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created by Jordan Lazarus on Apr 29, 2012 1:28 PM, last modif ied by Jordan Lazarus on Apr 29, 2012 1:55 PM
This is a very simple document to demonstrate how to use characteristics in a BEx Query as a part of a calculation.
Example: There are two date: Start Date & End Date (characteristics) in the query and we want to use the difference
[End Date - Start Date] in a calculation.

So how to we use a data or any other characteristic in a Formula?
I will explain the same step by step with screenshots.
Here I take an example as a Date.

Step 1: Create a new formula.
Step 2: Create a new Formula Variable.
Step 3: Change the Processing Type to "Replacement Path" and select the characteristic to the characteristic which
Convert a Characteristic into a Key Figure
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we need as a key figure.
Note: Make sure the characteristic or the part of the characteristic which you want to use as a key figure is numeric.
Step 4: Go to the "Replacement Path" tab and Select the "Replace with" value as "Key".
Here in the "Offset Setting", you can specify the offset (position of the character) and the "Offset Length" from where
you want to use the value as a key figure.
Example: Date is "20120415" (YYYYMMDD) and let's say you want to use the "Day" part of the date as a key figure. I.e.
15. So you set the Offset start as 7 and Offset Length as 2. If you to use the whole date as keyfigure, You can use
"Offset Start" as 0 and Offset length as 8.
or
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Products: SAP Business Explorer (BEx)

Step 5: In the formula created in Step 1, insert the formula variable which we created and we have the characteristic
ready to be used as a key figure or for calculations.

We can use the same procedure show above to use any characteristic as a key figure.
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Jayasri Vinoth May 9, 2012 8:02 AM
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Hi,


In the Replacement Tab, under replace with we have 5options. For more clearer explanation about
this you can check out the below link:

Replacement Path: Replacement with a Characteristic Value (SAP Library - BI Suite: Business
Explo...
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Alberto Garcia Aug 29, 2012 9:38 AM
Great article.
I had to modify other things in order to have values displayed, but this helped me a lot!
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Namita Agrawal Aug 29, 2012 2:29 PM
Thank You so much for the demonstration.

This is the exact scenario where I get stuck mostly.

And seriously. this helped me a lot, to get rid of unwanted error messages

Thank You.

Namita Agrawal