Hi - I have to create a new web intelligence report and would like to use an existing query in another web intelliegence report. Is it possible to copy the query from one to the other? This is in a brand new web intelligence report and not just a new report tab in the old report.
The SDK is getting better. It may be in the future this can be done with a bit of code. Or who knows, maybe SAP will provide it as an out of the box option.
You could see if anyone has raised it as an idea, if not why not create one yourself!
Supposedly with Webi 4 one should be able to copy a table for example to another Webi Document and the underlying query should automatically get copied as well. But… so far I have not seen it work ;(
I tried as well on BI4, and it works only with the Rich Client and for the basic table. And sometimes, it’s not very reliable (error message, multiple data provider created…), but it’s better than nothing
Hi Kenny,
Thanks for detailing this feature as Rich Client funtionality only…
It’s frustrating that the Formatting rules are only editable or able to be created from Rich Client also
Hi Andreas,
Yes, our current version (14.0.5) of BI40 does not support conditional formatting in the web, just in the Rich Client. Which version are you seeing the functionality in
As you know this is a basic ‘feature’ that users are most interested in, it will be good to see it back in the Web version
I don’t have 4.0 running where I’m at now but perhaps you need to go into the preferences in the bi launchpad and change to the java version in web instead of interactive. I can’t remember the terminology but in 3.1 it’s interactive or advanced for webi editing, or rich client of course (desktop)
we tried the same and it works for us as well…it carried the SQL from another report as well.
Use No Universe Option while creating 2nd Report and paste the 1st query table and you will get the table and underlying SQL in the 2nd report…
we are in Business Objects SP5
We have 4.0 SP5. I wanted to share the following related to this:
We got an error when trying the Table copy method to get the Query to another report. So I tried something similar and this worked: I clicked multiple times within the table to make sure all cells were highlighted, did a “Copy”, then went to other report and right-clicked to “Paste” and then “OK”. The data provider showed up just as I wanted to in the other report.
Although the query just had 3 dims in it, it was a Combined Minus query which may be why the simple Table copy didn’t work.