User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS PLANNING EXTENDED 5.4 SP5.3 RELEASE NOTES

[. . . ] SAP is the trademark or registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Business Objects products in this release may contain redistributions of software licensed from third-party contributors. [. . . ] The French version of BusinessObjects Planning Extended 5. 4 is being released simultaneously. Document Release Notes Architecture Guide Installation Guide Description Language List of improvement requests and cor- English rections made Technical architecture and hardware software requirements English How to install and configure the product English English Updating BusinessOb- How to upgrade to this version of the jects Planning Extended product from a previous version Administrator's Guide Information about the product's admin- English istration BusinessObjects Planning Extended Version 5. 4 (5. 3 SP) Release Notes 3 BusinessObjects Planning Extended Version 5. 4 (5. 3 SP) Release Notes What's new in this release You can install the online help using the installation package and access it via the product. Please read the entire document before installing your Business Objects software. After the release of this document, any further issues you need to know about will be added to these release notes in the online version available at: http://support. businessobjects. com/documentation/ Please be sure to consult the release notes online as well as this document to make sure you have the most up-to-date information. What's new in this release SCENARIOCOPY FUNCTION ENHANCED ScenarioCopyEx - this parameter, described in the online help as taking the values CopyEverything and PreserveVariances, also accepts the values DataOnly and AnnotationsOnly. ScenarioCopySelectedPeriods - this parameter, described in the online help as accepting the values CopyEverything and PreserveVariances, also accepts the values DataOnly and AnnotationsOnly. Note: The values DataOnly and AnnotationsOnly are not always available. For instance, they would make no sense for mixed copy operations. SCRIPT SCHEDULING USER INTERFACE ENHANCED When Schedule is selected from the right-click pop-up menu on a script, or when Reschedule is selected from the right-click pop-up menu on a scheduled script in Administrator, there is now a Test button on the "Explicit" page. When enabled, clicking this button displays the new "Visualized Schedule" dialog with the values from the "Explicit" page populated into the Time rule field. Note: The Test button will be grayed out unless the Explicitly define job schedule checkbox is checked. A new menu item, Show Schedule, is now available on the right-click pop-up menu for scheduled scripts in Administrator. When Show Schedule is 4 BusinessObjects Planning Extended Version 5. 4 (5. 3 SP) Release Notes BusinessObjects Planning Extended Version 5. 4 (5. 3 SP) Release Notes What's new in this release selected, the new "Visualized Schedule" dialog is displayed with the values from the script populated into the Time rule field. VISUALIZED SCHEDULE DIALOG With schedule values propagated or manually entered into the Time rule field, click Start to compile the values. Also, all the schedule times for the next year are displayed in the lower half of the dialog. You can repeatedly change values and click Start until you find the desired schedule for your script. The "Visualized Schedule" dialog is a calculation dialog only--the time rules for your job are not updated automatically. Once you've determined the desired time rules for the job, select the contents of the Time rule field and copy it to the clipboard by pressing Ctrl + C. Close the "Visualized Schedule" dialog and paste the values into the Schedule field on the "Explicit" page of the "Schedule" dialog or the "Reschedule" dialog. SCRIPT DEBUGGER A Script Debugging tab is now available in the script editor. A checkmark is displayed beside the menu item indicating the Debug (Read-Only) tab is enabled. Note: Show Debug Window will be disabled if the tabs contain libraries only or if the script or any linked library is protected with an implicit password and the current user does not have rights to see the source code. [. . . ] Unable to install Login Server. 6 BusinessObjects Planning Extended Version 5. 4 (5. 3 SP) Release Notes BusinessObjects Planning Extended Version 5. 4 (5. 3 SP) Release Notes Corrections Issue Number 31255 31274 31319 31322 31338 31342 31343 31344 31345 31385 Description Access violation when drilling down Interest Line by percent (%). Workback in rollup unit with cross scenario and time-based are incorrect. InterModelScenarioCopy function copies onto post_lid=1 and creates duplicate row. [. . . ]