Business Intelligence with SAP Business Objects 4.3

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI Suite  new layout features (4.2.x) SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Supports Query Filters Prompts defined on Webi Document to  enable end user to Filter the Document Data while refreshing the Document and also OpenDoc Linking  Prompts Support - All Data Types - All Operands - Single and Multiple Prompts - Dependent Prompts - Hierarchical Prompts - Prompt Properties – Prompt with List of Values – Select Value only from list – Optional Prompts – Set Default Values OpenDoc Support - sRefresh - sReport It's also possible using Cascading Prompt (Dependent prompts) or Hierarchicalon SAP BusinessObjects Mobile  See following image as example Input Control and Element Linking SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Supports Input Controls defined on Webi Document to enable end user to Filter the Report Data and also Element Linking Input Control Support - All Data Types (except Hierarchies) - All Operands - Single and Multiple In

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI Suite  new layout features (4.2.x) n SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI Suite you can easly convert a WebI report into Mobile Report as you can see from the following images: In the latest SAP BI Mobile version are now supported different table types, such as: V-Table, H-Table and X-Table More  powerful Visualization – and more table Properties and Formatting SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Supports Table Properties and Formatting Options Like Text color, Background color and Embedded Images (with / without conditional alerts), Multiple Headers, Merged Cells and Headers and Breaks Moreover is possible to merge Headers and cells and apply breaks You can insert more kind of charts ( Bar, Stacked Bar, Grouped Bar, Line, Pie and Combined Bar and Line Chart with Single axis ) in one page,  and you can also customize colors. Now is also available accessing sections and section header and  formatting. Read also the

#DATATYPE ERROR Environment:  WebI  BO XI R3.1 SP 4  You got thi error when you are using a wrong data type .  For example if  your data is numerical but it is throwing char or date then Business Objects will  expose this error. Often it  happens, when you mix string and number or string and date/time data types.   If these data types are mixed, the function returns a string. As Date/time and number data types cannot be mixed  the results is a #DATATYPE error. Solution: In Webi  you must create a variable in which you have to convert and cast the data types in order to make them all homogeneous as datatype. Check also: Business Objects errors list

Integrating  SAP BO Design Studio   with SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform Enable application management on BI Platform allows: - Enable multi user-access to applications - Storage of applications and images - Embedded runtime on BI Platform - Central management of system connections The following image show how to Open and save applications on BI Platform How to manage  System connections on BI Platform SAP BO Design Studio satisfies different needs for each company role as follows Executive - Consume and interact with information using simplified BI templates - Analyze information on mobile devices Middle Management - Leverage BI applications for planning and forecasting scenarios - User product interoperability to share results with other BI clients Business Analyst - Leverage BI applications for planning and forecasting scenarios  - Create BI applications and design guided navigations Consumer - Use pre-built templates with guided step

SAP  BusinessObjects  Design Studio  SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio   represents  BEx Web & BEx Web Application Designer successor. Design Stuido allows for intuitive design of centrally governable analytic content ranging from guided analytics to sophisticated OLAP applications and aggregated dashboards.  The product features iPad support, an  HTML5 User Interface, differents themes available for application and a WYSIWYG Eclipse-based designer, full & native support of BW BEx queries, direct connectivity to HANA as well as an advanced scripting engine. Available features in detail: - Intuitive WYSIWYG design environment for designers - Large set of design components (buttons, tabs, dropdown menus etc.) - Extend via scripting language (subset of JavaScript) - Enterprise Ready Life Cycle Management - Central Supportability - Theming & Customizing iPad Support built-in Apps are ready for immediate usage on standard web browsers and mobile

 An internal error occured while calling 'getMap' API. (Error : ERR_WIS_30270). Environment BOE XI R3.1 SP 4 This is a generic error message,  in our case we had this error while we were applying  some changes to an old WebIntelligence report. By searching through SAP notes there are about 100's of notes on this error. The problems can range from bugs (as also stated in this thread) to configuration issues with universe to report design.  IF you are unable to resolve with the latest patch then open a case with the SAP BO. Solution In our case we saved the report we re-open it and we made some changes in the query pane and after this it was refreshed correctly. Other case: Considering four web intelligence reports, among these, for one report when i click on refresh list of values of a prompt i am getting the error  "An internal error occored while calling process DPCommands API (Error: ERR_WIS_30270) (Error.INF).  In order to solve thi

Geomap report on the latest SAP BI MOBILE APP 4.4.18 Environment BOE XI 3.1 SP 4 compared to the SAP BI Mobile app Vers 4.4.12 the last version 4.4.18 has a great improvement  because supports many functions witch were not before. You can Enable alerters (for geo-analysis) by adding the suffix “ca1” in the table (report block) Name.  For example, if  the block Name in Web Intelligence is map_lt3_lo4_poi2_od5; you need to update the name  to: map_lt3_lo4_poi2_od5_ca1. So in this version you can assign to a measure a specific colour in order to remark different measures  (as you can see from the following images) The Webi Report sholud have the following structure: assigning a different colour to each indicators will be displayed in Ipad as POI that change colour on selecting a different measure: You can also regroup all the measures related to the POI by adding  the suffix  “gp1” in the Name of the report part (