Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Debug Window in SAP BI 4.0


This quick tip is applicable on SAP Business Objects 4.0 Webi and Rich client as well. It enables a hidden debug window to be shown, containg information about the current BO session. It is mainly design to debug when working with the Java SDK but its cool to know that is there even when you dont actually develop with it.




The aforementioned debug window can be shown by holding down left shift and moving cursor down left, just before the tab name.




If you are using webi be sure that you are at design mode before trying to enable debug. At the displayed window you can see:




The first (and most) usefull thing that you can see its the allocated memory and the heap size. This information can be also utilized in sizing endeavors with respect to report data / Server memory allocation.




The report output tab displays the report output as HTML generated by the server.




History information coresponding to the events triggered.






History of user actions on the document






The component-level paint event. This event is a special type which is used to ensure that paint/update method calls are serialized along with the other events delivered from the event queue.
A Paint event procedure is useful if you have output from graphics methods in your code. With a Paint procedure, you can ensure that such output is repainted when necessary.

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