Symptom
- Users encounter intermittent issues when refreshing workbooks in SAP Analysis for Office, edition for SAP Analytics Cloud.
- A live connection is used on the SAC system to access Bex queries.
- Users can connect and create workbooks, but sometimes, they are unable to refresh these workbooks.
- An error message is received when the issue occurs: "Analysis couldn’t retrieve system information for data source '[name] General Query: Purchasing [name]'. Please check if the live data connection to system name is properly configured in your SAP Analytics Cloud tenant
Environment
SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office
Reproducing the Issue
- Open an Excel workbook, navigate to 'Analysis' and 'Select data source for Analysis'.
- Use the SAC connection to https://...and open the live connections.
- Use the connection name and select name as the data source.
- Create the necessary workbook and save it.
- Re-open the workbook at another time.
- Select 'Refresh all'.
- At times, the file is able to connect and refresh, or it fails to refresh and produces the error message.
Cause
Resolution
Replace System as per below blog:
System Replacement - * for Microsoft Office - SAP Community
https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/system-replacement-analysis-for-microsoft-office/ba-p/13534816
See Also
Keywords
SAP Analytics Cloud, Analysis for Office, Workbook Refresh, Live Connection, PRD200, Bex Queries, Intermittent Issue, Error Message, Data Source, ID-114201. , KBA , LOD-ANA-OF-XLA , SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office , Problem
Product
SAP Analytics Cloud all versions