bi-reporting - query properties

8/18/2019 BI-Reporting - Query Properties

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Query Properties

Prepared By..... Sai Krishna Patnam


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A key date, which can berequired by time-dependent characteristics,attributes, and hierarchiesand their nodes for thereport display, can be fixedor defined with a variablerequest at runtime.

You can change thesequence of entry variables.

In addition to the technical name of the querydefinition and the InfoProvider that it is basedon, this tab page gives information about theowner and the person who last changed thequery.



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Display Options:

• Adjust Form atting afterRefreshing

Ensures that the format isautomatically adapted to theupdated query data when the queryis refreshed.

• Hide Repeated KeyValues

Only the first key or description isdisplayed for each characteristicand any additional identical keys ordescriptions are suppressed.

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Display Scaling Factorsfor Key FiguresEnables you to include any scalingfactors defined in the row orcolumn header e.g., *100 EUR).

• Display document linksDisplays document links for InfoProvider data, master data,and metadata.

• Display Drag and Relate LinksEnables you to execute transactions from an SAP R/3 systemor an external system from within the Enterprise Portal.



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Number Format:

• ResultsPosition

Defines the positionin which the resultsarea is displayed:Bottom/Right,Top/Left,Bottom/Left, or

Top/Right .• Display of

/ - S ignsDetermines hownegative values aredisplayed: -,-, or).

• Display orSuppression

of Zero Rowsand

Determines how to display zero values:Display Zeros, Zeros WithoutCurrency/Unit, Suppress Zeros, ShowZeros as user-defined value/text).



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Example query result without active zero suppression :

Example query result with active zero suppression [active (all values = 0)]:

Example query result with active zero suppression [active]:



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• Documents

Displays anexistingdocument orcreates orimports a newdocument fromMicrosoft Word,Microsoft Excel,and so on).

• Release OLE DB for

OLAPUsed to evaluatedata from BW usingthird-party tools.

All characteristicsand key figures inthe query are thentransferred since therelease of thisinterface offers anormalized methodfor accessing BW

data using a relevantfront-endpresentation tool.



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Use the Query Where-Used List to determine allworkbooks which includethe query.



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In o rder to d elete a qu ery ob ject , there mu st b e at least o ne qu ery,

s t ru ctu re , res t r ic ted key f igu re , or c a lcula ted k ey f igure .

Use the Delete button to

remove the query definitionfrom Query Designer.
