Impact on BPS after removing Office web component (OWC)

[former_member301123]

Hi all,

We are planning to upgrade from BPS to IP.

I have two questions:

1. We are removing the Office Web Component (OWC), what would be the impact on BPS?

2. Does Integrated planning require OWC for manual planning?

Thanks for all in advance.

Regards,

BI Team.

[gregor_dieckmann · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1 OWC is optional in BPS; it was used in web interfaces, e.g. to do local calculations and formatting.

2 OWC is not used in BW-IP.

BW-IP uses e.g. Analysis Office as a client where one can use Excel features; calculations with business logic can and should be done on the server (planning functions, formulas in queries); BW-IP uses web templates or web applications designed in Design Studio (or Lumira).

Regards,

Gregor

[former_member640225 · Accepted solution]

I am using Excel 2016. Our Custom Planning BSP Application, in few PC we are unable to get Excel Layout. Instead we get error.

Excel OWC Cannot be used.

Can u guide on solution to fix it.

[gregor_dieckmann]

Hi,

check note

1554952 BPS: Support of 3rd Party components

for more information.

Regards,

Gregor

[former_member640225]

Looks like Microsoft has stopped supporting OWC in 2017.

Found that OWC11 was not installed in users system. Got OWC11 installation from another system and installed it in impacted system.

Still issue persists. Do I need to maintain anything post installation?

Is it mandatory, to have an OWC11, to make 'excel in web' work? If not, is there any way to avoid 'OWC cannot be used' error.

Thanks in advance Gregor. Will wait for your reply. Strange is, it works in system installed with SAP GUI 7.5 and not in system installed with SAP GUI 7.6, both having OWC11 installed.