on 01-24-2014 8:31 PM
Some Background:
Office 365 allows you to use the web apps (office 2013) which have reduced functionality. But it also allows you to do a local install of the Office 2013 applications which are full functional. We have struggling to get any help on Excel 2013 and Bex analyzer (7.x). We continue to have issues with Excel 2013.
We have installed the full install from Office 365 and Excel with the BEx add-on enabled crashes Excel 2013. We also installed a MSI Office 2013 version (Not Office 365) and see the same issues.
We have conformed to all the specifications that should allow Excel 2013 to work... IE patch levels, versions, etc.. We have tried SAPGUI 7.2 patch level 10 and now I am trying SAPGUI 7.3 patch level 6. still no luck. see the attached spreadsheet.
We can disable the BEx analyzer add-on in Excle 2013 and Excel won't crash. We enable it and it crashes Excel. We opened a case with Microsoft first and after reviewing they have said they don't support third party add-on's.
Regards,
Julian
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We have resolved one of the issues. The issue was .Net Framework error. We have users who are using Power Query that you can download and add into Excel. If you hare using the old version of Power Query you will receive the error message. We downloaded the latest version of Power Query and it has resolved the BEx crashes with the .Net Framework error. Power Query version 2.9.XXXX.xxxx resolved the issue.
Appartently BEx using some of the same shared DLL's behind the scenes the the update resolved.
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Dear Julian,
Office 365 is not supported since BEx Analyzer requires local installation of Office so Office 365 is not
an option.
and regarding Office 2013, only Office 2013 (32 bit ) is supported. 64 bit version of Office 2013 is
not supported.
Please refer to My KBA 1846536.
1846536 - BEx Analyzer 3.x & 7.x : Support for MS Excel 2013 and Microsoft Windows 8
Also Refer to Note 1425805
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.
Regards,
Arvind
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I found this thread while investigating similar issues. You may find that 722513- Desktop Office Integration: Maintenance information gives you a better idea of what is going on.
FYA - that KBA link is an internal SAP one. Use http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1846536 instead.
hth
1652769 - 730 GUI DVD1 - BI tools - HW\SW requirement
MS 2013 and Office 365 is not supported by SAP it seems even with GUI 7.3.
I advice you to downgrade to MS 2010. This is very much supported by BEx.
SAP Note: 1085218 can also be checked
Compatibility of Microsoft Operating Systems and Office Products
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