Open and Save a File from/to a Server

Applies to: Planning and Consolidation connections; SAP BW (INA Provider) connections with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1, version for SAP NetWeaver or higher.

If you use one of the connections listed above, you can use dedicated features to open and save files, using the server folder structure.

The dedicated features are: Start of the navigation path EPM Next navigation step Open End of the navigation path and EPM Save .

Note When using a SAP BW (INA Provider) connection with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1, if an environment and a model are not specified in the connection, the Open and Save features are performed on a default environment and they are available provided that the default environment is activated on the server side.

Note If you do not want to use the server folder structure, you can use the Microsoft Office Excel standard open and save features.

Here are the files that you can open and save:

Using Microsoft Office Excel, you can open and save workbooks containing: reports, input forms, book publication templates and distribution templates.
Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint, you can open and save presentations containing reports.

Note When using Microsoft Office Excel, you can open or save files with the following formats: xls, xlsx (except in Microsoft Office Excel 2003), xlsm, xlt, xltx and xltm.