Function Links

In addition to functions available as pushbuttons in BEx Analyzer, there are also functions you can access using links.

The following functions are available as links:

Filters

Using this link, you can display the filter pane. The characteristics and key figures you can use for filtering are displayed in the filter pane. You can enter characteristic values to be used for filtering for each characteristic used in the data provider.

More information: Restricting Data Using Filter Values

In the filter pane, you can call the Variables screen by using the Variables Screen pushbutton. More information: Working with the Variables Screen

Settings

Using this link, you can access the following functions:

• You can make settings for the table, graphic, and for the data provider used for the ad hoc analysis.
  • Table

    You can make the following settings for the table:

    • Layout

      You can define whether the table rows are to be displayed in alternating styles.

    • Cell-specific settings

      Here, you can set how the exception is visualized and how the document icons are displayed.

    • Data-Specific Settings

      Here, you can define whether to display the scaling factors and recurring texts.

    More information: Analysis

  • Graphic

    You can make the following settings for the graphic:

    • Chart Settings

      Here, you can make settings for the Web item chart associated with the graphic (to select the chart type, for example).

    • Chart Text Settings

      Here, you can make settings related to the chart texts (to overwrite the axis labels, for example).

    • Data-Specific Settings

      Here, you can make settings related to the data (to switch the axis display, for example).

    More information: Chart

  • Data Providers
    • Data Formatting

      You can make various settings for the data provider at runtime. For example, you can decide where the results are displayed in the table.

      More information: Data Provider Properties

    • Size Restriction for Result Sets

      Here, you set the size of the result set. In the dropdown box for this setting, you can choose between the standard number of cells, the maximum number of cells or a user-defined number.

      More information: Setting the Size Restriction for Result Sets

    • Number Format

      Here you define whether the characteristics "+" and "-" are displayed with numbers and how zeroes are displayed.

      More information: Data Provider Properties

• You can also display existing exceptions and conditions for the data provider or define new exceptions and conditions in a step-by-step process:
  • When you choose Inserton the Exceptionstab page, you navigate to a new browser window where you are guided through the process of creating new exceptions. More information: Defining and Changing Exceptions .

    You can display details for existing exceptions, change their status, or delete them.

    Note

    Note the following when saving ad hoc analyses that contain exceptions:

    If you save your analysis as a query view by choosing Save View in the context menu, only the navigational state (and therefore the exception definition without the display) is saved as a new reusable data provider.

    If you save your analysis by choosing Save As, the current view of the data and the display (as well as the display of the exception) are saved. If you display the exception as an icon in the table, for example, this view of the Web application is saved as a bookmark. When you later call this view, the exception is displayed again as an icon in the table.

  • When you choose Inserton the Conditionstab page, you navigate to a new browser window in which you are guided through the process of creating new conditions step by step. More information: Defining and Changing Conditions .

    You can display details for existing conditions, change their status, or delete them.