The drill option is used to analyze data at different levels. With drilling you can go to the next levels to analyze data in tables, charts, and sections.

You can also specify how drill options will make changes to reports when you perform drilling in Webi. Setting drill options depends on the Web Intelligence interface used.

BI Launchpad
Webi Rich Client

Setting Drill Option

Note that to use drill option, you should have hierarchy defined at Universe level. Once you have hierarchy at Universe, you can add that object to Result objects in Query panel. Once you run the query, the object will be added to the list of available objects in a Webi document.

Drill allows you to move to level up or level down as per the hierarchy in Universe.

To set drill option in a Webi report, go to Analysis tab → Interact → Drill → Start Drill.

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Once you start drill, you can move to the next levels or end drill using the option in the same tab.

Example − Drill on 2015 – the results displayed on the drilled table are Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 for the year 2015. This means that the quarterly values you drilled are filtered by 2015.

You can also take a snapshot of Drill result in a separate report. Use the snapshot option to add a new report with drilled data.

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SAP Webi – Sharing Reports

You can publish a Webi content outside Webi documents by publishing report elements like charts and tables as web services. This is called BI services.

Publishing as Web Services

To publish a Webi document as web services, open the report in Design mode. You can use Publish Content Wizard to publish Webi document. The report should be saved in BI repository to publish as web services.

Select the Report Element you want to publish, right-click and click ‘Publish as Web Service’.

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This will open the Publish Content Wizard → Click ‘Next’.

Publishing Prompts

For web services, you should reproduce prompts multiple times to produce different responses. Select the prompts you want to Publish and click ‘Next’.

If you don’t select any prompts for publishing, web services uses prompt value that was supplied when the document was last refreshed.

Defining Web Services

Before publishing a block as a web service, you use the ‘Define Published Content’ screen in the publish content wizard to name the table, make filters available on the block data, and select the server where the block will be published.

Save and Publish as Web Services

You use the ‘Publish new content’ or ‘Re-publish Existing Content as Web Service’ screen in the Publish Content wizard to save and publish the web service to a host server.

To re-publish an existing web service, select the web service, click ‘Publish’.

To publish a new web service, select the folder where you want to publish the content and click ‘Create to display the Publish Web Service’ dialog box.

Enter the name of the web service in the web service box and add the description → Select Authentication method for the web service from the Authentication list.

Click Ok and it will save and publish the web service.

Choose the web service where you want to publish → Click Finish.

SAP Webi – Merge Dimension

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 the list of available objects.

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Select the unique object from both the queries and click Ok as shown in the following screenshot.

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It will create a Merge Dimension under the list of available objects.

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It allows you to synch both the queries and you can add the objects from both the queries in a single report. Sometimes it doesn’t allow you to add objects in the report from either of the queries because of sync issues. In such a case, you can create a new variable for that object.

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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.

In the Formula tab, select the object from the list of available objects for which you want to create a new variable and click ‘Validate’.

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Once the variable is created for that object, you can drag that object to the report.

So, this brings us to the end of blog.
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