correctly or is it just available in the axes?Could you clarify? Planning to do something with planning functions in cells local members - AO table design - add a new column & add Excel formula - will be translated to a new calc measure
Does AO 2.1 work with BW 7.3?yes
can we provide UI for log off & ogi instead of va API ?There is no plan; it was typical BEx approach to logon - not need in AO as you connect to several sources at same time; couple of scenarios - to have new master data in planning process and load it - only way to do that was to clear session in backend
currently in table design new lines data does not persist after refresh ? whats the plan ?Next release allow for Excel formulas, and do something around text - like comments
Will there no longer be independent EPM Add-in SP's released after the AO 2.1 release?Yes there will be SP's for EPM 10 as long as it in maintenance - until 2020
connecting to UNX/UNV in AO ?Live Office Future direction - see roadmap slide

 

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Proposed Features for Analysis office Next Release

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Hello Everyone,

 

I am new to Analysis Office and currently I am working on version 1.4. I have read about the new features which are coming in 2.0 SP1 version.

So apart from this I have some more points regarding the new features for next release of Analysis Office.

 

 

  1. New Characteristic : While we create the workbook many times we have to create a new values based on the existing characteristics, it may be from single or multiple characteristic. Like "Plant" + "Material" combination, or taking the first N char of "Material". As we have to do this manually or we have to write Macro to fill the entire series. Can we have this features in Analysis Office itself.
  2. Lookup in Cross-tab : We have to write the lookup formulas to get some fields from other cross-tab, can we have this features where instead of giving the lookup range in sheet we can have the lookup range in Cross-tab.
  3. Client Out-of-memory : Many times we face the issue Client Out of memory due to the large amount of data, can we have the solution like suppose the query result give the output of 5 million cells so system splits it in 5 by giving the 5 output as 1st 1 million records, 2nd 1 million records like this. And we will have the option to choose data and we can place it in multiple sheets/file and later we can merge it. In this way we don't have to manually restrict data.
  4. GUI for Style sheets : Currently its bit complex to find the particular style component and change the formatting, instead of this can we have the option in context menu over cross-tab cells where it shows which style component it is and there only we can change the formatting which will be applicable for the entire cross tab.

 

 

Please correct me and let me know if these features are available already and how to use them.

 

Thanks & Regards

Vijayendra Suryawanshi

How to suppress this ERROR row?

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I created a basic BEx against an infocube and came across this ERROR value from the highlighted row depicted in the attached screenshot. Anyone have any ideas on how to remove the ERROR value and suppress BAG?

 

I tried AAO workflow Measures>General Format> Without Currency/Unit but it did not work.

 

Background:

AAO 1.3.5.2288

BW 7.4

 

 

Thanks for your time!

Design Panel Location

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My Design Panel is stuck in a location above the spreadsheet (see below). How do I restore it to the default location on the right hand side? I tried resetting the customization of the ribbon, but that didn't do anything. I was able to close the spreadsheet before and re-open it and it would be back to the default location. But now, that doesn't work either. So I want to see if there's a way to restore to the default location now, and whenever you are working in Analysis itself.

 


Publish Analysis workbook in SAP Front End (GUI)

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Hello gurus.

 

 

 

Simple question, can I publish an Analysis Workbook directly into the SAP BW Front End (GUI) like an BEx Analyzer Workbook? It seems can only do it only in Launchpad BI and schedule it.

The only option i figured out is identifying the route (web url) to open and download the Analysis file from the BO server. With this option i could publish the workbook like a query into the menu of the BW System.

 

 

 

Anyone has done this kind of publication? (it seems this kind of solution passes throught Portal, but we dont have that option right now)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks in advance,

Ignacio

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