Feature differences between all the Web Intelligence clients in BI4.2 SP06.

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Overview.

The aim of this document is to provide you with an overview of the main functional differences that exist between all the Web Intelligence clients, based on the latest release:  SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 SP06.

The list is not complete: some other minor differences exist.

It concerns following: 

- Web Intelligence HTML client (web);

- Web Intelligence Applet interface (Rich Internet Application);

- Web Intelligence Rich Client (desktop);

 

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Content.

1 - Setting up and using Web Intelligence.

2 - Creating and working with documents.

3 - Building queries.

4 - Creating reports.

5 - Publishng, formatting and sharing reports.

 

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1 - Setting up and using Web Intelligence

Feature	HTML interface	Applet interface	Rich Client
Use Web Intelligence locally and offline			Yes (*)
Use RTL alignment based on the Preferred viewing locale setting		Yes	Yes

(*) You can install "Web Intelligence Rich Client" from a BusinessObjects BI Client 4.1 CD.

2 - Creating and working with documents

Feature	HTML interface	Applet interface	Rich Client
Select a folder in which local documents and universes are stored by default on your local machine		Yes	Yes
Edit and refresh a document using a universe	Yes	Yes	Yes
Refresh a document using a BEx query	Yes	Yes	Yes
Edit a document using a BEx query	Yes	Yes	Yes
Refresh a document using an Advanced Analysis View	Yes	Yes	Yes
Edit a document using an Advanced Analysis View		Yes	Yes
Refresh a document using a text source	Yes (*)	Yes (*)	Yes
Edit a document using a text source	Yes (*)		Yes
Refresh a document using a web service data source		Yes	Yes
Edit a document using a web service data source			Yes
Send a Web Intelligence document to another user in the CMS	Yes	Yes
Send a Web Intelligence document by FTP	Yes	Yes
Export a document as a CSV file	Yes	Yes	Yes
Export a document as a CSV archive file	Yes
Save a document as a CSV archive file		Yes	Yes
Export a document as a PDF, text, Excel or Excel 2007 file	Yes
Save a document as a PDF, text, Excel or Excel 2007 file		Yes	Yes
Print documents to My Favorites folder	Export to PDF first	Yes	Yes
Save a document to the corporate repository	Yes	Yes	Yes
Autosave documents to My Favorites folder	Yes	Yes

(*) If the Text file has previously been copied into the BusinessObjects Enterprise Platform.

3 - Building queries

Feature	HTML interface	Applet interface	Rich Client
Work with hierarchies	Yes	Yes	Yes
Build queries on universes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Select all the members at a level in a hierarchy that is organized into levels	Yes	Yes	Yes
Build queries on Advanced Analysis Views		Yes	Yes
Build queries on Excel files saved locally			Yes
Build queries on Excel files saved to the CMS (*)	Yes	Yes	Yes (**)
Build queries on BEx queries	Yes	Yes	Yes
Build queries on text files	Yes (*)		Yes
Access Data mode		Yes	Yes
Access the Change Source options in the Data Access table	Yes	Yes	Yes
Change the data source of queries based on text and Excel files.	Yes		Yes
For OLAP .unx universes, when filtering on measures, you can only type a constant.		Yes	Yes

(*) New in BI4.1 SP02 : "MS Excel" files have to be exported first into the "BI LaunchPad" for Life Cycle management.
New in BI4.2 SP06 : "TEXT" and "CSV" files have to be exported first into the "BI LaunchPad" for Life Cycle management. 

(**) New in BI4.1 SP02 : the "WebI Rich Client" can perform a Change Data Source for the MS Excel files from "Stored Locally" to "Stored in CMS".

4 - Creating reports

Feature	HTML interface	Applet interface	Rich Client
Access a “Highlight All” button in the “Find” box to highlight all occurrences of a text string in a report page.		Yes	Yes
Apply custom formats to numbers in tables	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create and edit conditional formatting	Yes	Yes	Yes

5 - Publishing, formatting and sharing reports

Feature	HTML interface	Applet interface	Rich Client
Set a hyperlink to another document in the CMS	Yes, with a wizard	Yes, no wizard	Yes, no wizard
Publish content as a web service		Yes	Yes