SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office Document Version: What's New Guide

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1 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office Document Version:

2 Content 1 About this guide About the documentation set Administration New and changed administration options in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office Analysis Plug-in What's New in Analysis Plug-in Enterprise Performance Management Plug-in What's New in EPM Plug-in in Business Planning and Consolidation Plug-in What's New in BPC Plug-in in SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Content

3 1 About this guide The What's New guide for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, provides a complete list of the new and modified features for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis since the previous release. It also comprises a list of all new and changed administration tasks for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis. About this guide 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 3

4 2 About the documentation set The documentation set for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, comprises the following guides and online help products: Tip The guides and tutorials are regulary updated and enhanced. Make sure that you have the latest version by checking the SAP Help Portal and SAP Community Network on a regular basis. Administrator Guide The Administrator Guide contains detailed information that a user needs to install, configure and administer the edition for Microsoft Office. The guide is available on the SAP Help Portal. User Guide The User Guide contains the conceptual information, procedures and reference material that a user needs to create and analyze Microsoft Excel workbooks and Microsoft PowerPoint slides with the edition for Microsoft Office. There are two user guides for Analysis: the Analysis Plug-in User Guide and the EPM Plug-in User Guide. The guides are available on the SAP Help Portal. Online Help The online help contains the same information as the User Guide. It is included in the plug-ins. To access context sensitive help, move the mouse cursor to a field in the ribbon and select F1. For dialogs, you can access context sensitive help by selecting F1 when the dialog is open. The What's New guide for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, provides a complete list of the new and modified features for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis since the previous release. The guide is available on the SAP Help Portal SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. About the documentation set

5 elearning Tutorials The tutorials show you how to use SAP BusinessObjects Analysis. They give you a quick introduction to different features so that you can learn the basics of working with the Add-In. They also give you a first impression of the look and feel. The tutorials are available in the SAP Community Network at refer=product-help. About the documentation set 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 5

6 3 Administration 3.1 New and changed administration options in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 2.3 You can find more detailed information on the options listed below in the Administration guide for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office. Installation As of 2.3, Anaylsis consists of three installable components: Analysis plug-in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) plug-in Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) plug-in The components are part of one installer file and can be installed in one step. Analysis Plug-in Settings The following settings are new: EnableAnalysisViewConversion You use this setting to define whether the Conversion tab with the Analysis View Migration setting in the settings dialog is displayed. ShowSsoLogonDialogBip (documentation update) You use this setting to specify whether the Logon dialog box should be displayed when using SSO with the BI platform. If the logon dialog box is displayed, the user can select one of the available BI platforms and change the logon language. CancelPopupDelay You use this setting to specify after how many seconds the cancel dialog should be displayed when a data update is requested from the server (BW and HANA) and the crosstab is redrawn. This could be inserting a data source or navigating through the data, for example filtering data or adding dimensions to the crosstab SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Administration

7 4 Analysis Plug-in 4.1 What's New in Analysis Plug-in 2.3 You can find more detailed information on the features listed below in the User guide for the Analysis Plug-in 2.3. Launching the Query Designer for editing a data source You can now access the SAP HANA Web-based Development Workbench editor directly from Analysis. In the editor, you can check and edit HANA calculation views that has been inserted as data source in the current workbook. Defining style sets for crosstabs The style set SAP Blue Crystal is new. The following SAP standard cell styles are new: SAPMessageText SAPFormula Working with formulas The formula SAPSetData is new. You can use it to set planning values. You can either enter values directly or you can refer to another cell in Microsoft Excel that contains the values. In formula SAPGetVariable, the property name BASEINFOOBJECT is new. You can use it to display the technical name of the dimension the variable is based on. Working with macros The API method SAPOpenWorkbook is new. You can use it to open a document (Analysis workbook or presentation). The document that should be opened can be stored in a local BW system, on a SAP NetWeaver server or on a BI platform. Analysis Plug-in 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 7

8 Analyzing data with the design panel: Property View on the Analysis tab You can now enter a new description for single measures, dimensions and hierarchies to rename the data source element. The new description is directly available in the Analysis UI: in the design panel, in the crosstab and in the dialogs, for example the Filter dialog. You can also save new descriptions with a view in Analysis. Depending on the platform you use, this could be a query view, an Analysis view or a HANA view. Analyzing data with the design panel: Information tab For MultiProviders, the field Last Data Update contains two dates. The date when all InfoProviders of the MultiProvider were updated successfully for the last time (LastDataUpdate) and the date when a single InfoProvider of the MultiProvider was updated for the last time (LastDataUpdateMaximum). Analyzing data with the design panel: Components tab The following functions are new: With the property Subsequent Refresh, you can define the behavior for executing Refresh All. With Transaction Data Only (default), only the transactional data is updated for online data sources. With Log Off and Reconnect, the data sources are logged off and reconnected again. Using the context menu, you can manage the system connections on workbook level. You can log off from all systems the workbook is connected to. You can also reconnect to the systems or replace a system with another system here. For planning objects, you can now specify if they should be refreshed when a refresh is executed with Refresh All. The property is called Refresh Planning Objects on Refresh All. Analyzing data with the design panel: Design Rules tab The tab Design Rules is new. You can display and maintain the rules created with Table Design on this tab. You can deactivate and activate rules or delete them. Rules of type Format or NewLine can also be edited from the design panel. You can also change the priority of the rules. Filtering data by member The following functions are new: You can paste a single or a list of members from a file using the Paste from File icon at the left bottom of the filter dialog SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Analysis Plug-in

9 As for pasting from clipboard, the members that you want to paste have to be displayed as key in the file. The Explicit Selection option is new. It could be useful if you do not have the authorization for all members of a dimension. Calculating new measures You can now add restricted measures based on measures of SAP BW data sources. The function is available if you use a SAP BW system with release 7.50 SP4 or highter. In former releases, this function is only available for SAP HANA data sources. Canceling a server request With the setting CancelPopupDelay, an administrator can specify after how many seconds the cancel dialog should be displayed when a data update is requested from the server (BW and HANA). You can use this cancel dialog to cancel the server request and go back to the workbook. If you do not cancel the server request, the dialog will disappear automatically when the server request is completed. Planning Data manually For dimensions that are created in BW as characteristics without master data, you can now enter master data in the new lines and create new members in Analysis. New members can only be created in Analysis if the RSADMIN parameter PLAN_ALLOW_NOT_EXIST_MEM is active (value X) in the BW system. In a BW system, RSADMIN parameters are maintained in transaction se38, program SAP_RSADMIN_MAINTAIN. Settings In the settings dialog, the Conversion tab is new. It contains the BEx Workbook Conversion (formerly part of the platform settings) and the new Analysis View Migration. Using the Analysis View Migration, you can migrate analysis views created with a 1.x Analysis version and containing SAP HANA data sources based on ODBC connections to 2.x analysis views based on HTTP connections for SAP HANA data sources. Analysis Plug-in 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 9

10 5 Enterprise Performance Management Plug-in 5.1 What's New in EPM Plug-in in 2.3 The What's New information for the EPM plug-in is part of the user guide. You can find the EPM plug-in user guide on the SAP Help Portal at SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Enterprise Performance Management Plug-in

11 6 Business Planning and Consolidation Plugin 6.1 What's New in BPC Plug-in in 2.3 The Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) plug-in is a new component to SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, as of version 2.3. The plug-in allows to execute the Microsoft Excel or PowerPoint-related tasks for the activities defined on the web client of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, as part of the Business Process Flows feature. Business Planning and Consolidation Plug-in 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 11

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