Setting up SAP BusinessObjects single sign-on based on WinAD logins.
Single sign-on (SSO) is an important feature that I highly recommend all organizations to setup in their SAP BusinessObjects implementations. It allows users to move between services securely and...
View ArticleScheduling jobs based on trigger events
Being able to schedule a job based on a trigger event is a very important feature in SAP BusinessObjects. For example, let’s say we have a report that is refreshed daily based on data updated by a...
View ArticleCascading Prompts in BOBJ Dashboards and WEBI
A cascading prompt, helps the user focus on values they want to include in the prompt without the need to go through every possible value. A great example comes from a list of cities around the world....
View ArticleBEx Query greyed out in Web Intelligence
A common problem when trying to access a BEx Query from Web Intelligence is that we cannot! I want to build a query off the sales test query, however it is greyed out. Well here’s an easy fix. All you...
View ArticleMixing unmerged dimensions in Web Intelligence
The concept of merging queries in Web Intelligence is quite simple, however once you have a requirement of mixing unmerged dimensions in an output table, this is when it gets messy! Let’s take a look...
View ArticleCurrentDate() not what you think in Web Intelligence
In Web Intelligence there are a variety of helpful date functions that you can use. 2 in particular are CurrentDate() and CurrentTime(). You would think that CurrentDate() returns just the current date...
View ArticleHow to bypass opendocument login screen
In this article I’d like to show you a simple example of how to bypass the opendocument login. This is especially useful if you are trying to use an opendocument call to open up a web intelligence...
View ArticleChecklist of items to watch out for when applying an SAP BusinessObjects...
Every time I apply a service pack upgrade or patch at a client site, I’m always excited about the features or fixes. However it is very annoying that any customizations get overwritten. This includes...
View ArticleData masking in SAP BusinessObjects
One of the cool features with Information Design Tool and UNX universes is the ability to point to different table views depending on your security profile. Because of this, we can easily perform data...
View ArticleData masking vs Business object security in SAP BusinessObjects
In the previous article, we talked about how to implement data masking using data security profiles at the universe level to prevent users from viewing sensitive data. Data Masking in SAP...
View ArticleConnecting HANA Live to SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BusinessObjects (Part 1)
Being able to connect to a live HANA connection via SAP Analytics Cloud or SAP BusinessObjects is important, as query processing is all done on the HANA engine rather than SAC or SAP BOBJ. To...
View ArticleConnecting HANA Live to SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BusinessObjects (Part 2)
In this article we will go through creating different HANA Connections in SAP BusinessObjects and then using them in different applications. We’ll also talk about the differences between the different...
View ArticleInformix WHERE CLAUSE DATE bug in SAP BusinessObjects
While creating a universe off an Informix database, I discovered a bug that SAP never took care of or provided any documentation on fixing, which was quite of surprising. Basically using a date object...
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