Tasks to Be Performed Once

Further Information

Migration of Web templates

A migration tool is available if you want to migrate Web templates in format SAP BW 3.x to format SAP NetWeaver 2004s.

For more information, see Migration Tool.

Determine the standard Web template for ad hoc analysis and reports

You can use the Standard Web Templates for Ad Hoc Analysis (0ANALYSIS_PATTERN) to display queries from the BEx Query Designer on the Web on an ad hoc basis.

Reports from the Report Designer are displayed on the Web using the Standard Web Template for Reports (0REPORT_TEMPLATE).

Here you can also define other Web templates, such as those that also include your company logo, as standard Web templates. You can also change the delivered standard Web templates to suit your needs.

For more information, see the SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® Reporting-Relevant Settings ® BEx Web ® Set Standard Web Templates.

Determine settings for Web templates

You can set the properties of Web templates for all Web applications in Customizing.

You define these settings in the SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® Reporting-Relevant Settings ® BEx Web ® Determine Settings for Web Templates.

For more information, see Web Template Properties and Web Template Parameters.

Administration of Adobe document services

To create PDF files (for example when creating a print version for Web applications) you have to configure and manage Adobe document services.

For more information, see Adobe Document Services Configuration Guide. You can also find this documentation in the SAP Solution Manager under Solutions ® Basic Configuration ® SAP NetWeaver 2004s ® Usage Type AS Java.

Activate personalization in BEx

Personalization in the Business Explorer allows users to fill variables with user-specific entries, to save user-specific accesses to BI objects for the history view in the BEx open dialog box, and to save user-specific start views for Web applications.

You activate personalization in the SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® Reporting-Relevant Settings ® General Reporting Settings ® Activate Personalization in BEx.   

For more information, see Personalization in BEx

Create external data sources in the system landscape of the portal

So that users can also perform analyses based on multidimensionally stored data from external sources on an ad hoc basis in BEx Web Applications and reports, you have to create the appropriate data sources in the portal system landscape using BI Java Connectors. Business experts can create Web applications and reports in the BEx Web Application Designer and the BEx Report Designer using this data.

You define these settings in the SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® UDI Settings by Purpose ® Integration of BEx Web.

For more information, see Access to External Data Sources.

Tasks to Be Performed More Than Once

Further Information

Mass maintenance and conversion of Web templates

The mass maintenance of Web templates allows you to automatically change multiple Web templates simultaneously. You can simultaneously export or import multiple Web templates and execute simple replacement operations.

For more information, see Mass Maintenance and Conversion of Web Templates.

Set the portal theme

Themes determine the colors and the appearance of the portal desktop. In the portal, BI content is always displayed using the current user theme.

You can set the user theme in system administration.

For more information, see Portal Themes.

Assignment of roles in the portal

You assign users roles for working with BI content in the portal. These are managed by the Portal Content Directory (PCD).

For more information, see Role Assignment.

Maintain sender-recipient mapping

Under SAP Menu ® Business Explorer ® Query ® Jump Targets you make the required settings to be able to connect a query to the report-report interface (RRI).

For more information, see Editing Sender-Recipient Assignments for the RRI in the BI System.

Set intervals and hierarchies for time characteristics

For time characteristics, you can define the time interval that appears in the F4 help for the characteristic values. Generally you make this setting once a year.

You can also determine hierarchies for the time characteristics that you want to use in reporting. The leaves of the hierarchy are then located in the time interval that you have set.

You define these settings in the SAP Reference IMG  ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® Reporting-Relevant Settings ® General Reporting Settings ® Set F4 Help and Hierarchies for Time Characteristics/OLAP Settings.

For more information, see Activating Virtual Time Hierarchies.

Delete query objects

You can delete queries, structures, calculated or restricted key figures, under SAP Menu ® Business Explorer ® Query ® Delete Objects.

For more information, see Deleting Query Objects.

Copy queries between InfoCubes

You can copy queries and their subobjects (structures, calculated key figures and restricted key figures) between various InfoCubes, under SAP Menu ® Business Explorer ® Query ® Copy.

For more information, see Copying Queries Between InfoCubes.

Tasks

Further Information

Monitor BI log files (when using Java components)

The BI log files can be found in the Log Viewer under ./log/Application/BI/*

For more information, see Monitoring and Displaying Log Files.

Reorganization of Bookmarks

You use report RSWR_BOOKMARK_REORG (transaction SA38) to reorganize and delete bookmarks.

Bookmarks are saved navigational states of a Web application. In the BI system they are created, for example, when:

●     You execute the Export and Distribute ® Bookmark function in the context menu of a Web application

●     You personalize Web applications.

For more information, see Reorganizing Bookmarks.