1. What are the different versions of Business Objects that you have worked on?

 BO XI R1
 BO XI R2
 BO XI R3
 BO XI R3.1
 BO XI R3.2
In year 2011, BO XI 4.0 was introduced and latest version of the tool is SAP BO 4.2.

2. What are the key differences between BOXI R3 and SAP BO 4.x?
 Deski is not available in BO 4.x

 IDT is introduced to support multiple data sources

 Import Wizard is no longer available in BO 4.x

 Bo 4.x is 6 layered architecture as compared to BOXI R3 5 layer architecture.

3. How do you migrate Deski to Webi reports in Business Objects?

 Using Report Conversion Tool

4. To publish a Webi report created on the top of Universe in BO repository, it should

be created on which connection?
 Secured connection published to Repository

5. What are the differences between Personal, Shared and Secured connections?
A Personal connection is created by one user and cannot be used by other users.
The connection details are stored in PDAC.LSI file.
A shared connection can be used by other users through a shared server. The
connection details are stored in SDAC.LSI file in the Business Objects installation
folder. However one cannot set rights and securities on objects in a shared
connection. Neither can a Universe exported to repository using a shared
connection.
A secured connection overcomes these limitations. Through it rights can be set on
objects and documents. Universes can be exported to the central repository only
through a secured connection. The connection parameters in this case are saved in
the CMS.
6. What is BI Launchpad?
BI Launchpad is a Java or HTML based interface of Business Objects tool to perform
analytical reporting and data analysis. You can set the preference for your BI
Launchpad which determines which tool interface is launched via Launchpad.
Using Web or Internet Application to access WebI interface via BI Launchpad, you
can perform the below tasks −
Create, edit and refresh all the reports in Web Intelligence.
Create and edit all the queries in no data source (Universes) but not BEx queries in
Web application.

7. Explain the architecture of Web Intelligence tool?

It is three layered architecture −
Database layer - This layer defines multiple SAP and non-SAP data sources.
Semantic Layer - This layer defines multidimensional data model.
Presentation Layer - This layer defines where data is presented to end users.
Various data sources can be used to create analytical and ad-hoc reports

8. What are the different application modes that can be used in a Web Intelligence
tool?
There are three different application modes that can be used to build the queries,
create documents and to analyze the reports. When you open an existing reports
below modes are available −
 Data Application Mode
 Reading
 Design

9. To add, delete objects in a report, applying conditional formatting, applying

formulas in report, creating variables, you should open Webi document in which of
the following mode?
Design mode with Data

10. What are the different data sources that you can use to create a new Webi
document?
 Universe
  Flat files in .csv or .xls format
 BEx queries
 Analysis View

11. What is the extension of a Webi document?

 .wid file

12. You have few report created in older versions of Web Intelligence 3.1 and want
to upgrade to 4.x, which tool you should use?
 Using Upgrade Management Tool UMT

13. What is the extension of Universes created in Information Design Tool and UDT?
 .unx- File created with Information Design Tool

 .unv- File created in Universe Design Tool

14. What is a Query panel?

You can select from list of available objects as per your access permissions. You
may not be able to use few of the objects cos of permission.
In query panel, you have Universe outline in left pane and Result objects, query
filters, data preview panels in main pane.

15. Which connection you can use to import all OLAP functionalities from an
InfoCube in SAP BW?
BICS Business Intelligence Consumer Service. BICS connectivity is the
recommended way for BI tools to connect to Business Explorer (BEx) queries on the
SAP NetWeaver BW server.

16. What are the different save as formats supported for a Webi report?
 WID
 PDF
 Excel
 Excel 2007
  CSV Achieve
 TXT File

17. What are classes and subclasses?

Classes are used to group similar objects in a report. A class can contain one or
more subclasses.
Subclasses contains further subcategory of objects in upper level of a class.
Classes are used to organize objects in some logical manner. While creating queries
on Universe you can find the information on objects that you have to use in query.

18. What is difference between members and named set in hierarchies?

Members are defined at different level of hierarchies in a data source.
Example
Consider a Geography hierarchy contain members – “India” at country level and
“Haryana” at State level.
You can also include individual members in query from hierarchy if you don’t want to
add all the members. Named set can be used to define set of members.
A named set is defined as named expression and results a set of members. You can
define named set at Universe level or a relational or OLAP database level.

19. Where do you define hierarchies to use in Webi report?

Universe level

20. How do you use InfoCubes in SAP BW to connect to Webi document?

You can create Webi documents based on BEx (business Exchange Queries)
created by BEx Query Designer which is based on Info Cube in SAP BW system.
You can connect to a BEx query in WebI with use of BICS BI consumer service
connection. You need not to create Universe for BEx queries and all attributes,
hierarchies, dimensions and measures are automatically mapped in WebI document.

21. How do you connect to SQL server to create a Universe to use in a Webi report?
Using a Relational connection created in Universe Designer
22. What are the query filters?
Query filters are used to limit the rows returned in a WebI document. Query filters
allow you to hide the data that you don’t want to show to specific people and also
limit the size of .wid document. When you run a query, it only returns the rows that
meet the query filter definition.
Below are the key features used in Query filter −
You can retrieve data as per specific business requirement.
You can hide the data that you don’t want specific users to see in a WebI document.
Limit the size of WebI document of network and hence provides performance
optimization.
Example − Being an Area Sales Manager for NY, you want to see margin values for
your region and Sales universe contains data from all the regions in United State.
Also you only want to see data from the stores in NY where sales margin is greater
than 100K USD in 2nd Quarter Q2 2015.

23. What is difference between query and report filters?

Query filters are applied in Query Panel and they are used to limit the number of
rows from data sources and to return the same in document.
Report filters are applied at report level on reports, tables, charts, etc. These filters
are not used to limit the data retrieval from the data source and only hide certain
values at report level.

24. Why do we use Prompts? Where do we apply Prompts to use in Webi report?
Prompt is defined as special filter for users which allows them to enter a value every
time data is refreshed in the document.
Using prompts, you have multiple users viewing one document to display different
sub set of data in database. Prompts allow you to retrieve the data from database
and reduce the time.
Prompts are created in Query Panel

25. What is context and how they are created?

Context defines a particular join path between tables or a specific group of joins for a
particular query. Any objects created on a table column which belong to specific
contexts is naturally compatible with all other objects from same contexts.
Contexts may be created using detect contexts feature or manually. They are
generally created based on logical calculation and business requirements, hence the
detect context method is not very effective. To manually create a context Go to Insert
Context, give the context name and select the joins that should be present in the
context. For a universe contexts should be created in a way that all joins(except
shortcut joins) fall in at least one context.

26. What is Aggregate awareness function? Why do we use it?

Aggregate awareness function is used in scenarios where we have same fact tables
in different grains. Using this function we can define only one object for the
measures in the fact tables.
aggregate_aware(highest_level,lower level)
We also need to define dimensions for associated granularities and define their
incompatibilities with the corresponding facts through the aggregate navigation. This
is accesses through Tools → Aggregate Navigation.
Use
They are used to enhance the performance reports by utilizing arrogate tables
available at database and are applied at Universe level as function.

27. What is the use of subquery?

Subqueries provides you a more flexible option to filter the data as compared to an
ordinary query filter. Using Subqueries you can limit the values returned with a
WHERE clause. You can also compare the values of objects in a subquery with the
other objects.
Using Subqueries, you can implement complex logic to limit the size of data which
are not possible to apply with simple query filters.
They are used in Query panel.

28. In Query panel, you can’t see ranking option enabled, what could be the reason?
Database ranking is done by editing the script generated by query. If you database
doesn’t support ranking, then option to create ranking will not highlight in query
panel.
Also note that Ranking can’t be created on hierarchical data.

29. What do you understand by hierarchical data?

Hierarchical data is defined a data with Parent-child relationship and you can
analyze the data at different levels of hierarchy.
All the measures that are associated with hierarchical data are aggregated as per
object level in hierarchy.
Example
Consider a Geography hierarchy, you have Country India and State defined as Delhi.
Now if you use this geographical hierarchy in report and want to analyze Number of
Units sold at each level for different categories, then hierarchies allow you to use
Aggregation at country level and if you drill down to state level, for each state too.

30. What is difference between Break and Sections?

Section breakup the data into multiple cells that are called Section headers and Each
Section header contains a value for dimension and data corresponding to dimension
value.
Break is used divides the data up into one block and each column carries dimension,
attributes and measures and these values are repeated for each other row values in
the block.

31. What is query stripping?

Query stripping feature optimizes the query to fetch only DATA which will be directly
or indirectly rendered or displayed to the User, thus decreasing the response time
and faster display of the report for the user. This feature is only available for OLAP
universes, and it will be greyed out when using any RDBMS universe. It is used in
Query panel.
To Know about Query stripping, you should aware the concept of microcube. Microcube is a kind of
cache and each & every object that are included in your report query will be computed in the
microcube, irrespective of whether they are directly or indirectly used in the final report structure.

When you delete some objects in your report structure, when refreshing the report, it will refresh the
complete microcube. This can result in a performance impact as the data is retrieved by the query
which will not be directly or indirectly used in the report structure.

Query stripping is a feature that will remove unused (the objects which are not present in report
structure) objects from a query automatically to improve performance and reduce the data contained
in the microcube. Query Stripping was originally only available for BICS based connectivity to BEx
queries and later Query Stripping feature is available on XI3.1 SP3 and BI4.0 for Relational database
connections.

Note: BICS based documents, Query Stripping is enabled by default.

1. Enable the Query Striping in Webi report / document properties as mentioned below.
2.  Enable the. Query Striping in Webi report Query panel properties as mentioned below.
Please make sure Query Striping option is enabled in both the places to get proper report
performance of the Webi report. If you are not enabled in any one the place, then you may not get the
benefits of query striping feature.

To validate / check your Query striping enabled properly please go to Query panel and check the
report SQL and you could see the difference as mentioned below.
You can see in the above SQL has been stripped of unused objects and it should refresh without
unused objects.
.
.Please use Query Striping feature in your report and improve the report performance.

32. What are the different chart type in Webi tool?

 Bar
 Box
 Column
 Line
 Map
 Radar
 Pie
  Waterfall

33. Explain the difference between Query filter, Report filter and block filter?
A query filter limits the data returned from the database.
A block filter allows selected data to display in a single block and hides the other
data.
A report filter allows selected data to display in a page and hides the other data. The
report filter applies to all data blocks on the page.

34. When you synchronize two queries from different data sources, what rules must
you respect?
Respect the following rules
Object names can differ.
The data type for the merged objects must be the same.
Data must have the same case because the data provider is case-sensitive.
You can only synchronize on dimensions.
You can only display measures with synchronized dimensions. When you use them
for another purpose, duplicate values appear.

35. You use the MINUS operator to combine queries, what would be the result?
 All records that match the first query condition and not the second condition.

36. What is the use of Conditional formatting in Webi report?

Conditional Formatting is used to highlight some specific values in the report. If you
want you can show specific low or high values with some specific colors. Conditional
formatting can be applied to below elements −
 Rows in horizon tables
 Columns in Vertical tables
 Cells in forms and cross tables
 Sections
 Free Holding Cells
Condition formatting can be used to make these formatting changes −
  Text Color
 Size and Style
 Cell Border
 Color
 Size and Style
 Cell backgrounds
37. How you can add multiple query filters in Query panel?
 By using AND/OR operators

38. What are the different Report filters operators?

 Equal To
 Not Equal To
 Different From Operator
 Greater Than
 Greater Than or Equal To
 Less Than
 Less Than or Equal To
 Between
 Not Between
 In List
 Not In List
 Is Null
 Is Not Null

39. You want to use queries from different data sources in a Webi document. How
you can use this?
 Using Query Merge. This option allows you to merge the data from different
data sources. Assume that you have created Query 1 and Query 2 in Query
Panel. When you combine both the queries in a single WebI report, objects
from both the queries are shown in list of available objects.
40. You want to add a new column in the report based on an existing fact value. How
you can add this functionality?
 Using New Variable

41. What is an input context?

 The input context is the list of dimensions that are included in the calculation
itself.
 R&D
42. What is use of string concatenation?
 Lastname+ “, “ + Firstname

43. What is the use of Nofilter() function?

 To override a report filter or a ranking

44. How do you create a hyperlink in the Web Intelligence Interactive panel?
 By using Create Hyperlink dialog box

45. To allow sync between two queries in Query merger, you use a new variable to
add it to report. What are properties that you need to define to enable sync?
 Enter the Variable name, Qualification as “Detail” and it will add a new field
Associate Dimension. In Associate dimension, select the unique object from
the same query.

46. How do you connect SAP HANA database to Webi document?

 To use HANA tables for report creation, Use Universe Designer to create
Universe using a Relational connection to HANA database.

47. Can you attach a Webi document in mail?

 Yes, by using send by email attachment option

48. You have saved a Webi Report .wid file and send it to other user to make
changes. He is not able to open it and getting access error. How you can resolve
this?
  When you use Save as option, on right side you get many options – Refresh
on open, Permanent Regional formatting, Save for all users, Remove
document Security.

 Select Save for all users’ option while saving the report.

49. In a Webi report, you want to add Radio buttons for end users to quickly view
and analyse the data. Which of the Webi feature support this?
 Input Controls

50. What do you understand by input controls? Can we use input controls on
Geography and Time hierarchy?
 Input controls are used to filter and analyze the report data. You define input
controls using text boxes and radio buttons. Input controls are associated with
report elements like tables and section headers and use control to apply filter
on report elements.

 When you select a value of an input control, it filters the values in report
element that is associated with input control by selected value.

 Input Controls can also be used on hierarchical data.

Row ID Vs Row No