Thursday, July 26, 2012

SAP BPC Distribution and Collection:

SAP BPC Distribution and Collection:

1.Excel templates can be distributed to Microsoft office Outlook e-mail address.
2. Excel templates can be distributed to network folders.
3.Distribute data will also collect data from offline templates send it to the database.





* Distribute-Start the distribution wizard
* collect-Start the collection Wizard
*New/Open Template -Create new 
*Save /Save as -Save or copy template
*Validate -Validate the reference workbook
*Change Connection- use this option to select a different connection.


To Distribute the workbooks, the Distribution Wizard is used ,we can select the output type and folder location.




After distribution ,the log is available for review. 

Distribution--->Collect the EPM- ---Collection Wizard  will open...



Either the outlook or local folder is select and then the folder is selected .

E -Mail options

If you want send the workbooks by email ,you must enter the required information about the SMTP server use to send the e-mails in EPM tab options-->User options.

*SMTP Server Address
*Port number 
* Select the authentication type.
   - Anonymous
   -Basic or NTML
*Enable SSL (if needed)





Security:

1.Edit Book and Distribution Templates-This permits a user maintain the templates.
2.Use Offline Distribution- This permits a user to execute the Distribution wizard .
3. Use Offline Collection -This permits a user to execute the collection Wizard

3 comments:

  1. Hello Sasi: We are having an issue where direct distribution is working but when we schedule the distribution it does not work. I can see in the Task scheduler that Task got triggered but we received no e-mail. Would you know why is this happening.

    Thanks.

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  2. Hello,

    I am having the same issue, please share if you have resolved the issue.

    Thanks,
    Ziyad

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