Day: January 9, 2018

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Hello everyone,

We understand that some customers may implement SAP notes to use a solution because they cannot wait for upgrading to a new support package. The eDocument for Taiwan solution may be one of those cases. And during the implementation, you may have a lot of doubts on how to create an IMG structure and insert it to the upper structure. Let’s try this step by step.

1. Run transaction SIMGH.

2. Click the Create IMG Structure button . Enter ‘eDocument Taiwan’ in the Explanatory Text field. Assign the package GLO-EDO-TW and save it.

3. Click the Insert activity as subnode button .

4. Enter ‘EDOTWPROCSSDV’ in the ID field and press Enter. The information will be filled out automatically. Please do not change any data. Otherwise you will change the Customizing activity. This is especially important since the Customizing activity is already in your system after you implement the SAP notes.

5. Click Back and add other Customizing activities in the same steps above.

6. You can adjust the sequence of those Customizing activities by drag-and-drop.

After adding the Customizing activities, please add the Business Add-Ins with the following steps:

1. Click the Insert structure nodes as subnodes button .

2. Enter ‘Business Add-Ins (BAdIs)’ as the Node Text, and click Continue.

3. Follow the steps mentioned above to add the BAdIs under the node ‘Business Add-Ins (BAdIs)’.

Now you can add the eDocument Taiwan structure to the upper eDocument structure using the enhancement ID. Why an enhancement ID? In transaction SIMGH, search for the eDocument structure, and click Display. Click Additional Information -> Additional Information -> Enhancement ID, and you will see that all other countries use an enhancement ID to insert their own IMG structure to the eDocument structure. To add your IMG structure using this enhancement ID, proceed as follows:

1. Run transaction S_IMG_EXTENSION.

2. Enter ‘eDocument’ in the IMG Structure field using F4 help and select ID-SAP_APPL in the Enhancement ID Always remember to search in the Enhancement ID: Original tab first. If the enhancement ID is not there, try the Enhancement ID: Not original tab.

3. Click Enhance Structure.

4. Expand the Country-Specific Settings node and click Spain. You put your Taiwan structure after Spain according to the alphabetical order.

5. Click Edit -> Nodes -> Insert IMG Structure -> On Same Level. Enter ‘Taiwan’ in the Node name field and click the Find structure button.

6. Enter ‘eDocument Taiwan’ in the Title field and click Execute. Select the eDocument Taiwan structure and add it.

7. Save it.

Now your Taiwan structure is ready for use under the eDocument structure. This method of creating an IMG structure and inserting it to the upper structure can be applied to other IMG structures as well. Note that for those IMG structures that do not need enhancement IDs, you can just insert them using transaction SIMGH.

Any doubts or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment below.

Hug,

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I recapped here what is new with Lumira 2.1 and it was GA yesterday.   I started with our overall 2016 ASUG BI webcast statistics:

Forecasting is Back in 2.1

How about adding a time  series chart?

And adding a trendline?

To forecast future periods of webcast attendance, right click and edit the trendline setting:

I can “predict” the next three months of webcasts:

Hopefully it will not trend down as Lumira predicts.  Usually in the middle of the year, around ASUG Annual Conference, attendance at webcasts spikes due to new product announcements.  In the Fall of this year we had two face-to-face events and in those months we typically have fewer webcasts.

Filter by Measure

In Lumira 2.0 you could only filter by dimension, not measure.

In 2.1 you can filter by measure.  Note that filter on measure not available for HANA Online

BW Online End to End

With Lumira 2.1 add-on and BI4.2 SP05, you do not need the Lumira Discovery client to begin visualizations with BW Online data sources

Start with Lumira on the BI Launchpad:

Select SAP BW, and it will recognize the OLAP connections from the CMC:

I am going to select a BEx Query from the SAP NetWeaver Demo model:

You can start building visualizations and charts from the BEx query using the BI Launchpad

You can set up conditional formatting

Set up a rule to as shown below:

If the country equals US, display it in a certain color and apply it

You can set up multiple rules

The above shows the conditional formatting rule applied

Linked Analysis

You can set up linked analysis, to pass the context from one visualization to another

Right click and select Linked Analysis

Setting up a linked analysis from the cross tab to the bar chart, using dimension Country:

Selecting country US from the cross tab displays the California/New York bars of the bar chart:

Enable Ad-Hoc Data Comparison

Another new feature is enable ad-hoc data comparison; you can “lasso” or select the bars to compare

It will give you the summary shown above – the sum of values, average, max, min, etc.

Unified Viewer/Launchpad

Your Lumira document is a tile in the unified Fiori-like launchpad, similar to functionality featured for Web Intelligence in BI4.2 SP4

Please note you must be on BI4.2 SP05

The following notes can provide additional information on the BI4.2 SP5 release content:

2559203 – SAP BI Suite 4.2 SP5 Support Package Update Guide

2559223 – SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite 4.2 SP5 Release Restrictions

2559136 – SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2 SP5 Installation Guides for Windows and Unix

2559176 – SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2 SP5 Upgrade Guide

2559149 – SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite 4.2 SP5 What’s New

Upcoming Items of Interest

You can learn more here:

BI2018

BI+Analytics Conference

Upcoming ASUG BI Webcasts

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