Comments on: Business Objects Tips and Tricks for Web Intelligence Reports – October 2009

By: Kumar

Kumar — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:38:22 +0000

This is possible in an indirect way. Create a Xcelsius chart using a Combination Chart with a QaaWS or BI Web Services as data connector. This allows a line and bar diagram to be plotted on the same axis. You can then embed the resulting SWF inside your Webi report. It is little tricky but achievable.

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:14:00 +0000

Hi Farra, Excel is trouble for BO developers and admins. It has become the standard and as a result users hold BO to it. To the best of my knowledge there are no tricks to accomplish what is asked. The chart modules are pretty much “untweakable”.

By: Farra

Farra — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:55:53 +0000

Hi Julian,

One of the requirement from my users is to have a chart, with bar and line at the same axis.

I have told them that we can have the same line and bar in one chart, but they will be in different axis.. they asked me to really look at it as they said they can do it in excel so why not in Webi?

Appreciate if you know any tricks of tips?

Thanks ,
Fara

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:19:24 +0000

Nice question. I have not looked at XI 3.1, but I can tell you that XI R2 was just a raw dump of the data cube so no custom sort definition possible.

By: sreeram

sreeram — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:54:30 +0000

is it possible to apply the sort on csv files in BOXIR3(If i want to export the report to csv file)

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:44:10 +0000

Ram, I just remembered that PDF export sometimes can make things a little bigger than they are otherwise. If my other suggestion doesn’t help, look to any report objects that touch the right or bottom borders. I have seen images grow by almost 30% when the PDF export is generated.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:42:17 +0000

Hi Ram, before export I suggest you go through each page of the report using the “results” view in Java Report Panel. You should see those same blank pages and be able to discover their cause by analyzing them. Click around with your mouse on the blank page and you should find something. In some cases blank pages come from cells that are too long and spill over onto another page. Please update us on what you find.

By: Ram

Ram — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:16:48 +0000

Hi,
I have generated a report in a pdf format.
That pdf has blank pages.
The users doesnt want the blank pages
At the report level how to delete these blank pages?
I need to send the report in pdf without blank pages.
Please advise….

Regards,
Ram

By: Francis

Francis — Sun, 16 May 2010 04:17:41 +0000

Hi Julian,

I like that tip on the use of relative position, it really helps in aligning several reports (or several parts of a report)in a page. I used to have a hard time doing this before. Thanks.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:30:44 +0000

Hi,

@Vamsi: Can you please tell me which versionyou are using

Coz, as far as in my experience with webi – I have used webi in BOXI 3.0 and XI 2 but alerters don’t work with dimensions. It really irritates when you seriously getting on and it stops you.

Vamsi if you can able to use alerters in BOXI, could you please let me know where you have used and how ?

Thanks in Advance
Ravi