Hi fellow BPC experts,
I'm preparing a rather comprehensive validation report for a client where I need to apply native Excel conditional formatting, so Excel will highlight areas of attention with red color using certain validation rules. Well, this is all fine and BPC is, as you all know, designed to co-operate with native Excel functionality. At the same time I'm using the EPMFormattingSheet as I want the report to look professional. So, in order to get these to functionalities to co-work I have to untick 'Clear Report Format before Applying Dynamic Formatting' under the Formatting tab in Sheet Options. Otherwise the EPM client will wipe my validation rules within Conditional Formatting. Furthermore, I perform a BPC worksheet protection to users cannot mess up things unintentionally (I don't expect this to be impacting though).
Saved, and before closing the workbook:
Okay, so here is the problem: I create all my validation rules, untick 'Clear Report Format before Applying Dynamic Formatting' all the places where it is needed, password protect the individual sheets and test that everything works as I expect. Then I save my workbook. However, when I re-open the workbook all the sheets within the workbook now have a tick in Clear Report Format before Applying Dynamic Formatting', which will ruin all the validation rules set up with native Excel.
After opening the workbook again:
My key questions to my fellow experts:
- Has anyone encountered the same problem?
- Have I missed a setting somewhere or can we agree that this is a bug that must be fixed by SAP?
As always: thank you for taking your time to read this issue. I hope you also will benefit from it learning-wise.
Best regards,
Kim Vittrup
Setup:
EPM 13 Patch 1
Office 2010