Contents

Access AfO Workbook locally................................................................................................................2

Access Afo Workbook through mySAC (locally).................................................................................2
Access AfO Workbook directly through SAP Analysis for Office / Excel.............................................5
Access AfO Workbook in Citrix..............................................................................................................8
Access AfO Workbook through Citrix Workspace..............................................................................8
Access AfO Workbook through analysis for Office...........................................................................12
Troubleshooting..................................................................................................................................15

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Access AfO Workbook locally
Access Afo Workbook through mySAC (locally)
Call in your internet explorer EDGE the shortcut mysac/ or https://boehringer-
ingelheim.eu10.sapanalytics.cloud/

Click on the “Files” symbol and select the “Public” folder:

Then the new portal with it’s folder will open:

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(Disclaimer: depending on your user rights and authorizations you will only see the folders
you are allowed to)

Navigate to the workbook you need to access and click on it:

If you don’t know the folder in which the workbook is contained, you can type the workbook
number ore name in the search field and search for it.

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After clicking on workbook a .xlsx file will be created and downloaded.

(Disclaimer: excel should open automatically, if it does not, please click on the file to open it)
Excel opens and the workbook is ready to use.

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Access AfO Workbook directly through SAP Analysis for
Office / Excel
Open Analysis for Office locally from your Windows Start Menu:

An excel file opens. Click on File:

Click on “Analysis” - “Open Workbook” and select “Open an workbook from the SAP Analysis
Cloud Platform”.

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Select the system you want access (normally SAC PROD for productive data)

A window to select the workbooks for opening comes up.

On the first tab the user can search for the workbook if the name (or partial name) is known.

By double clicking on the workbook it is opened.

On the second tab “MyDocuments” the user can navigate through the folders to the
workbook. By double clicking on the workbook it is
opened.
(Disclaimer: depending on your user rights and authorizations you will only see the folders
you are allowed to)

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The workbook is now ready to use.

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Access AfO Workbook in Citrix
Access AfO Workbook through Citrix Workspace

Open Citrix in the Start Menu

… and select MySAC:

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Click on the “Files” symbol and select the “Public” folder:

Then the new portal with it’s folder will open:

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(Disclaimer: depending on your user rights and authorizations you will only see the folders
you are allowed to)

Navigate to the workbook you need to access and click on it:

If you don’t know the folder in which the workbook is contained, you can type the workbook
number ore name in the search field and search for it.

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After clicking on workbook a .xlsx file will be created and downloaded.

Approve your sign in request with your authenticator app:

Excel opens and the workbook is ready to use.

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Access AfO Workbook through analysis for Office
Open Citrix Analysis for Microsoft Excel in the Start Menu

An excel file opens. Click on File:

Click on “Analysis” - “Open Workbook” and select “Open an workbook from the SAP Analysis
Cloud Platform”.

Select the system you want access (normally SAC PROD for productive data)

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A window to select the workbooks for opening comes up.

On the first tab the user can search for the workbook if the name
(or partial name) is known.

By double clicking on the workbook it is opened.

On the second tab “MyDocuments” the user can navigate through the folders to the
workbook. By double clicking on the workbook it is
opened.
(Disclaimer: depending on your user rights and authorizations you will only see the folders
you are allowed to)

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Approve your sign in request with your authenticator app:

The workbook is now ready to use.

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Troubleshooting
SAC System not in the system list to access
1. Open Analysis for Office either on Citrix or locally.
2. “Insert Data Source” and “Select Data Source for Analysis”

3. Skip the Log On to Business Objects

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4. If you don’t have the SAC system installed “Create a new SAP Analytics Cloud
Connection” with the URL
 PROD: https://boehringer-ingelheim.eu10.sapanalytics.cloud/
 DEV: https://boehringer-ingelheim-dev.eu10.sapanalytics.cloud/

5. Two systems will appear for each connection, one to connect to SAC and one to
connect to B4*
through a Live Connection. Open the Live connection one.

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6. And select the BWUNITED connection.
If the data connection’s technical name is not available please click on the right icon
below the X to make it visible.

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7. This will guide you to the Query selection screen.

From here all should work as you are used to. Select or search for a query and let’s
go.

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