Analysis for Office  ·  25. March 2019

    Analysis Office 2.7 SP5 is available

    Since last week SAP published the latest version of Analysis Office 2.7 SP5. I don't know if any other version ever had a service pack so high like the actual version. At this time SAP doesn't offer the newst help file under help.sap.com/boaa. So stay tuned if there is something happening. Here is an overview about what they fixed:

    • ALL: Context Hide and Context Lock issues (s-note 2768898)
    • Workbook is corrupted if contained charts are filtered (s-note 2767246)
    • Errors with SAPSelectMember formula and sheet protection (s-note 2765798)
    • SAP Formulas in Scheduled Workbooks are Displayed as #NAME? in Excel (s-note 2765716)
    • Analysis Office: Exception when a workbook contains combined crosstabs where the master crosstab has no data available (s-note 2765191)
    • BPCNW: HTTP 404 Error when Prompting Password Change in BPC NW 11 (s-note 2763430)
    • Valus of new planning lines are not transferred, if a datasource is set to autorefresh = false (s-note 2762513)
    • Analysis Office: query views not contained in a role are displayed in the role tab of the Select Data Source dialog (s-note 2762494)
    • Analysis Office: router string not used for BW connections maintained on BIP (s-note 2761063)
    • Analysis Office: Error 'Operation aborted due to invalid input' is displayed when no applicable data is found for the query (s-note 2760996)
    • AO: Excel crashes when using shortcut CTRL+S to save workbook which have been opened from the server (s-note 2759142)
    • Data is not removed if Excel Workbook is saved and closed simultaneously (s-note 2757935)
    • Save Workbook cannot be performed for worksheets with Excel Sorting and which don't contain EPM Report (s-note 2756889)
    • Object Id of workbook is not written to RSDDSTAT_OLAP (s-note 2755181)
    • ALL: Edit report with dimensions containing non-contextual relationship (s-note 2753472)
    • ALL:Issues when refreshing EPM reports in Word document (s-note 2752809)
    • Analysis Office: wrong error message 'Data source xxx was not found on system yyy' is displayed (s-note 2752535)
    • Prompts dialog: Variable shows green tick mark despite error messages (s-note 2752045)
    • Waterfall Chart - 'Remove Data Before Saving' does not work (s-note 2751509)
    • Analysis Office: Excel crashes when trying to save a local workbook using Ctrl+S shortcut (s-note 2751426)
    • AO: Improved Third Party Add-In compatibility - Excel crashes when using AO and Third Party Add-Ins at the same time (s-note 2750514)
    • Opening a workbook twice leads to an exception (s-note 2750223)
    • AO formulas not working when refreshing via Workbook_SAP_Initialize event (s-note 2749895)
    • ALL: Offline mode issue when merged cell reference (s-note 2747950)
    • Saving of Workbook fails when Waterfall Chart contains no Title (s-note 2747066)
    • AO 2.x: Member Selector - Searching for member keys with a backslash in it does not work (s-note 2745608)
    • Improvements: performance tooling/ profiling workbook in Analysis Office (s-note 2744828)
    • Analysis Office: connection to BW system fails if message server is maintained on BIP using router syntax (s-note 2744794)
    • AO 2.x: Can't logon with language Basque / Euskara (EU) (s-note 2744455)
    • Could not read grid properties (s-note 2744138)
    • Excel hangs during workbook refresh (s-note 2743853)
    • Added Support for PowerPoint Feature 'Design Ideas' (s-note 2743659)
    • AO: SAC - Versions Tab not displayed when opening a saved workbook that contains a planning enabled model (s-note 2743355)
    • AO 2.7: SAC - Exception when editing cell values while characteristic Versions is in Background Filters (s-note 2743351)
    • ALL: Report Recognition issue (s-note 2743045)
    • AO 2.x: HANA - Member Selector - Searching for a date does not return any results for characteristics of data type "DATE" (s-note 2742728)
    • F4 Help on Input Ready Cells (s-note 2742723)
    • Workbook is corrupted if contained charts are filtered (s-note 2741492)
    • SAPGetData referencing a cell of type numeric (s-note 2741409)
    • Analysis Office: calling SAPSetFilterComponent via Visual Basic throws an exception (s-note 2740920)

    Wow. 😱 That's a lot what SAP fixes with this service pack. Is Analysis Office meanwhile so complex? I hope they get the product a bit more stable again and I am still looking expectant to Analysis Office 2.8

     

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    Comments: 2
    • #1

      moritz (Friday, 29 March 2019 15:34)

      Hi, have you collected any experiences already with this SP? We're on 2.7 SP2 and consider updating.

    • #2

      Tobias (Tuesday, 02 April 2019 20:10)

      Hi Moritz,

      I just installed the new version but I don't have further experience. Maybe you can ask Patrick (@Zisi1990) on twitter, because he test it a lot.