Using Information Broadcasting
information broadcasting allows you to make BEx objects available to a wide range of users.
Example Scenarios
The example scenarios provide examples of how information broadcasting could be implemented in your company.
More information:Example Scenarios for Information Broadcasting.
Call BEx Broadcaster
You distribute the BEx Objects using BEx Broadcaster or the Broadcasting Wizard. Since information broadcasting is available to a wide range of users, BEx Broadcaster is integrated into all Business Explorer tools and applications. You can broadcast the BEx objects that you have created or analyzed directly to the various user groups.
Start BEx Broadcaster or the broadcasting wizard. Your role will dictate which Business Explorer tools or applications you can call BEx Broadcaster from.
Distribution Options for the Various User Groups
| User Group | Start BEx Broadcaster / Broadcasting Wizard |
|---|---|
| Authors of BEx objects |
When you define queries, reports, or Web applications, you call BEx Broadcaster from BEx Query Designer, BEx Report Designer or BEx Web Application Designer to broadcast the BEx objects that you have created. |
| Knowledge workers |
When you analyze the data in BEx Analyzer workbooks, you call BEx Broadcaster in BEx Analyzer to precalculate and broadcast your workbooks. |
| Information consumers |
In BEx Web applications, you access the Broadcasting Wizard from the Distribute and Export option in the context menu. The Broadcasting Wizard supports you in broadcasting the Web application by e-mail or to the portal by providing step-by-step instructions. In the standard Web template for reports and in BEx Web Analyzer, choose Send to access the Broadcasting Wizard. The Send pushbutton used to broadcast by e-mail can be included in the Information Consumer Pattern using the Broadcasting Wizard. If you want to make settings in addition to the ones offered in the Broadcasting Wizard, you can navigate to BEx Broadcaster to make additional settings. |
More information:Calling BEx Broadcaster
Broadcasting BEx Objects Using BEx Broadcaster
Precalculate queries, query views, Web templates, reports, and workbooks using BEx Broadcaster and broadcast them by e-mail, to the portal or to the printer.
As well as precalculated documents in various formats (HTML, MHTML, ZIP etc.) containing historical data, you can also generate online links.
More information:Broadcasting BEx Objects
Accessing BEx Objects in the SAP Enterprise Portal
If BEx objects has been published in the portal, the distributed precalculated documents with the historical data or online links are available to users in the portal. Based on these documents and links, users in the portal can have discussions or work in collaboration rooms. You can receive notification of each change to a document, for example a new precalculation, and add evaluations, feedback or personal notes to the documents.
In the portal, the ideal way to access BEx objects is through a central entry page (the BEx Portfolio for example). This shows the content of the Knowledge Management folder where you published the content. The Broadcasting layout profile displays content that is especially tailored to the needs of users who work with BEx objects in the portal.
More information:Displaying Folder Contents with the Broadcasting Layout Profile
The Business Explorer portal role illustrates the various options available when working with BEx objects in the portal. Since the Business Explorer portal role contains BEx Web Analyzer and BEx Broadcaster, you can also distribute BEx objects in the portal.
More information:Business Explorer Portal Role