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Resolving BW Error in SAP 7.10

24/02/2011

Infrastructure Services SP

MANJUNATH KARANJI

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What is BW?

In the SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), BEx (Business Explorer) is the reporting

tool used to work with data in the BW database. BEx has a Web-based user interface and is

made up of two components, the BEx browser and the BEx analyzer.

The BEx browser provides an organized interface where a user can access and work with

any type of document assigned to them in the Business Information Warehouse, such as

workbooks, links, and BW Web reports. The BW database itself is segmented into discrete

data areas called Info Cubes that are made up of data and associated metadata. The BEx

analyzer allows the user to examine segmented data in a variety of useful combinations,

for example when comparing financial data for different fiscal years.

The Error and Cause

SAP GUI 7.10 application is deployed to a user machine with all the latest patches and

configuration, all the SAP components work just fine. But one very famous error that an

Application Packager could come across in general is the BEx Analyzer error. This can occur

with machines that are having both Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007. The

most common cause for this is missing interop assemblies for Office. Office interop

assemblies interact with Dot Net Framework and since this application makes use of

Microsoft Excel, it is imperative that these assemblies are present in the machine which has

SAP GUI installed. We will discuss on how to overcome this issue in this article.


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Description

Below is a screenshot which is seen in common where in the user is not able to open BW

Reports.

The screenshot shows that the icon shows up German characters when a user tries to open

the application.


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Solution

As described earlier, Office interop assemblies which interact with Dot Net Framework willbe missing in such scenarios. We need to install these assemblies with the Microsoft office

fix office2003-KB907417-FullFile-ENU. And the BEx Installer has to be triggered after the

installation from C:\Program Files\SAP\Business Explorer\BI\, which will load the add-in

to Excel.

Below is the screenshot showing that the BW error is taken care of and query books can

now be opened without issues.


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Execution

An effective way of executing this would be via scripts (VB Scripts, Wise Scripts or even batchscripts may be used here). A simple script which installs the interop assemblies and triggers

the executable can be incorporated and deployed to the user machines, if we have electronic

software distribution in the environment.

This was one of the most common errors with respect to the SAP application that we came

across in our project and this solution was found by our team, which has been working just

fine for the error described above. Hope this document helps resolving similar errors in

environments where SAP is being used.

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