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BusinessObjects is a business-intelligence suite from SAP. Only programming related questions are on-topic for Stack Overflow. System administration and customer support questions are off-topic.

BusinessObjects is an integrated, business-intelligence, software suite with components that provide performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis and enterprise information management.

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Static Measures in BusinessObjects 4.1

Is it possible to make a measure in SAP BusinessObjects which allways contains same value, and it does not depend on anything that's been previously selected? This measure has to calculate following: Total Costs / number of departments If it's…
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Why use Business Objects as opposed to SQL/Crystal Reports or Jasper Reports?

Looking at the cost of a license for SAP Business Objects, I am wondering what justifies using it. For appearances sake, it's a combination of MS Access and Crystal Reports with a SQL Server back-end. If I have already deployed such a setup, are…
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Max group value in Webi report

I have a report in Webi 4.0 with Store name and sales revenue per store. I have created a text box and I want to display the Store name with the highest sales revenue. I can get the max value to appear with: =Max([Sales revenue]) IN ([Store…
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static parameter web intelligence BO

I'm new to BO here and was wondering if there is a way to put in a static parameter in a business objects report. For instance, in sql reporting, you can type in static values for a parameter that you cna then pass to the query. is there something…
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WIS 10901 error while refreshing Webi report

While refreshing Webi report I am getting an error: A database error occured. The database error text is: (CS) "Unexpected behavior" . (WIS 10901) All the objects are parsing in the universe and Server is also responding. What can be the possible…
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Creating backup of Report to a specific location using SAP BO SDK

I am trying to backup the reports using SAP BO SDK in C#, but i am not able to figure out as to how to specify a location on disk.
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Lot of errors while converting report from Deski to Webi

I am new to BO and facing following errors while converting reports from deski to webi: Objects cannot be hidden in Web Intelligence documents Page setup options are not implemented in Web Intelligence (First page number, page order, scale, Fit…
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Load Data into Hive from Flat files or existing database

We are setting up Hadoop and Hive in our organization. Also we will be having the sample data created by data generator tool. The data will be around 1 TB. My question is - i have to load that data into Hive and Hadoop. What is the process i need to…
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Java code to get the size of a BusinessObjects Report

I want to get the size of an SAP BusinessObjects report through Java code. My main concern is the size of the data we fetch through query, e.g., select si_id,si_name, si_size from ci_infoobjects where si_kind='webi' How to get the size of particular…
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Business Objects (webi) stuck forever on retrieving data for specific dates

I am very new to BO webintelligence. I am doing a very simple query, retrieve Sales Amount for dates between 2012 and 2013. Just for this simple query when I run it, my BO crashes or gets stuck on "please wait" window. Why is this happening? If I…
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Using "Or" operator in Business Objects (and failing)

This might be/seem like a basic question. Company just moved us to BO and trying to figure out a formula that would be easy in any other language. Can't seem to get the syntax and can't find documentation online. =If([Disposition]=2 **Or…
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Business objects XI 3.1 how to deploy and run the java jar file on to the server

I'm newbie to SAP Business objects XI 3.1. I would like to run the sample java class on the BO XI 3.1 server. when I login to XI 3.1 console, couldn't find a way to deploy the java class and run it on the server. My class is really simple. public…
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Count similar values from one column in Business Objects

I'm using Webi 12.2. How can i count similar values from one column and put the value in the another. Sth like this (column 'Shape' is queried from DB): Count | Shape ---------------------- 2 | Triangle 3 | Circle 3 | Circle 1 …
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I need to Create 3 Variables from 1 Variable SQL Oracle SAP

I’m working on creating three variables in the my Universe. The variables are Applications, Operating System, and Physical Location. The problem I’m running into is that all three of these is pulled from the same table and all of them are within the…
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Customize CSS of default page in SAP Business Objects

I would like to be able to change the colors of a few items, and add a
to the bottom of the default page. Looking to distinguish between DEV / QA / PROD environments with subtle color changes. I guess I am looking for the master/default…
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