Every once and a while I run across a reporting technique that makes me say: Wow – that was really clever. In going through the new charting in BusinessObjects v4.0, I noticed that there was no histogram available. After doing a Google search I found a great article by Alastair Gulland. Alastair uses a combination […]
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WebI Date Conversion
Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to display a date on a report but the date was in date/time format? I run into this all the time when dealing with detailed data from transactions with date time stamps. The best way I’ve found to do it is by converting the value […]
Managing Security Authorizations
A very common question when it comes to SAP BusinessObjects is: How should I manage my SAP BusinessObjects security authorizations? Although that is an extremely broad topic, today I want to discuss the issue of leveraging an external corporate directory to manage user authorizations. NOTE: It’s important to remember that only the user/group membership gets […]
Join the Innovation Party!
Software companies are beginning to give all customers an equal voice and I love it. SAP had launched Idea Place – a great place for you to share you best ideas directly with the product developers. In the past SAP has used user groups, product councils, customer suggestions via technical support, surveys and other methods […]
Date Conversion Made Easy…
Have you ever been using SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence and wanted to turn a prompt from a date time into a date? I do a lot of demos using Microsoft SQL Server and by default Microsoft SQL Server saves everything as a date & time. So what if I don’t want the time? Simply convert the […]