User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS EPO 2.4.2 RELEASE NOTES

[. . . ] Business Objects EPO 2. 4. 2 Release Notes Patents Business Objects owns the following U. S. patents, which may cover products that are offered and sold by Business Objects: 5, 555, 403, 6, 247, 008 B1, 6, 578, 027 B2, 6, 490, 593 and 6, 289, 352. Business Objects, the Business Objects logo, Crystal Reports, and Crystal Enterprise are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects SA or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] 2) Key values are now correctly identified if they are in Target Dimensions. (Item names are still flagged if they are valid but from the wrong dimension. ) · Filtering the export of ActivityLineItemValue caused PADModel to crash (4720) (Fixed in EPO Version 2. 3. 1 Patch 231-001) If you tried to export the table ActivityLineItem value with a filter on the Activities or on the Line Items, Model Builder crashed. The message "Please wait" was displayed, and the application wouldn't finish. · Problem with EPOCodeFromName (4713) (Fixed in EPO Version 2. 3. 1 Patch 231-001) The EPOCodeFromName function appeared to return zero when a variable was passed into it, but returned the correct result when a literal was passed into it. Item names containing numbers were being misinterpreted. · Model not fully calculated (4783) (Fixed in EPO Version 2. 3. 1 Patch 231-001) In certain models, the results were never fully calculated. There was always one combination of version and period that was not calculated by these two calculation options: Calculation excluding summary movement values and Reassignment Driver Calculation Option. If you forced the calculation for a particular combination of version and period, then a different combination remained uncalculated. · Models with activity driver rules that reference cross version cost object values only work on single processors (4662) (Fixed in EPO Version 2. 3. 1 Patch 231-001) 32 Business Objects EPO 2. 4. 2 Release Notes Changes for 2. 4. 0 Because a separate thread is used to calculate each Version/Period the system can start a calculation on a version/period that is based on another version/period that is currently being calculated, (but not complete) on another processor. | · Issue with Reassignments (4688) (Fixed in EPO Version 2. 3. 1 Patch 231-001) Services were not being reassigned correctly, and incorrect values were being reported. · Issue with CalculateSlice (4793) (Fixed in EPO Version 2. 3. 1 Patch 231-001) CalculateSlice didn't work correctly with values with TargetActivities or TargetRespCenters. There were critical alerts when they were executed. · Load stored values not working (4805) (Fixed in EPO Version 2. 3. 1 Patch 231-001) When transferring data between certain models, the target model cannot load stored values (ActivityDrivervalue) from the source model. The result is always 0, and 0 stored values are loaded. · Value in a rule disappears after the rule is closed and reopened (4671) (Fixed in EPO Version 2. 3. 1 Patch 231-001) This occurred when the negative value -3 was entered in a Detailed Revenue Rule. If you ran the rule and then closed and reopened the model, the -3 was gone. This only happened with this specific number. The model alerts reported `invalid parameter'. 8. 2. 5 Book Building · Change to totaling to take account of periodic exchange rates (4051) This problem was caused when a model used a periodic exchange rate. The processing has been amended so that this will not impact on totals calculations. The screenshot below shows that prior to the fix, the two line item values of $2000 each, were affected by the periodic exchange rate so that the total was incorrectly displayed as $4007. 5758. The following screenshot shows that the total of the two line item values is now correctly displayed as $4000. · Error when validating a grid formula of this type: 1/(b-c) (4377) This issue arose because the formula, when evaluated, equated to 1/0 which is 'infinity', and was not accepted as a valid formula. However, the formula accepted brackets if a "+" sign was used instead of a "-". It also accepted validation when its value was 1/0, when the "-" sign is not used. For example a/(b+c), where b=0 and c=0, is accepted. However, the formula was not accepted when it was a/(b-c) where b and c are not zeros. Identifiers are now set to be random values so that the chances of accidentally evaluating to give a division by zero are negligible. · Invalid formula in grid when renaming items (3720) When renaming an item used in a formula in a grid, the formula became inactive and displayed the character ( * ) in the grid. Now fixed. · Change to summary screen on Book Publication Wizard (4518) 33 |Business Objects EPO 2. 4. 2 Release Notes Changes for 2. 4. 0 When a user selects a book to publish and then clicks on Next, the Summary Screen is displayed. Previously, this screen was Free Text so a user could type anything in, which could cause problems. This has now been set to read-only. · Problem using "Remove low values" option (4631) In a grid, when using "Remove low values" option with grid values and grid formulas mixed, all rows disappear when selecting the "Preview" tab. This occurs specifically when the formula is the item nearest the axis, and the row/column contains a grid value. [. . . ] This has been resolved for this release. 12. 3 New Documentation The following new documentation was released in version 2. 1. 0 within Predictive Planning / Activity Analysis. 12. 3. 1 EPO Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database User Guide This is a new document, which describes the EPO Database Structure for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. 12. 3. 2 EPO Oracle Database User Guide This is a new document, which describes EPO Oracle Loading Procedures and the EPO Oracle Database Structure. 56 Business Objects Information Resources A| Business Objects Information Resources Documentation and information services A1. Documentation and information services Business Objects offers a full documentation set covering its products and their deployment. Additional support and assistance are also available to help maximize the return on your business intelligence investment. The following sections detail where to get Business Objects documentation and how to use the resources at Business Objects to meet your needs for technical support, education, and consulting. A2. [. . . ]