Category Archives: Miscelleneaous
Design Studio will not start up
Yesterday it happended a lot that my Design Studio would not start, the error log showed: !MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: “org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench”. Even the logon screen for BO server did not come up. Solution to this is: … Continue reading
Tableau: Relative Date Filter over year change
In case you want to compare years when filtering on last x weeks and have the year comparison over the year change (week 53 and week 1), you can’t use a relative date calculated field filter as this method transforms … Continue reading
Do you know these tricks?
During the last couple of months I have discovered some usefull tricks, which in turn are too small for a post on its own, so I have combined them into this one. Formula for calculating the maximum scale for chart … Continue reading
“Empty” value in optional prompt in Bex query
I finally found the solution for the issue with the optional prompts and the empty value string when connecting through BICS to a Bex query. Unfortunately BW does not view the Excel formula =”” as an empty string as thus … Continue reading
19 Beer Infographics To Make You See Double
It is just that my current project is at a beer company that I would like to share this post with you by by Drew Skau. He created 19 Infographics about the topic of beer. http://blog.visual.ly/best-beer-infographics-and-data-visualizations/
Values send as text by BIWS connection
I have spend some frustating hours trying to figure out, why my number format did not work properly in my preview mode. Data was brought in the dashboard by BIWS connection. I thought it had to do with the locale, … Continue reading
