Web Intelligence 4.0 SP05 What's New

Web Intelligence 4.0 SP5

What’s new?

October 30th, 2012

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Web Intelligence 4.0 Service Pack 5 Quality, Usability and Stability Improvements

PLANNED INNOVATIONS

Continuous improvement is our first focus. This deals with global application stability, enhancements for

most used interactions, and performance.

Web Intelligence performance on BW improvement

Query browsing

Query stripping default value

BEx Hierarchy management

Differentiate version dependent hierarchies

Level selection enhancements

Chart layout improvement

Wrap text on Pie chart data labels


Performance

Refresh workflow improvements

Less round trip to define required variable values

Query Browsing

Reduced time to retrieve Bex queries referenced by a given connection


Expand to Level

By default, the retrieved data for hierarchies are limited to the depth level indicated

by the “Expand to level” value in the Bex query

In BI 4.0 SP5, IT can change this behavior in the bootstrap command line of the

Adaptive Processing Server by adding a new parameter

-Dsap.sl.bics.expandToLevel=n

When set, Web Intelligence retrieves the data from the root to the nth depth level

Warning

By setting a value too high, Web Intelligence will retrieve the entire hierarchy data

which will have an important impact on the performance and stability of the system.

Recommendation

Report creator should always indicate explicitly the number of the hierarchy levels

they want to retrieve while designing their report queries

Note : n can take any number between 0 to 99

If n=0 or the command line parameter is not set, then hierarchies will take the « Expand to Level » parameter value into account


How to set the new Parameter in the CMC

In the Central Management Console, logged

with an Administrator account.

Select the entry Servers.

Select the entry Web Intelligence Services in

the Service Categories.

Select the Adaptive Processing Server which

has been configured with the DSL Bridge

Service

In the menu item Properties.

Navigate to the Command Line Parameters

property.

Now add the additional command line:

-Dsap.sl.bics.expandToLevel=7


Differentiate Version Dependent Hierarchies – Query Time

The query designer can differentiate the hierarchies versions.


Differentiate Version Dependent Hierarchies – Report Time

The report displays the hierarchy version that was used at design time


Level Selection – Ordinal (1/2)

Levels are identified by their

ordinals

Benefit: Avoid issues when

level name are translated in

different languages

Note : In this example “Level 03” is preceded by its ordinal “3”


Level Selection – Ordinal (2/2)

The level selection now displays and uses this ordinal


Level Selection

Members selection and levels selection can not be mixed

After selecting all members until a specified named level. It is no longer possible to

select a member which depth is deeper than the previous specified level depth

Note : In this example, after selecting “Select all Members until Named Level -> 2 – Level 02” it is not possible to select Canada or USA


Enable Query Stripping

IN BI 4.0 SP5 , the query stripping query property is enabled by default for

BICS data sources

There is no change for already created queries on BICS


Wrap Text on Pie Chart Data Labels

Data labels on pie chart can be wrapped

for a better layout

Without wrap text:

With wrap text:


Web Intelligence 4.0 Service Pack 5 Developer Support

PLANNED INNOVATIONS

Provide RESTful Web services API for report consumption and scheduling

Raylight RESTful Web services

Document consumption (view, refresh, simple prompt

management)

Document scheduling


Raylight RESTful Web Services

New RESTful Web Services

Goal to replace previous SDK

Incremental delivery with next set of APIs in BI 4.1

Technology agnostic

Can be used from any languages (Java, .Net, etc.)

Can be used from any computer or mobile device

Consistency

Plugged to CYPRESS – BOE Platform REST Web Services which offers the necessary

infrastructure to connect and authenticate user to BOE platform

Consistent with SAP strategic directions for SDK


BI 4.0 SP5 Web Intelligence Raylight SDK High Level Workflows Description

Consume WebI document

Browse CMS to find WebI Documents

Get WebI Document details

Open, Refresh, Save, Close WebI document

Support Prompts, type Text, Numeric, Optional

Export Document, Report, Page of a report in listing or paginated mode [xls, xlsx, pdf, xml (+html for report and page)]

Get list of data providers of a WebI document

Get details of a data provider of a WebI Document

Export data (data provider) as CSV or XML

Purge document

Schedule WebI document

All possible destinations

Main recurrences (Once, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, …)

All possible formats and options

Support of server group

Get details of a schedule

Add new schedule


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