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Definition

BEx themes, based on SAP NetWeaver Portal styles, are shared services across the Business Explorer suite. In BEx Analyzer, they are delivered as a set of Microsoft Excel style definitions for your workbook. Themes provide formatting information such as background color, font, and font size. To display the set of style definitions for a workbook, choose Format → Style from the Microsoft Excel menu. The style templates in Business Explorer are prefixed with SAPBEX*.

Themes are content objects that are stored on the server and that you can activate.  Themes are stylesheets in which you can make important changes to a theme. All workbooks where the theme is used are updated accordingly.

Use

On the Themes tab page, you can make the following settings:

Current Theme

The list of available BEx themes is displayed. If a BEx theme is currently applied to your workbook, it is selected.

New/Delete/Apply/Save

If the following special authorization is assigned to your user name, you can change and save themes on the server: AUTHORITY-CHECK OBJECT 'S_RS_TOOLS' ID 'COMMAND'  FIELD 'THEMES'.

If you have this authorization, these buttons appear:

  • Create a new theme by choosing New.
  • Select a theme from the Current Theme list, and choose Delete to delete it. This deletes your theme locally.
  • Select a theme from the Current Theme list, and choose Apply to apply currently configured styles to it. When you do this, BEx Analyzer reads the Microsoft Excel style definitions of all styles in the workbook that are prefixed with SAPBEX* and stores them in the selected theme. This allows you to edit the styles in Microsoft Excel and then create a theme with these customized styles.
  • To save all the themes to the server, choose Save.

Reapply Theme Before Rendering

Since BEx themes are saved on the server, they can be changed on the back end. Select this flag if you want to retrieve the most up-to-date definition of the style from the server and apply it again.

Apply New Formats Only

Select this flag to update the current workbook with any style that has been added to the theme on the server since the theme was originally applied. If new styles have been added to a theme during a patch release, for example, you can retrieve them from the server with this option.

Do Not Use Any Themes

Select this flag to stop using the selected theme in your workbook.