BO: Metadata Search within Universes

[Neil]

Dear BO Experts,

I am currently exploring ways to implement a simple search functionality within our BO environment and need some suggestions to accomplish this.

We have a large number of universes within our environment which are available to the end users, and we would like to make it easier for our business users to search through objects within the universes.

So, for e.g. if the business user would like to find a universe containing the Net Sales measure, he could type this object name in an intranet search page, which lists all the universes containing this object.

I was wondering if the web services SDK could be used to do this, but could not find much information regarding a search API within the SDK. Or not sure if this could be accomplished using the JAVA or the .NET SDK and deployed via the web in any way.

Appreciate any suggestions !

Thanks

Neil

[former_member191664 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Business Object Meta Management(BOMM) would enable a BOXI3.1 user to run metadata search.  You can download it from SAP marketplace on https://websmp101.sap-ag.de/support -> SAP Software download -> A-Z Index -> M -> SBOP

METADATA MGMT XI3.1.

Once installed, you'd need to index the reports, universes, etc, and the business user can login to https://boxihost/bomm/ to run their own metadata search.

Hope this helps,

Jin-Chong

[former_member182521]

Hi Neil,

BOMM comes with separate licensing.

If you are planning for a SDK based approach, You should design the data model to hold the extracted data and a piece of code to extract it from repository.

Regards

Mani

[Neil]

Thanks Mani, Jin-Chong,

I would like to use the SDK, but am trying to understand the best approach to do this.

I can use the SDK to "download" the metadata and then store it in a separate database and then have some kind of an ASP/JSP page to fetch the data from there depending upon the end user input.

But was reading some of the documentation on the JAVA SDK and found a class SearchIndexResponse. Was wondering if its possible to do the search directly on the BO server using this class/service and retrieve the results rather than storing the data separately in a DB.

Thanks,

Neil