Here's an interesting bit of behaviour from the Analysis Ribbon: it appears to grey out and lose functionality (apart from the Display function) when another sheet in the workbook is protected:
If I try to operate a filter I get an error message:
Note, I have not protected the sheet holding the query or protected the workbook. I can understand that I would not be able to perform a "Reset Data Source" if I had. But I don't understand why the functionality would shut down if a different sheet in the workbook is protected. The query output is never going to spill over into that other sheet. (Not to my mind anyway).
Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me? Is this a feature or a bug? We are using SAP BOA 1.4.7.3073
I discovered this because I want to give a workbook to a group of users and I want to give them an instruction sheet with some screenshots. I want to be able to protect this instruction sheet so that they can't alter the content of the instructions but of course I would like them to be able to run the query on the other sheet, operate filters etc. I can probably work around this but it's a bit annoying that I can't seem to protect any other sheet in the workbook without locking down the query.
It would be good to hear of others' experiences of this.
Thanks.