Webi 4.x tricks : summary
Hi everyone,
I am pleased to share with you some tips on the advanced use of Web Intelligence. These few tutorials allow you to give more value to your existing documents or to come or just to give you ideas for your future designs.
All my tricks are just a focus on some capabilities of the application, if you want more details about what you’re able to do with it, share your thought with me I’ll be happy to talk about it.
All entries are ranked by difficulty and by authors because I spend a lot (lot, lot, lot) of time searching on SCN great tips on Web Intelligence and some good entries are unfortunaltely hidden…so it’s time to raise your hands guys (and girls ).
New features in Web Intelligence 4.2
Performance | Charts & other features |
New WebI feature in BI4.2 – Parallel Queries by Robert Twigg |
How to build a Custom Elements service for SAP Web Intelligence 4.2 by Pascal GAULIN |
New features in Web Intelligence 4.2 SP3
SAP BI 4.2 SP3: What’s New in Web Intelligence by Christian AH-SOON available here SAP BI 4.2 SP3: What’s New in Web Intelligence
Summary
Tricks | Design | Performance | Sizing | Auditing | Following | Debugging |
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Tricks
Designing
This section will help you designing the structure of your Web Intelligence document. You will be able to highlight your data into a Webi document well-designed with some best practices from experts.
Author | Link to document |
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WILLIAM MARCY | Designing smart report with Web Intelligence |
Merlijn Ekkel | Best Practices for Web Intelligence Report Design |
Performance
Challenge accepted ! Once your document is complete and functionnal, think about performance. A well designed document is nothing for user if it opens in 10 minutes. So performance is the key to help users to understand the power of Web Intelligence. Jonathan Brown made a full document containing all tips for Optimizing the Performance of Web Intelligence Documents.Others related documents can be added to this table to find easily how to optimize performance.
One of the big challenge with SAP BusinessObjects on SAP landscape is to get best performances with Web Intelligence based on SAP BW using BICS (Business Intelligence Consumer Service) connection. @kurt.holst gave us a complete overview of best practices using Webi against SAP BW.
Sizing
Author | Link to document |
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Matthew Shaw | Performance Tips: Getting the most out of your Web Intelligence Processing Servers |
Auditing
Author | Link to document |
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Matthew Shaw | WebiAdminTool – Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) – SCN Wiki |
Following
The Web Intelligence Bulletin (this page) is a timely and regularly-updated information source providing links to hot issues, new documentation and upcoming events of interest to Web Intelligence Users and Administrators (extract from the Web Intelligence Bulletin – source : see below).
Author | Link to document |
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Adam Stone & Ted Ueda & Jason Everly & Michael Neville | The WebI Bulletin |
Debugging
A structured introduction and collection of hints, basic product information, best practices and links in the area of Web Intelligence. The goal is to provide end users a basic knowledge package to avoid or solve issues during the day to day business.
Special ovation to Timo Seufert and ALL the BI TEAM HUNGARY for their work knowing that Webi incidents can make you crazy. Good job team !
Additional ressources
You can see more things about Web Intelligence on space dedicated :
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Creating Extensions to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-54507
And more official documentation on Help Portal at :
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.1 – SAP Help Portal Page
One more thing, if you want to index your entry with a “Webi trick”, leave a comment and I’ll add your link ASAP. I’ll update this document frequently with new entries I’ll find out on SCN.
Have fun !
Hi WILLIAM MARCY,
How about adding the below document to this Webi trick list?
Accurately positioned Custom Comments in Column Charts
Thanks,
Mahboob Mohammed
Soon integrated
Hi William,
How about adding the underneath document in your WebI list?
Display numbers in English words
Thank you
Didier
Soon integrated
Hello William,
How about addingDealing with Null Values in a Chart let me know if this is useful.
Regards
Niraj
Thanks!! William and Divya Glad you liked it.
Hello William,
I created a document Displaying Age of person in X Years Y months and Z days from two dates.. that has been useful in most of the cases. Could you please see if this can be added?
Regards
Niraj
I'll have a look soon.
William
Thanks William!!
Hi William,
I created 2 documents that could be interesting to be listed in your document:
Could you please have a look and see if they can be added?
Thanks and regards,
Didier
Nice Work William and guys.
Keep sharing.
This is gonna be really interesting. Will definitely share any ideas or trick that which is not listed.
Regards,
Arun
Hi William,
Check this document which I created a while ago.
Webi tricks to save hour(s) of work (in present & in future)
Thanks,
Mahboob Mohammed
Great list!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Boris
Hi WILLIAM MARCY,
Please check out this blog post and add it to this list, if it's worth it.
Continuous Page Numbering in Multi-tab Webi Document
Thanks,
Mahboob Mohammed
Hi WILLIAM MARCY
Please check out the below blog post.
Conditional font coloring of hyperlinked columns
Thanks,
Mahboob Mohammed
Thx Mohammed. I'll have a look soon.
Hi ,
Please check out this blog post, this is something that people often need. May be, you can add it to this list.
Halfhourly Timestamps in a Chart (Webi)
Thanks,
Mahboob Mohammed
Hi William,
Thanks for creating such a great post,now it's very easy to learn new tricks and get solution of many issues. π π
Regards
Priyal
Hi WILLIAM MARCY,
Check out this blog and hopefully, add it to the list.
Relative positioning of a block w.r.t 2 (or more) blocks OR Container in Webi
Thanks,
Mahbooob Mohammed
Done Mohamed ! Whaaaat a job ! π
Nice document, thanks for sharing. π
Hi WILLIAM MARCY,
Please check out this blog and add it to the list if you think it should be.
Cascading Prompts in Webi, similar to Crystal Reports (NOT Cascading LOVs)
Thanks,
Mahboob Mohammed
Yep, great work. I'll add your entry asap.
Hi William,
Cascading Prompts in Webi, similar to Crystal Reports (NOT Cascading LOVs)Β is waiting to be added. π
Also, I created this Chart Background as Alerter today. Please check it out.
Thanks,
Mahboob Mohammed
Hi WILLIAM MARCY,
Rogerio Plank's below trick can't evade Webi tricks π , please add it to this list.
Using an Interactive InfoGraphic in your WEBI Report
Thanks,
Mahboob Mohammed
Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed for this amazing blog. I really appreciate everyone's effort and contribution to this blog.
Keep up the great work everyone and excellent job by William Marcy in making a platform for all the great minds to come together with all the hidden Webi tricks and tips.
I'm sorry guys if I'm not anymore active on "RIP SCN" but the new "blog" ecosystem is not my cup of tea. All is so much complicated and I don't have time to search, modify or anything else on this new platform. I simply quit.
I'll make some effort to maintain this blog for the community, but it'll be the only things I'll do here.
Hi William,
Would you be able to grant me ability to edit this blog?
Thanks,
Mahboob Mohammed
Yep for sure. I just have to know how I can edit this blog. This is not obvious...
As long as you're the author, you'll see the Edit icon on top, somewhere below the blog heading, but there is no option in the edit screen to add someone else as a Moderator to a blog. I'll try to find that out and let you know. This Webi Tricks is such a great resource, but no activity since the migration to this new portal.
Thanks,
Mahboob Mohammed
Hi,
Its a great effort...
Regards,
shaik