BEx Query Designer

Unit 6: Query Properties

7/17/2007

Query Properties: General

A key date, which can
be required by timedependent
characteristics,
attributes, and
hierarchies and their
nodes for the report
display, can be fixed or
defined with a variable
request at runtime.
You can change the
sequence of entry
variables.
In addition to the technical name of the
query definition and the InfoProvider
that it is based on, this tab page gives
information about the owner and the
person who last changed the query.
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Query Properties: Display

Display Options:
Adjust Formatting
after Refreshing
Ensures that the format is
automatically adapted to the
updated query data when the
query is refreshed.
Hide Repeated Key
Values
Only the first key or
description is displayed for
each characteristic and any
additional identical keys or
descriptions are suppressed.
Display Scaling
Factors for Key
Figures
Enables you to include any
scaling factors defined in the
row or column header (e.g.,
*100 EUR).

Display document links

Displays document links for InfoProvider data,
master data, and metadata.
Display Drag and Relate Links
Enables you to execute transactions from an SAP R/3
system or an external system from within the
Enterprise Portal.
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Query Properties: Display

Number Format:
Results
Position
Defines the
position in which
the results area is
displayed:
Bottom/Right,
Top/Left,
Bottom/Left, or
Top/Right.
Display of
+/- Signs
Determines how
negative values
are displayed:
-<number>,
<number>-, or
(<number>).
Display or

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Query Properties: Display: Zero

Suppression
Example query result without active zero suppression:

Example query result with active zero suppression [active]:

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

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Query Properties: Extended

Documents
Displays an
existing
document or
creates or
imports a new
document
(from Microsoft
Word,
Microsoft
Excel, and so
on).

Release OLE DB
for OLAP
Used to evaluate
data from BW
using third-party
tools.
All characteristics
and key figures in
the query are
then transferred
since the release
of this interface
offers a
normalized
method for
accessing BW
data using a
relevant frontend presentation
tool.
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Query Where-Used List

Use the Query WhereUsed List to determine
all workbooks which
include the query.

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Deleting Query Objects

Use the Delete button
to remove the query
definition from Query
Designer.

Note

In order to delete a query object, there must be at least one

query, structure, restricted key figure, or calculated key
figure.

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