Since last week the latest version of Analysis Office is available. I installed it right away and want to test it. And what I have to see? You cann’t add hierarchies into the rows or columns of
your crosstab. I tried to record it maybe you can see it in the video below.

Does nobody test basic functions before releasing a new version? But they also fixed some bugs from previous versions.

• Analysis Office: Red borders around valid new line cells (s-note 2831840)
• AO: Documents opened from a BI Platform system are not displayed in Recent Documents List of AO (s-note 2848548)
• Analyis Office: Content of new line cells is overwritten by content of other crosstab cells when opening workbook (s-note 2861063)
• Analysis Office: Design rules formats of master crosstab not applied to dependent crosstab (s-note 2849041)
• Analysis Office: Exception when closing workbook in case ‚Remove Data Before Saving‘ is active (s-note 2854979)
• Analysis Office: Inconsistent behavior if RSADMIN parameter BICS_NEW_LINE_CHECK_ENABLED is set to blank or not existing (s-note 2844345)
• Analysis Office: Performance Tuning (s-note 2821386)
• Error after assigning attributes or while dragging them (s-note 2852220)
• Filter of a planning function not set (s-note 2851131)
• Grouped Crosstabs: „No Applicable Data“ in all Cells of the Dependants (s-note 2858675)
• Login to SAC System fails due to not receiving a valid X-XSRF token from the root url (s-note 2853284)
• New Lines – Value suggestion is not working for cell if display is combination of Text and Key (s-note 2859180)
• New Lines and Format Cells entries not disabled in context menu while running Analysis for Office in embedded Excel (s-note 2860401)
• RFC_METADATA error after upgrading BW server (client part) (s-note 2861026)
• Refresh does not work when refreshing via Workbook_SAP_Initialize event (s-note 2848410)
• Scheduling fails if Workbook contains several Styles Definitions for same Name (s-note 2840608)

I hope SAP will release soon a serivce pack 1 for Analysis Office 2.8 and fix the problem with the hierarchy, because at the moment Analysis Office 2.8 is not useable.

Update 09.12.19:

As described in the comments, it works on SAP BW 7.5 SP11 and my test was on a SAP BW 7.5 SP16.

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