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The aim of this document is to provide you with an overview of the main functional differences that exist between all the Web Intelligence clients, based on the latest release: SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 SP06.
The list is not complete: some other minor differences exist.
It concerns following:
- Web Intelligence HTML client (web);
- Web Intelligence Applet interface (Rich Internet Application);
- Web Intelligence Rich Client (desktop);
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Content.
1 - Setting up and using Web Intelligence.
2 - Creating and working with documents.
3 - Building queries.
4 - Creating reports.
5 - Publishng, formatting and sharing reports.
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1 - Setting up and using Web Intelligence
Feature
HTML interface
Applet interface
Rich Client
Use Web Intelligence locally and offline
Yes (*)
Use RTL alignment based on the Preferred viewing locale setting
Yes
Yes
(*) You can install "Web Intelligence Rich Client" from a BusinessObjects BI Client 4.1 CD.
2 - Creating and working with documents
Feature
HTML interface
Applet interface
Rich Client
Select a folder in which local documents and universes are stored by default on your local machine
Yes
Yes
Edit and refresh a document using a universe
Yes
Yes
Yes
Refresh a document using a BEx query
Yes
Yes
Yes
Edit a document using a BEx query
Yes
Yes
Yes
Refresh a document using an Advanced Analysis View
Yes
Yes
Yes
Edit a document using an Advanced Analysis View
Yes
Yes
Refresh a document using a text source
Yes (*)
Yes (*)
Yes
Edit a document using a text source
Yes (*)
Yes
Refresh a document using a web service data source
Yes
Yes
Edit a document using a web service data source
Yes
Send a Web Intelligence document to another user in the CMS
Yes
Yes
Send a Web Intelligence document by FTP
Yes
Yes
Export a document as a CSV file
Yes
Yes
Yes
Export a document as a CSV archive file
Yes
Save a document as a CSV archive file
Yes
Yes
Export a document as a PDF, text, Excel or Excel 2007 file
Yes
Save a document as a PDF, text, Excel or Excel 2007 file
Yes
Yes
Print documents to My Favorites folder
Export to PDF first
Yes
Yes
Save a document to the corporate repository
Yes
Yes
Yes
Autosave documents to My Favorites folder
Yes
Yes
(*) If the Text file has previously been copied into the BusinessObjects Enterprise Platform.
3 - Building queries
Feature
HTML interface
Applet interface
Rich Client
Work with hierarchies
Yes
Yes
Yes
Build queries on universes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Select all the members at a level in a hierarchy that is organized into levels
Yes
Yes
Yes
Build queries on Advanced Analysis Views
Yes
Yes
Build queries on Excel files saved locally
Yes
Build queries on Excel files saved to the CMS (*)
Yes
Yes
Yes (**)
Build queries on BEx queries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Build queries on text files
Yes (*)
Yes
Access Data mode
Yes
Yes
Access the Change Source options in the Data Access table
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change the data source of queries based on text and Excel files.
Yes
Yes
For OLAP .unx universes, when filtering on measures, you can only type a constant.
Yes
Yes
(*) New in BI4.1 SP02 : "MS Excel" files have to be exported first into the "BI LaunchPad" for Life Cycle management.
New in BI4.2 SP06 : "TEXT" and "CSV" files have to be exported first into the "BI LaunchPad" for Life Cycle management.
(**) New in BI4.1 SP02 : the "WebI Rich Client" can perform a Change Data Source for the MS Excel files from "Stored Locally" to "Stored in CMS".
4 - Creating reports
Feature
HTML interface
Applet interface
Rich Client
Access a “Highlight All” button in the “Find” box to highlight all occurrences of a text string in a report page.
