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It’s a kind of summer break at the moment and I haven’t done a lot for this blog in the last time. But SAP now release the 7th service pack of Analysis Office. 

You can now use the filtering data access mode with SAP Analytics Cloud data sources, analytic and planning models. There are also 3 new file system settings:

• ShowCutCopyPasteInGridContextMenu
• EnableImprovedAddInCompatibility
• UseSeparateDisplaySettingsForFilterDialog

The setting ShowCutCopyPasteInGridContextMenu allows you to sepcify whether the cut, copy and paste entries should be available in the context menu for a crosstab cell. The setting
EnableImprovedAddInCompatibility should improve the compatibility with other Microsoft Office add-ins. How this work we will see.

The setting UseSeparateDisplaySettingsForFilterDialog you can define if the display settings defined in the filter dialog should be saved with the workbook.

So as you can see nothing spectecularit fixes also a little bit:

• ALL: Current View Edition mode when a member start with the same characters that another member (s-note 2811124)
• ALL: during a customized drill through Excel remains frozen (s-note 2813223)
• ALL: last selection not saved when set to Base Level (s-note 2811297)
• AO 2.7 SP6: Office 2010 – Can’t open AO workbooks via launcher (s-note 2814329)
• Analysis Office Performance Issue when Refreshing Workbooks with Many Format (Design) Rules (s-note 2813968)
• ALL:Report options are truncated (s-note 2814791)

 I am still looking for Analysis Office 2.8, but now I am first enyoing my vacation.

These posts might also be interesting:

• What’s new in Analysis Office 2.7 SP2
• Analysis Office Data Source for defining formulas
• What’s new in Analysis Office 2.6 SP3
• What’s new in Analysis Office 2.6 SP2

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It has been a quite while since the last post. But with a go live and a reorganization of my current project I hadn’t time to look into some topic. But here is a new kind of interessting bug. We
had an open task from a user of the controlling department, that a query display the message:

„Size Limit of result set exceeded.“

That’s an odd thing, because the query has only six columns and 110 rows and when the user dragged the calendar month into the columns it should have 12 columns for the actual year and 110 rows.
Which is defintily lower than the limit of Analysis for Office, which is 500.000 cells.

So I tested the query in the BW backend with the transaction rsrt. It worked perfectly.

So the query is working correctly. But why Analysis for Office throw me the error? It appears on different computers and the rsadmin
parameter was default by 500.000 cells. After a little search I found the problem. The query dimensions were all set to show Vales from Master Data instead of Posted
Values and the query has the option to suppress zeros in columns and rows. So when I deselect the suppress zero option, the query now shows around 83.000 rows and 6
columns which are 498.000 cells and this is short below the limit of 500.000 cells. 

Now we change the option from Show Values of Master Data to Posted Value and the query worked for the controlling deparment.The only question which is not answer is why does it work in RSRT
with the same option it doesn’t work in Analysis for Office? Does anyone have an idea?

These posts might also be interesting:

• Analysis Office 2.7 SP4 is available
• Analysis Office – The Comprehensive Guide 4th edition
• Analysis Office 2.6 SP3 is available
• Analysis Office 2.6 SP1 is available

Since 24.05.2019 the latest service pack of Analysis Office is available. At the moment I am working on a test tool to automate testing in BW so I can easy check if any change of mappings and so
on has an impact on my ADSO or query result. But I found time to install it. A „bug“ what I found was when I want to insert a data source from the recent list, nothing happend. The solution was
to reinstall Analysis Office and now it works. Here is the list of bug fixes:

• Analysis Office: Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC when trying to save a protected workbook (s-note 2781162)
• Launcher error when launching from BIP (s-note 2781090)
• Warning message about comments without using comments (s-note 2780925)
• ALL: Locked cells can be edited when Excel grouping/ungrouping is allowed (s-note 2784832)
• ALL: Refresh may be incorrect in some cases (s-note 2786604)
• ALL: Refresh metadata fails when a workbook was closed before (s-note 2786615)
• AO: End-User-Defined Characters on Prompts (s-note 2781131)
• AO: Mouse actions don’t work in wbs with brackets in their name (s-note 2782332)
• All crosstabs are deleted after clicking on cell after editing (s-note 2791886)
• Analysis Office: After execution of planning sequence or applying filter new lines contain data of the result set (s-note 2789464)
• Analysis Office: Exception when closing workbook (s-note 2788026)
• Analysis Office: Grouping of crosstabs containing characteristics with different names but same descriptions (s-note 2784694)
• Analysis Office: erroneously new lines are displayed after executing a planning sequence (s-note 2785251)
• New Lines – Value Help does not return selected value (s-note 2780363)
• Refresh Data fails if additional Workbook appears during opening and one is cleaned (s-note 2790594)
• Scheduled Workbooks Get Corrupted and Issues with Special Named Ranges and Sheet Names (s-note 2784545)

Did anyone have the same bug with the Insert DataSource function?

These posts might also be interesting:

• Analysis Office 2.7 SP2 is available
• Analysis Office 2.7 SP1 is available
• Analysis Office 2.6 is available
• Analysis Office 2.5 is available

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Since last week SAP published the latest version of Analysis Office 2.7 SP5. I don’t know if any other version ever had a service pack so high like the actual version. At this time SAP doesn’t
offer the newst help file under help.sap.com/boaa. So stay tuned if there is something happening. Here is
an overview about what they fixed:

• ALL: Context Hide and Context Lock issues (s-note 2768898)
• Workbook is corrupted if contained charts are filtered (s-note 2767246)
• Errors with SAPSelectMember formula and sheet protection (s-note 2765798)
• SAP Formulas in Scheduled Workbooks are Displayed as #NAME? in Excel (s-note 2765716)
• Analysis Office: Exception when a workbook contains combined crosstabs where the master crosstab has no data available (s-note 2765191)
• BPCNW: HTTP 404 Error when Prompting Password Change in BPC NW 11 (s-note 2763430)
• Valus of new planning lines are not transferred, if a datasource is set to autorefresh = false (s-note 2762513)
• Analysis Office: query views not contained in a role are displayed in the role tab of the Select Data Source dialog (s-note 2762494)
• Analysis Office: router string not used for BW connections maintained on BIP (s-note 2761063)
• Analysis Office: Error ‚Operation aborted due to invalid input‘ is displayed when no applicable data is found for the query (s-note 2760996)
• AO: Excel crashes when using shortcut CTRL+S to save workbook which have been opened from the server (s-note 2759142)
• Data is not removed if Excel Workbook is saved and closed simultaneously (s-note 2757935)
• Save Workbook cannot be performed for worksheets with Excel Sorting and which don’t contain EPM Report (s-note 2756889)
• Object Id of workbook is not written to RSDDSTAT_OLAP (s-note 2755181)
• ALL: Edit report with dimensions containing non-contextual relationship (s-note 2753472)
• ALL:Issues when refreshing EPM reports in Word document (s-note 2752809)
• Analysis Office: wrong error message ‚Data source xxx was not found on system yyy‘ is displayed (s-note 2752535)
• Prompts dialog: Variable shows green tick mark despite error messages (s-note 2752045)
• Waterfall Chart – ‚Remove Data Before Saving‘ does not work (s-note 2751509)
• Analysis Office: Excel crashes when trying to save a local workbook using Ctrl+S shortcut (s-note 2751426)
• AO: Improved Third Party Add-In compatibility – Excel crashes when using AO and Third Party Add-Ins at the same time (s-note 2750514)
• Opening a workbook twice leads to an exception (s-note
  2750223)
• AO formulas not working when refreshing via Workbook_SAP_Initialize event (s-note 2749895)
• ALL: Offline mode issue when merged cell reference (s-note 2747950)
• Saving of Workbook fails when Waterfall Chart contains no Title (s-note 2747066)
• AO 2.x: Member Selector – Searching for member keys with a backslash in it does not work (s-note 2745608)
• Improvements: performance tooling/ profiling workbook in Analysis Office (s-note 2744828)
• Analysis Office: connection to BW system fails if message server is maintained on BIP using router syntax (s-note 2744794)
• AO 2.x: Can’t logon with language Basque / Euskara (EU) (s-note 2744455)
• Could not read grid properties (s-note 2744138)
• Excel hangs during workbook refresh (s-note 2743853)
• Added Support for PowerPoint Feature ‚Design Ideas‘ (s-note 2743659)
• AO: SAC – Versions Tab not displayed when opening a saved workbook that contains a planning enabled model (s-note 2743355)
• AO 2.7: SAC – Exception when editing cell values while characteristic Versions is in Background Filters (s-note 2743351)
• ALL: Report Recognition issue (s-note 2743045)
• AO 2.x: HANA – Member Selector – Searching for a date does not return any results for characteristics of data type „DATE“ (s-note 2742728)
• F4 Help on Input Ready Cells (s-note 2742723)
• Workbook is corrupted if contained charts are filtered (s-note 2741492)
• SAPGetData referencing a cell of type numeric (s-note 2741409)
• Analysis Office: calling SAPSetFilterComponent via Visual Basic throws an exception (s-note 2740920)

Wow. 😱 That’s a lot what SAP fixes with this service pack. Is Analysis Office meanwhile so complex? I hope they get the product a bit more stable again and I am still looking expectant to
Analysis Office 2.8

If someone found any further information about this version, please send me an email.

These posts might also be interesting:

• Analysis Office 2.7 SP4 is available
• Analysis Office 2.7 SP3 is available
• What’s new in Analysis Office 2.7 SP2
• What’s new in Analysis Office 2.7

It is done, the newest edtion of Analysis Office  – The Comprehensive Guide is available. It took me this time a little bit longer to update it. There are several reasons like my project
workload or the the private stuff which make it sometimes difficult to write on a book and tests functions in peace without noise. You can now find it in the store and here is the table of content. It covers Analysis Office 2.7 SP3 and contains 299 Pages. It is only available as PDF but it is as always DRM free. Also is the 3rd edition now
available on amazon.

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Since the 21.12.2018 the latest service pack of Analysis Office 2.7 is available. I looked in the morning into the Support Portal but it wasn’t released and in the afternoon Patrick wrote on
Twitter, that Analysis Office 2.7 SP3 is
released. I thought it wouldn’t released anymore in 2018 but here are the fixed problems:

• New Options in Excel Single Workbook Publication (s-note
  2729417)
• Bad Performance when switching presentations in Member Selector (s-note 2731997)
• Excel 2010 – „Not enough system resources“ exception after disabling Analysis (s-note 2715429)
• Rendering issues with hierarchies when opening or saving workbooks (s-note 2730596)
• After launching document from platform some functionality of Analysis Office is not available (s-note 2725968)
• Analysis Office Scheduling Fails for Workbooks with Waterfall Charts (s-note 2731173)
• Analysis Office: Expanding or collapsing hierachical nodes not possible after entering planning data (s-note 2725060)
• Analysis for Office: empty cell is displayed instead of header text when using grouped crosstabs (s-note 2714938)
• Array Formulas are not dectected and updated (s-note 2729399)
• BW comments: document filter (s-note 2709480)
• CTRL + F4 or ALT + F4 open Value Help on Input Enabled Cell (s-note 2718143)
• Crosstab Formatting by User is discarded when Data is Removed Before Saving (s-note 2715376)
• Dynamic calculation initially not visible (s-note 2714787)
• Error caused by circular dependency with restrictions (s-note 2732084)
• Error when open workbook from BI Launchpad with local BW data source (s-note 2725798)
• Exception 0x80020005 when working with several workbooks (s-note 2714665)
• Exception when selecting measure or key figure of crosstab (s-note 2719635)
• Known Issues in Application Builder Embedded Profiles in Analysis Office (s-note 2685815)
• Missing authorization when loading comments from BI Platform (s-note 2717435)
• Recent List of Open Workbook from SAP Business Objects BI Platform shows all workbook entries as enabled (s-note 2723455)
• Ribbon controls get duplicated with Embedded profiles in Analysis Office workbooks (s-note 2717113)
• ValueHelp is shown by pressing F4 even if context is wrong (s-note 2716038)
• Workbooks are loaded from Netweaver backend although caching is active (s-note 2722138)

It is as always a bugfixing Service Pack and I don’t see any new functions. If you find one, just write it to the comments. Just little notice, my book Analysis Office  – The Comprehensive
Guide 4th edtion with Analysis Office 2.7 is almost ready for proofreading and so stay tuned.

These posts might also be interesting:

• What’s new in Analysis Office 2.7
• What’s new in Analysis Office 2.6 SP2
• Analysis Office 2.4 SP1 is available
• Analysis Office 2.6 is available

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I received an email from Jean-Pierre, who tried the new function Data Source for Defining
Formulas of Analysis Office 2.7 – but it didn’t work as he mentioned in his email. The option Select Data Soure for Defining Formulas was gray out for BEx Queries.  It worked
when he insert the Multiprovider or the Composite Provider. So I was very confused and tried to find a solution.

The Problem only exists when he insert a Bex Query and he received the error message:

„The selected data source cannot be used formula-optimized. The data source is inserted without crosstab to be used for analysis (ID-113017)

So I checked my test query on our system and it worked. It was very confusing.

I tried another query in our system and now I received the same error. 🤔 Now I thought, ok my query is just a dummy query where I test things, so maybe I switched a switch while I have done
something else and this may the solution. So I looked into the two queries and compared them. I didn’t found a single deviation. The only thing I noticed was, my query was on a Composite Provider with an ADSO and the other query on an old InfoCube.

Based on this solution Jean-Pierre look a little deeper into the function Use formula-optimized and found it only works on

• BEx Query based on ADSO
• Advanced DSO
• MultiProvider
• Composite Provider

So here we are, it doesn’t work on Queries based on Composite Providers? Let me think. In my case it do so maybe the conclusions from Jean-Pierre are wrong?

Then I got an update from him. The User Guide of Analysis Office 2.7 SP2 says:

„As data source, you can use InfoCube and Queries. The queries must have a key figure strcture and they can contain restrictions, restricted key figures and calculated key figures.

The queries must not have two key figure structes, any conditions, exceptions or formulas. The report RSO_RES_QD_FMLMODE (via transaction SE38) can be used to check queries for these
criteria.“

His tests failed, because his queries had formulas and my test query does not. If you create a new query, the parameter FormulaMode will be set to X automaticly for old query you have to
use the program RSO_RES_QD_FMLMODE to set it. Now it works if you don’t have any conditions, exceptions or formulas in it.

So the summary is no new functions from SAP aren’t intuitive and we have to read the manual.
😉

Thanks to Jean-Pierre for testing and the solution.

These posts might also be interesting:

• Analysis Office Restrictions
• Analysis Office Launching Workbooks from BIP with variables
• Analysis Office Filter by Member Attribute
• Analysis Office Hide Customize User Interface

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It is a little late for Analysis Office 2.7 SP2 but SAP just delivered Patch 1 so I can write a short
note about it. Finaly SAP give you the option to Create a Web Application in Lumira Designer. But if you installed SAP Design Studio an SAP Lumira Designer, it
always opens Design Studio. Analysis Office doesn’t care if you first install Lumira or Design Studio. Design Studio always wins. At the moment there is no setting like the
DefaultBWQueryDesigner for the old BEx Query Designer or the new Eclipse Query Designer.

Patch 1 also fixes some little bugs.

•  Analysis for Office: Instead of the document description the document name is displayed as title in Excel for documents form the BW platform (s-note 2640073)
• Converting BEx workbook with BExGetCellData formulas shows error message (s-note 2709536)
• Search in Filter Dialog takes long for compound dimension (s-note 2695275)
• Selector Search Performance – Limitation of fetched members from backend (s-note 2711919)

I think it is nothing spectacular but it is maintenance.

These posts might also be interesting:

• What’s new in Analysis Office 2.6 SP1
• Analysis Office 2.6 is available
• Analysis Office 2.7 SP1 is available
• Analysis Office 2.3 is available

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