SAP BI 4.3 - BI Workspaces - Web Page Module deprecated?

[alfons_gonzalez]

Hi,

We are just testing on a sandbox the behaviour of 4.3 on our current system. One of the things that has raised my attention is the fact that it is possible to open "legacy" BI workspaces (created on 4.2 SP7) which does contain the Web Page Module. The problem is that it looks like that on 4.3 this module has been deprecated and only 3 modules are now supported (https://help.sap.com/viewer/5c070bfe96f44d05bbc4ff98ffb09035/4.3/en-US/4590a3046e041014910aba7db0e91...)

• Navigation List
• Text module
• Viewer

On 4.2 SPx we used a BI Workspace as BU Launchpad landing page. This workspace included a web page module linked to a HTML pag.

How to reproduce a similar behaviour now in 4.3 without the Web Page module?

Thanks,

Alfons

[jean-didier_friteau]

Still not available with the last SP2 version. any news for SP3 ?

[ayman_salem]

see "SAP Business Intelligence Suite Release Restrictions" Guide

https://help.sap.com/viewer/53bc7eda3cf7470199ce18aa970117cf/4.3/en-US/01c6817b897246449799160d8afa0...

[alfons_gonzalez]

Hi Tammy,

These statements are only partially "true". We have checked that it's possible to open an edit a previous workspace but you can't do anything with it on some cases. E.g: if your previous BI workspace does contain a Web Module you can not edit it (simply deleting it)

This blog clarifies following:

Fiori BI Workspace continues to retain most of the legacy features of BI Workspace, to list a few:

• Content Linking
• Tabs and Subtabs
• View Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and Lumira documents
• BI Workspace Templates
• Navigation List and Viewer

You can continue to view and edit BI Workspaces created in previous versions of BI 4.x in new BI Workspace with some limitations.

So, it looks like that any module not included in this list is not longer supported on BI workspaces.(you can view it but not create it again)

Regards,

Alfons

[TammyPowlas]

Hello Alfons - I found this blog from SAP: https://blogs.sap.com/2020/06/30/sap-businessobjects-bi-4.3-whats-new/

It says "

BI Workspace

– Now you can create new BI Workspace in BI Launchpad

BI Workspace allows you to organize and display different BI platform content, such as Web Intelligence documents, Crystal Reports, Lumira Documents, Modules, Hyperlinks and other agnostic content like Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel etc. BI Workspace allows you to view, analyze and manage complex data effectively with high visibility of your organization in one view.

In BI 4.3 the enhancements with respect to BI Workspace are as follows:

• Opendoc link of BI Workspace object launches it in Fiorified BI Launchpad
• You can also view and edit the BI Workspaces created in previous versions BI 4.2 or BI 4.1
• Enriched Text Module through which you can have Rich formatted text including hyperlinks thus avoids the need for Web page module hence it is unsupported in BI 4.3" Source: SAP

I hope this helps