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When you work with input-ready data sources, Analysis offers two different modes: display mode and change mode. You use change mode to enter planning data and to recalculate or save the changed data to the BW system. If a user is working with an input-ready data source in change mode, this data source is locked for the other users. If the user switches to display mode, another user can work with this data source in change mode.

When you open a workbook containing input-ready data sources, the crosstabs of these data sources are displayed in change mode. If you select the check box Switch All Data Sources to Change Mode for Initial Refresh on the components tab in the design panel when saving a workbook, the workbook will be opened in display mode. The data sources will be switched to change mode with the initial refresh automatically.

In change mode, new lines for planning are added to the bottom of the crosstab, and read-only cells of the data source are displayed with different background colors. The Plug-in includes SAP standard styles for the visualization (SAPEditableDataCell, SAPEditiableDataTotalCell, SAPReadonlyDataCell and SAPReadonlyDataTotalCell). You can change the cell styles as required. In display mode, the distinct visualization of input-ready and read-only cells is not visible.

Switch to display mode

You work in a workbook that includes input-ready data sources.

  1. Enter or change planning data.
  2. Choose Display to switch to display mode.
  3. A dialog box asks if you want to save your changes before switching to display mode.

    Press Yes to save your changes or No to discard them.

The data sources are switched to display mode. The distinct visualization of input-ready and read-only cells is not visible any more and the new lines at the bottom of the crosstab are deleted. The data sources can now be used in change mode by another user.

You can also use the PlanDataToDisplayMode command from API method SAPExecuteCommand to switch to display mode.

Switch to change mode

You work in a workbook that includes input-ready data sources. You are currently working in display mode.

  1. Check on the Components tab in the design panel that the correct planning system is connected.
  2. Check on the Components tab in the design panel that the check box Planning: Open Data Source Input-Enabled is selected for the data sources you want to change.
  3. Choose Change to switch to change mode.
All data sources in the workbook that are available in the selected planning system and are selected as input-enabled are switched to change mode. The distinct visualization of input-ready and read-only cells is applied, and the new lines are added at the bottom of the corresponding crosstabs.
Note If a data source is locked by another user, a message is displayed.

You can also use the PlanDataToChangeMode command from API method SAPExecuteCommand to switch to change mode.

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