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2470823 - Analysis for Office characteristic attributes sorted by technical name

Symptom

Expand a characteristic attribute on the Analysis for Office design panel. The sort will be by the technical name and not by the description.

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Environment

Analysis for Microsoft Office

Reproducing the Issue

1. Open a query in AO

2. Analysis > Display > Show Technical Names

3. Confirm AO sorts the characteristic attributes sorted by the alphabetical order of technical name

Cause

This is the standard behavior.
Analysis for Office will display the same sort displayed by Query Designer/BWMT.

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See Also

The Analysis tab - AO User Guide <Data Source>

Keywords

Analysis, Office, characteristic, attributes, sort, technical name, design, panel, description, query, designer, measures, dimensions, attributes, hierarchies. , KBA , BI-RA-AO-XLA , Excel Addin , BW-BEX-ET-QDEF , Queries (Definition and Modification) , Problem

Product

SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office all versions