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3479738 - AO Exception when using a negative value for the default number of Preferred Platform

Symptom

You use a negative value for the Analysis Office setting "PreferredPlatform". This leads to an exception.

In the AO Traces you can see the below entries:
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|INFO   |AoPlugin | Preferred Platform: -3 #
|WARN   |AoPlugin | Platform -3 is not contained in GetRecentDataSourceListForPreferredPlatform() #
|FATAL  |AoPlugin | 
General .NET Exception [3328-2def-6c]:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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Environment

  • SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
  • SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office, edition for SAP Analytics Cloud

Product

SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office all versions ; SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office, edition for SAP Analytics Cloud all versions

Keywords

KBA , BI-RA-AO-XLA , Excel Addin , Problem

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