BW BEx Context Menu Functions

SAP Business Explorer Context Menu Functions
Use
The Web items Navigation Block, Table, Chart, List of Exceptions, List of Conditions, and Label have a context menu
that you can call up by clicking on a cell text (characteristic, characteristic value, structural component, description of
an exception, description of a condition) with the right mouse button.
Features
The context menu offers various functions depending on the cell context, the Web item used and the settings of the
Web template in the Web Application Designer.
The basic menu contains a subset of the enhanced menu.
The context menu can contain the following functions:

Back
Choose Back if you want to undo a navigational step in this query view. This takes you back one step to undo your
most recent action.
Back to start
Choose Back to Start if you want to undo all navigational steps in this query view. This will return you to the original
query view.
Calculate result as...
You use this function to recalculate the results rows and single values that are displayed in the query according to the
following criteria:
Summation / Maximum / Minimum / Count All Values/ Count all values < > 0 / Average of All Values / Average of All
Values < > 0 / Standard Deviation / Variance / Suppress Result / First Value / Last Value
You can find additional information under Calculate Results As....
Calculate single values as...
You use this function to recalculate the single values that are displayed in the query according to the following criteria:
Normalize result/ Normalize total result/ Normalize../ Ranked list/ Olympic ranked list
For more information, see Calculate Single Values As....
Cumulated
You use this function to cumulate the individual cells in an area. The first value is added to the second value, the
result is added to the third value, and so on. In the columns, the cells are cumulated from top to bottom, and in the
rows, the cells are cumulated from left to right. With blocks of single values, that is, a drilldown in both the rows and
the columns, the values are cumulated from top to bottom and from left to right.
This function is particularly useful with drilldowns on time characteristics (months, for example). Using
the function Calculating Single Value as → Normalize Results, and Sort → Descending, on the
corresponding value column, you get a cumulated list that is often described as an ABC list.
Drilldown → across or down
For characteristic descriptions (for example, country), you can choose Drill Down → Vertically in the navigation block
or from a label in order to drill down along the axes for the columns or rows.
Export as → CSV file / MS Excel 2000 file
MS Excel 2000 file.
You can export query data to MS Excel 2000.
The query data is embedded in the BEx Analyzer as with queries: The navigation status does not change and the
formatting is transferred. You can see the filter restrictions and the data in the table. Exceptions are highlighted in
color in the same way as they are on the Web.
You can also use the BEx Analyzer BW functions to continue navigating.
CSV file
You can export the query data into a CSV (comma separated value) file.
Unlike exporting to MS Excel 2000, you do not see the numbers in context and you cannot see the filter data. The
query formatting (such as how the exceptions are displayed) is also not transferred to the CSV file.
You can find additional information under Exporting as CSV file/Excel 2000 file.
Filter and Drilldown According to → Characteristic

Choose Filter and Drilldown According to to fix a characteristic to a value in one step (meaning to filter it) and to
drilldown according to another characteristic on the same axis (row axis or column axis).
Choose the function Filter and Drilldown According to → for example, Region for the characteristic value
Germany. The data is filtered for Germany. The characteristic value Germany disappears from the
drilldown. Simultaneously, the characteristic Region is drilled down.
Goto
Choose Goto when you want to access documentation and jump targets using the Report-Report interface. For more
information, see Goto.
Keep filter value
Choose Keep Filter Value if you want to see only the data for a characteristic value. The characteristic value itself is
removed from the drilldown.
For example, in the drilldown, you have the characteristic Country. From the characteristic value
Germany, you choose the function Keep Filter Value. The table data is now filtered for Germany, and the
characteristic value, “Germany” in this case, is no longer displayed in the drilldown. You can only see in
the navigation block or in the filter that the table is filtered for Germany.
Keep filter value on axis
Choose Keep Filter Value on Axis if you only want to see the data for a characteristic value and, at the same time, you
still want to see the characteristic value itself in the drilldown.
Above all, this function is meaningful with the Web items Chart and Map. This is because you can see
for yourself in the chart or map to learn the context in which the data exists, meaning how they were
filtered. You will still be able to interpret the chart / map.
Key figure definition
Choose Key Figure Definition to see how a concrete figure is comprised in your Web application. You can check
whether data has been loaded and analyze errors. For more information, see Key Figure Definition.
Properties
Choose Properties when you want to change different settings for the characteristic or key figure. You can find
additional information under Characteristic Properties and Key Figure Properties.
Query properties
Choose Query Properties when you want to change different settings for the query at run time. For more information,
see Query Properties.
Remove drilldown
Choose Remove Drilldown if you want to remove a characteristic from the drilldown.
Select filter value
Choose Select Filter Value if you want to filter the Web application according to values. For more information, see
Selecting Filter Values.
Sort → Sort ascending / sort descending
You can use this function to sort structural component values by ascending or descending order
This function is only available in the cells of structural components when all structures are fixed to
individual values.
Sort characteristic 1
You can use this function to sort characteristic values or attributes for a drilldown characteristic in descending or
ascending order. You can sort by the key or the name.
Keys are usually sorted according to internal formatting. If you want to sort according to external formatting, you have
to include this formatting with the InfoObject.
In hierarchy lists, the relationship between the upper-level/lower-level nodes is retained in the hierarchy
structures. Lower-level nodes, however, are usually displayed in the sequence in which they appear in
the sort criteria. You use the Sort According to Hierarchy function to restore the original sequence as
determined in the hierarchy definition.
Swap axes
You use this function to swap the axes of the query. If you have characteristics in the rows and key figures in the
columns and you choose Swap Axes, then the key figures are displayed in the rows and the characteristics are
displayed in the columns.
Swap characteristic 1 / structure 1 with → characteristic 2 / structure 2
You can use this function to swap a characteristic / structure with another characteristic / structure.

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The context menu can contain the following functions:

Filter and Drilldown According to → Characteristic

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