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BEx Analyzer 7.x and MS Office 2013?

Former Member
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Hi,

recently got a question from a customer, if BEx Analyzer / Excel reporting should work together with MS Office 2013?

In quickly set up test environment (MS Office 2013 - 32bit version) it does not work actually.

An Excel process is started in the back ground (task manager) but not Excel window is come up.

I can also not find any information in the world wide web about BEx together with Office 2013. The highest office version comments are available for is 2010.

Question:


  • Does anyone have some experience with MS Office 2013 already?
  • Is Office 2013 officially supported from SAP side?

Thanks a lot

Michael

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Accepted Solutions (1)

arvind_doomra
Active Contributor
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Dear Michael,

Currently Office 2013 is not supported,Support plan for Office 2013 is not released yet,

Note 1652769 will be updated once the office 2013 is supported.

1652769 - 730 GUI DVD1 - BI tools - HW\SW requirements

Regards,

Arvind

Answers (4)

Answers (4)

Former Member
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Hi Michael,

The BEx Analyzer is now compatible with Office 2013.

I am using GUI7.3 build 1362881 patch 1.

BI 7.x Support Package 3.

Revision 699.

I installed to run xPreCalSer730SP03_0-10011800

And

BI730SP03_300-10011800

It's working perfectly.

hugs.

Former Member
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Hi Jefferson,

I had installed the MS Office 2013 but now I had problems with Sap BW.

I had already installed the SAPGUI730 but I can not find the BI 7.x to replace the version BW350.

Can you please send me the file?

Thanks and regards in Advance,

Sérgio

Former Member
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Hi Jefferson,

          i am also using MS office 2013 32 bit & GUI 730. For me also BEx is not working. Please help me out. Below are the details about my GUI.

Release - 730 Final release

File Version - 7300.1.2.1078

Build  - 1377184

Patch Level - 2

Thanks in advance, waiting for your positive reply

Former Member
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Hi Gopala,

Did you get it working? We are exactly with same patch and are not able to get MS office 2013 working for BEX?

Please share your feedback...

Thanks,

Former Member
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Hi Kaur,

            Please check the below mentioned links.

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3278702

http://scn.sap.com/message/14163591

former_member190904
Participant
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Hello,

As I wrote above, you need patch level 3. And 4 is supposedely out too. You might try that one.

We have been working wiith patch level 3 for a few months. It's working fine even though Office 2013 is unacceptably ugly.

Guy

former_member211907
Contributor
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Important note to all as well: Office 2013 MUST be installed as a 32 bit application instead of a 64 bit application. SAP-GUI 7.3 is not planned to support it. Supposedly SAP-GUI 7.4 will be 64 bit capable, but that is some time away.

Former Member
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Hi all,

     Is 64 bit will support for BEx with the below GUI details. I am using MS office 2013 64 bit & GUI 730. For me BEx is not working. Kindly suggest/help me to close this issue.

Release - 730 Final release

File Version - 7300.2.4.1083

Build  - 1407322

Patch Level - 4

Thanks in advance.

arvind_doomra
Active Contributor
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Dear Gopal,

Please refer to note 1652769, it states:
=======
Support to 64 bit versions
All the Operating Systems are supported for both 32 bit version as
well as 64 bit version. But this is not the case for Office versions
now.
Office 64 bit versions are NOT supported for BEx tools for the moment.
=======

Please use bex with office 2013 32 bit version instead.

Regards, Arvind

Former Member
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Hi All,

Does Windows 8 is mandatory for 2013 office for BEx Front end?

We are on Windows 7...

former_member190904
Participant
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Hello Prasanna,

We are on Win7 here and it's working fine.

Have a nice day.

Guy

Former Member
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Thanks for your reply... SAP is suggesting Windows 8 to use Office 2013 (SAP Note -1652769).

Did you find any issues?

former_member190904
Participant
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We have been using it for over a year and there is only one problem so far. Some users when executing some BEX reports, have a blank Excel ribbon when they get their results. It's intermittent. We never raised an issue with SAP.

MartinMaruskin
Active Contributor
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Hi Michael,

If you are having SAP GUI 720 look into note "1425805 - Hardware&Software requirement for BW 7.x Frontend in GUI 720".

MS Office 2013 is supported by Bex tools as of FEP 1000 which is released as of CW 09, 2013.

I assume as of GUI 73 it is supported as probably mentioned in the note 1085218 but note as it self if only internal for the time being.

Cheers, martin

former_member190904
Participant
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Hello Michael,

Even if it's not supported, we tried it last week. At first, Analyzer wouldn't start from the Windows Menu or from RRMX. It finally started from the Portal with some questions about authorizing acces to some directories. We stopped the test there.

Our upgrade project to Win7 and Office 2013 will start in a few months. Hopefully, 2013 will be officially supported with newer OSS Notes and fresh BEX GUI patch.

I might look at it again in two weeks. I'll let you know.

Have fun.

UPDATE 2013-03-12

Look at note 1085218. It says that BEX gui 7.3 patch 300 will support Excel 2013. Available week 11 ... this week !!!

Guy

Former Member
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Hello,

I am waitting for the BEX gui 7.3 patch 300 to support Excel 2013. Note 1085218 doesn´t exists or it´s for internal use only.

Does anybody has more info about it?

Regards,

Elsa

former_member190904
Participant
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Hello Elsa,

I downloaded it yesterday. I'm going to test it today if the crazyness stops 😉

The detail is in note 1726742.

Note 1091323 tells you where to download it from.

Have a good day

Guy

stephen_hobbs2
Active Participant
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Hello, does any one know the compatabilty of BEx 3.5 and Office 13 and/or Windows 8? I have looked at this document Compatibility of Microsoft Operating Systems and Office Products but it doesn't cover Office 2013 or Windows 8.

Thanks and regards in advance,


Stephen

Former Member
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Hi Stephen

Could you get an answer about the compatability of BEx 3.5 and Office 2013? We have the same problem.

Has anybody else an answer?

Thanks and regards

Daniel

stephen_hobbs2
Active Participant
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What GUI version are you on? Do you know that 730 removes all 3.5 front-end tools and you need to apply for customer specific version?

We are still on Windows 7, Offcie 2012...

Former Member
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Hi Stephen

We use GUI Version 730 Patch 4. Yes i know and we use the customer specific version. We use Office 2007 at the moment.

Regards

Daniel

Former Member
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Thanks Arvind!

arvind_doomra
Active Contributor
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Dear Michael,

by the way, assigning points is the way of saying thank you on SCN, even if you choose correct answer or helpful answer,

this thread will be reference to the future.

Regards,

Arvind

Former Member
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sure... sorry Arvind... thanks again for fast support!

Former Member
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Hi Arvind,

Sorry to reply here. I am learning BI and having SAP GUI 7.3 on Windows 8. However, I am not able to locate BEx Analyzer.

Can you please help?


Regards,