Change log v2025.1 | Enterprise Glossary User Manual

2025.1

The function module for connecting to BW systems has changed. Please have a look here for information on what to do.

Data Origin: We have delivered a field that directly shows the origin of the data at the entity level without going into the data lineage. More information can be found here.

Data Origin field of a Power BI Dashboard showing SAP S/4HANA tables
Buildup of SAP BW Composite Providers. More information can be found here.
Data Lineage and Data Origin for Custom Entities.
Power BI: We now support Power BI with Dashboards, Reports, Paginated Reports and Semantic Models. We provide their relationships to each other, to SAP and to external entities. Data Lineage and Data Origin are available. More information to connect to Power BI can be found here.

Data Lineage of a Power BI Dashboard
Data Lineage and Data Origin information of native HANA entities.

Data Lineage of a Calculation View showing HANA Views
S/4HANA, ERP, ECC: Data Lineage information for S/4HANA objects are now available, especially for CDS objects. You can connect your S/4HANA system and see the Data Lineage down to the source tables. More information to connect to S/4HANA here.

Data Lineage of a BW artifact showing the S/4HANA Data Model
Customization of Home Screen. More information here.
Where Used of BW Variables in SAC Stories.
Use buttons in SAC to directly jump to the enterprise Glossary. More information here.

Update of multiple 3rd party dependencies
Improvements in Search functionality
Smaller UI fixes
Improvements in Data Lineage tab. Added Model nodes for HANA, Custom Entities, S/4HANA and Power BI

ZEILE was not translated to English in BW Queries
Excel Interface: Assignments should apply to all instances of a Field
Missing values in column filter "Modifier" in Custom Entities
Tooltip of Entity Icons empty when using a visitor user
Date filter does not work correctly in Entities Grids
Data Preview button missing for BW Queries and InfoProvider in specific cases
SAP Entities Grid: connection name missing in column in specific cases
Problem if a connection was deleted and a new connection created with exactly the same name
SAP HANA: if we had multiple Calculation Views with the same name but in different schemes only one was synchronized
Icons in Scenario of BW Composite Provider were missing
Option "Exclude private stories" dissappears if you select a non-sac object type in the field "Where Used"
Deleted entities does not longer appear in latest viewed
For local selections with key figures in BW Queries, the wrong template (local selections with characteristics) was applied in some cases. These entities are deleted and re-synchronized.
OPTION_NOT_VALID bug was fixed. Cloud happen in specific behaviors
SAC System Mappings is getting the data now over the Synchronization Service

Error in SAC if no analytical applications are available
Error if the separator | is used in descriptions. By default now ¦ and adjustable in EG
Error regarding SAP Note fixed
Better error handling if AfOs cannot be synchronised

Fixed some potential issues with the BO synchronisation regarding missing AfO workbooks and missing relations to BW Queries.

BO connections can now be mapped to BW connections to ensure that Where-Used analysis works correctly.
Query elements based on InfoSet Fields with ___ (three underscores) are now handled correctly
Query elements in global structures are now shown in BW Queries
Changed the key of DataSource to a combination of technical name and logical system to support multiple source systems on BW systems
Fixed some issues regarding the support of InfoSets

Fixed a bug that could cause missing elements in Queries
Improved the behavior when searching for restrictions especially with leading zeros
Added an option in user profile to display leading zeros
Improved the behavior of scheduled sync jobs when sync service is restarted
Improved the synchronization of BO, SAC and HANA when the sync job has rerstrictions
Improved the behavior of the UI after deleting a connection
Improved the mapping between BO and BW systems

Improved time to load entity titles.
Some icons in Rich Text Editor were not be displayed under certain circumstances.
Improvemnts to the search in context of Business Objects.

BW Queries could not be opened if there are 2 equal attributes of an InfoObject with Query-specific descriptions.

Fixed a behavior where many versions of Custom Entities with linked Entities could prevent that Custom Entity to be published or saved as drafts.