Use of BI Documents in BI
Applications
Use
BI applications offer end users a number of options for using documents that were created in the BI system. You can add documents in various formats and versions, link and search them, and display them in Web applications.
Features
In BEx Web applications you can work with documents in the following ways:
● You can access documents of the BI server and documents in the portal
● You can create, edit and call context-sensitive documents for the data of the following BI objects:
○ Metadata: Metadata is data that describes other data.
○ Master data: Master data is data that is not changed for a long period of time and that contains information that is repeatedly used in the same way. The master data of a user in the SAP system contains for example the access authorization to the system or the standard printer.
○ InfoProvider data: InfoProvider data is data that can be evaluated in the BEx. InfoProviders represent views on data.
● You can display the document properties, such as the last person to change the document or the time it was last changed.
● You can access various KM functions, such as Notifications and Ratings.
You can use the Web Items Single Document, List of Documents and Analysis in the BEx Web applications to create, edit and call documents. Web items are objects that either display data in a Web application or are used to design Web applications. Web items provide data in a Web application as HTML. Web items have parameters such as header, width, and height, which can be used to define the appearance of the Web items, as well as their behavior in the Web application.
You can also use the Open Document Browser and Call Dialog for New Document data provider commands for documents to create, edit and call documents.
Single Document
You can represent the contents of a document in a Web Application with the Web item Single Document. The document represented is context-sensitive for the current data. With the context menu you can call the Details dialog box in Knowledge Management (KM) for a document. You can find information about the document and change the document there.
More Information:
List of Documents
Display Documents
The Web item List of Documents displays a list with a number of documents. In this Web item you can display documents using the context menu or create a new document.
Create a New Document
In a Web application with the Web item List of Documentsyou can create documents in various ways: You can add either a locally stored file, a comment, or formatted text as a document.
Analysis Grid
Display Documents
In the analysis grid you can display or create documents using the context menu. To do so, choose Documents → Display Documents.