Question Re: WEBI technical document in Technology Q&A

WEBI technical document

babu_s3 — Wed, 04 May 2022 09:12:16 GMT

Hi experts, as we know we have option to extract a existing universe's technical document from UDT/IDT similarly do we have any option to extract existing WEBI report technical document from launchpad/CMC?

Re: WEBI technical document

DellSC — Wed, 04 May 2022 12:27:15 GMT

Not necessarily from the BI Launchpad or the CMC. However, you can get it through the Webi RESTful web services SDK. The beauty of the RESTful SDK is that it's not tied to any specific programming language - it's all html and either xml or json. There are even tools available that will run RESTful web queries for you.

-Dell

Re: WEBI technical document

babu_s3 — Wed, 04 May 2022 12:46:26 GMT

Thanks a lot for the quick response.

Re: WEBI technical document

babu_s3 — Wed, 11 May 2022 15:53:19 GMT

Hi Dell,

Please help me.

Do we get all detail information like charts, crosstabs, tables, cells, variables with existing format, properties...etc of existing WEBI report when we use Restful web services SDK.

-Babu

Re: WEBI technical document

DellSC — Wed, 11 May 2022 17:40:34 GMT

You can find information about all of the properties that are available through the Webi REST SDK by doing the following:

1. Go to https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_BUSINESSOBJECTS_BUSINESS_INTELLIGENCE_PLATFORM, which is the help documents for the most recent version of BOBJ.

2. To the immediate right of "SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform", use the drop-down to select the version of BOBJ that you're running.

3. Scroll down to the "Development" section and find "SAP Crystal Reports RESTful Web Services Developer Guide" and "SAP BusinessObjects RESTful Web Service SDK User Guide for Web Intelligence and the BI Semantic Layer" - you may have to click on the "View All" button.

These two documents are actually fairly well written and will provide you all of the information you need to get to the data that's available about your reports.

-Dell