SAP Webi - Query Filters

Query filters are used to limit the rows returned in a Webi document. Query filters allow you to hide the data that you don’t want to show to specific people and also limit the size of .wid document. When you run a query, it only returns the rows that meet the query filter definition.

Following are the key features used in Query filter −

• You can retrieve data as per specific business requirement.

• You can hide the data that you don’t want specific users to see in a Webi document.

• Limit the size of Webi document of the network and hence provides performance optimization.

Example − Being an Area Sales Manager for NY, you want to see the margin values for your region. Sales universe contains data from all the regions in United States. Also you only want to see data from the stores in NY where the sales margin is greater than 100K USD in the second Quarter (Q2) 2015.

Now to create a Webi document with this information, you have to apply filters on these dimensions - State, Year, and Quarter and Filter on sales margin.

Difference between Query Filters and Report Filters

Query filters are applied in Query Panel and they are used to limit the number of rows from data sources and to return the same in the document.

Report filters are applied at the report level on reports, tables, charts, etc. These filters are not used to limit the data retrieval from the data source and only hide certain values at the report level.

Query Filter Structure

Query filter is applied in this format −

Object (On which filter is applied), Operator (You can use various comparison operators), and Operand.

Operand − You can select from the following list of Operands −

• Constant
• List of Values (LOVs)
• Prompt
• Universe Object
• Result from Other Query

Operators − You can select from the following operators −

• Equal to (=)
• Not Equal to
• Greater than
• Less than
• Greater than Equal to
• Less than Equal to
• Between