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SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft OfficeDocument Version: 2.4 SP1 – 2017-01-31

What's New Guide

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1 About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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

3 Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.1 New and changed administration options in Analysis 2.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63.2 New and changed administration options in Analysis 2.4 SP1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73.3 New chapter on the BPC plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

4 Analysis Plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84.1 What's New in Analysis Plug-in 2.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.2 What's New in Analysis Plug-in 2.4 SP1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

5 Enterprise Performance Management Plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.1 What's New in EPM Plug-in 2.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

6 Business Planning and Consolidation Plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126.1 What's New in BPC Plug-in 2.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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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 set

The 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. There are two user guides for Analysis: the Analysis Plug-in User Guide and the EPM Plug-in User Guide. The guides are available on the SAP Help Portal.

Online Help

The online help contains the same information as the User Guide. It is included in the plug-ins. 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.

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About the documentation set

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

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3 Administration

3.1 New and changed administration options in Analysis 2.4

You can find more detailed information on the options listed below in the Administration guide for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office.

Installation

With the installation of Analysis 2.4, the configuration and setting values of the Analysis plug-in are set to the default values.

Changes made in former installations, for example displaying the planning group in the ribbon, are not adopted automatically.

The user interface is now configured with User Interface Customization availble under File Analysis .

Setting for the Analysis plug-in

The setting DoSelectorHierarchyExplicitSelection is new.

You use this setting to specify the behavior of the Filter By Member dialog for hierarchies.

To create a local SAP HANA connection

The authentication type Automatic is new.

This connection type delegates the authentication process to a browser control. Depending on the server configuration, the browser will use one of the supported authentication methods. In addition to the methods you can select explicitly in Analysis, this connection type supports e.g. identity providers based on SAML standard.

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3.2 New and changed administration options in Analysis 2.4 SP1

Settings for the Analysis Add-in

The following settings are available as of Analysis 2.4 and they are now available in the Administrator guide:

● AppBuilderDefaultProfilePath● AppBuilderUserProfileDirectory● AppBuilderCompanyProfileDirectory● AppBuilderReadOnlyProfileDirectories

Setting for the Analysis plug-in

The following settings are new as of Analysis 2.4 SP1 and available in the Administrator Guide:

● UseDataSourceDeltaUpdate● EnforceDatePickerForCalendarDayVariable

The following setting is new in the Administrator Guide: SetEmptiedDoubleDataCellsToValue0.

3.3 New chapter on the BPC plug-in

You can find more detailed information on the new topics listed below in the Administration guide for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, in a new chapter named Administration for the BPC Plug-in.

● When using embedded models, to be able to work with your activities as of version 2.4, you need to install two specific SAP notes on the BW server.

● You can read the procedure that explains how to create a SAP NetWeaver connection.

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4 Analysis Plug-in

4.1 What's New in Analysis Plug-in 2.4

You can find more detailed information on the features listed below in the User guide for the Analysis Plug-in 2.4.

Launching the Query Designer for editing a data source

With this option in the ribbon, you can now also access the BW Modeling Tools for queries that has been inserted in the current workbook.

Workbook Protection

You can now protect a workbook or a worksheet in Analysis. The concept of protection in Analysis allows you to perform certain Analysis OLAP navigation actions when a protection is defined.

You can protect either a workbook or a worksheet.

To add custom styles to a style set

During the usage of Analysis you can create your own styles as you are used to by working with Excel. These styles could be added to a user-defined style set.

If you create a custom style you will be asked what should happen with these styles while saving a custom style set. There you have the option to insert the corresponding style or let the style set unchanged with regards to the included styles.

Editign crosstabs with Table Design

In the design panel, the rules you created with Table Design are listed by rule type New Lines, Formats, Formulas and Text. You can edit the single rules by selecting a rule and changing the details in the Properties section. Whereas the properties for formats and new lines are the same as in the corresponding dialogs for creating these rules, the properties for formulas offer more detailed options for redefining the formulas.

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Using Variants

Working in document mode, you can now also save variants in documents stored on the BI platform.

Working with hierarchies

Besides using pre-defined hierarchies for certain dimensions, you can now group members together to be listed under a node interactively. If a dimension is displayed with its flat presentation, you can build a Custom Hierarchy to display the members as hierarchical presentation.

This new hierarchy is listed under the hierarchy nodes for the corresponding dimension in the Analysis tab of the Design Panel as it is done for predefined hierarchies. Moreover this hierarchy behaves like the pre-defined ones. You can build several nodes as well as group several nodes to higher nodes.

This function requires BW 7.50 SP6.

Saving comment

You can save comments with a workbook locally or on the BI platform.

Saving comments on the BI platform requires a BI platform 4.2 SP4.

Grouping crosstabs

You can now stick two crosstabs together so that they look and behave as they would be one crosstab. Therefore you have to group theses crosstabs.

With grouping crosstabs, they are moved close together that there is no space in between. Furthermore the row axis is building the common axis of this grouped crosstab. The crosstab from which you trigger the grouping is defined as master and determines the structure of the common crosstab, whereas the dependent crosstab is providing its column axis.

Linking dimensions

You can now link dimensions in a workbook if you use several data sources and you want that a action on a dimension affects the same dimension in other data sources in the same way.

For example, you want to have this dimension to be filtered by the same member or have the same hierarchy drill operation.

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Planning

● new lines: extended value help (with filter taken from cell), autocomplete● new lines: highlighting cells with errors

User Interface Customization

As of version 2.4, you can customize certain user interface areas of Analysis to meet your business needs.

Using profiles, you can hide commands or add groups and commands to the Analysis tab of the Microsoft Excel Ribbon.

In this version:

● You cannot customize user interface areas in the Microsoft PowerPoint edition.● You cannot customize the EPM tab (EPM plug-in) of the Microsoft Excel Ribbon.

The profiles you create are stored at the following location by default : C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\SAP\Cof\User Interface

As an administrator, you can define a specific profile for your company and provide it to your end-users by copying the profile at the following location: C:\ProgramData\SAP\COF\User Interface

To see how you can customize user interface areas using profiles, check out this how-to video: https://youtu.be/X1jXGF8NiFs

4.2 What's New in Analysis Plug-in 2.4 SP1

With SP1, the following changes and modifications are available in Analysis 2.4.

User Interface Customization

A new toolbar enables you to create and delete groups and elements.

You can now reorganize the groups and group elements of the Analysis tab, using the move buttons of the new toolbar, or using drag-and-drop. You can move the groups; you can move the elements inside the same group or move an element from a group to another one.

When creating a toggle button, you can call a macro to get the button state (pressed or not).

You can now insert a menu separator in a split button.

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5 Enterprise Performance Management Plug-in

5.1 What's New in EPM Plug-in 2.4

The What's New information for the EPM plug-in is part of the user guide.

You can find the EPM plug-in user guide on the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/boao.

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6 Business Planning and Consolidation Plug-in

6.1 What's New in BPC Plug-in 2.4

The What's New information for the BPC plug-in is part of the user guide.

You can find the BPC plug-in user guide on the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/boao.

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