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

Table of Contents1 About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2 About the documentation set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3 New and changed features in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

4 New and changed administration options in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4. . . . . . . . . . 8

5 Changes in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4 SP1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

6 Changes in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4 SP2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

7 Changes in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4 SP4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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Table of Contents

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.

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2 About the documentation setThe documentation set for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, comprises the following guides and online help products:

TipThe 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. The guide is available on the SAP Help Portal.

Online Help

The online help contains the same information as the User Guide. It can be called by pressing the Help button in the Setting group on the Analysis tab. 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.

What's New 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. The guide is available on the SAP Help Portal.

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

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About the documentation set

look and feel. The tutorials are available in the SAP Community Network at http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7679?

refer=product-help .

NoteSAP BusinessObjects Analysis, OLAP edition, although related very closely to SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, has its own documentation set, including its own user guide and online help.

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3 New and changed features in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4You can find more detailed information on the features listed below in the User guide for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office.

Creating and administrating workbooks

You can store workbooks to the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform XI 4.1.

With this platform, you can save Analysis objects as Analysis Workbook and Analysis Presentation. If you open these objects from the BI launch pad, Analysis is started automatically and the data sources are connected.

Refreshing data sources

With the Refresh All icon in the ribbon, you can now refresh the data sources regulary with data from the server.

With the property Reset Data Source on Opening Workbook on the Components tab in the design panel, you can define that the initial state of a query or query view defined in the BEx Query Designer, will be displayed when you open a workbook.

Access Mode for member display

With the access mode, you can define which members of a dimension are dispayed in the in the crosstab or in the Filter by Member dialog. The access mode is only available if you select the check box Allow Access Mode to be Changed in the Advanced Settings dialog.

Calling the BEx Query Designer

You can call the Query Designer from Analysis to check the definition of a query and to change it according to your needs.

Inserting waterfall charts

You can display data of one key figure in a vertical or horizontal waterfall chart. Waterfall charts are specialised bar charts consisting of an initial and final state and delta values showing the changes between the start and end state.

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New and changed features in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4

Working with formulas

The function SAPGetUniformScaling is new. It returns the unit/scaling information for a specific dimension member combination.

Working with macros

The following API methods are changed/enhanced with release 1.4:

● SAPExecuteCommandThe command RefreshData is new.

Working with hierarchies

The different versions of an hierarchy for a dimension are now displayed in the design panel with the version number available in brackets after the hierarchy name.

For time-dependent hierarchies, you can specify wether all time-dependent hierarchies for a dimension should be available in the design panel or only the hierarchy for a selected period. To display all time-dependent hierarchies for a dimension, select the Show All Time-Dependent Hierarchies in Analysis Tab check box in the Advanced Settings dialog.

Additionally, you can activate and deactivate hierarchies in the design panel to switch between hierarchical and flat presentation.

Creating web applications

You can transfer components in an Analysis workbook to the SAP BusinessObject Design Studio to create a web application. You can then modify the web application with the design studio.

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4 New and changed administration options in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4You can find more detailed information on the options listed below in the Administration guide for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office.

Supported BI Platforms

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis 1.4 supports SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1. If you use the 4.1 platform with Analysis 1.4, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 or 3.5 must be installed on the client PC.

Available Settings

The following settings are new:

● ShowQueryDesigner to define if the 'Call Query Designer' icon should be displayed in the ribbon tools group.

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New and changed administration options in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4

5 Changes in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4 SP1 With SP1, the following changes and modifications are available in Analysis 1.4.

Working with formulas

The function SAPListOfMembers has a new parameter: Count. You can use it to specify the number of members that is returned by the formula.

Filtering data

You can filter for one member directly in the crosstab with a double-click on the respective member cell.

This function can be enabled/disabled with the registry setting EnableDoubleClick.

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6 Changes in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4 SP2With SP2, the following changes and modifications are available in Analysis 1.4.

Working with macros

SAPExecuteCommand: The command AutoRefesh is new.

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Changes in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4 SP2

7 Changes in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 1.4 SP4With SP4, the following changes and modifications are available in Analysis 1.4.

Creating and administratin workbooks

You can save and open workbooks in/from SAP Lumira Cloud.

Working with macros

SAPExecuteCommand: The command ShowPrompts is new.

Filtering Data by Member

If a dimension is selected that has more members than defined in the User settings, the filter dialog for mass data is opened. In this dialaog, you initially see the selected members, but you can add all other members of the dimension using hte input help.

The filter dialog for mass data can be disabled with the registry setting EnableMassDataSelector.

Configuration for SAP HANA

To use a local HANA connection, you have to enable SSO in the Windows ODBC Data Source Administrator.

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