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Sep 08, 2023 at 03:18 PM

Webi, Crystal or SDK - Render existing PDF File or PDF BLOB inside of Webi or Crystal

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Is there a way to take an existing PDF file or PDF Blob from a database, and have that PDF render inside a report (Webi Report or Crystal Report)?

I found that the following article talks about using Blobs within a Universe, but it does not say anything about rendering those Blobs.
https://blogs.sap.com/2013/06/12/universe-objects-on-clobsblobs/

I found the following forum threads that say that crystal reports only supports image based Blobs, it does not say anything about if it's possible using Webi.

https://answers.sap.com/questions/8836052/crystal-reprots-and-blob-data-type-and-pdf.html
https://answers.sap.com/questions/9604681/view-pdf-in-crystal-report-from-blob-file.html
https://answers.sap.com/questions/11689345/how-to-insertdisplay-a-blob-fieldpdf-from-oracle-1.html

In the following forum thread someone suggested using the SDK to do this.
https://answers.sap.com/questions/8095844/bo-xi-31-and-blob.html
Is this possible using the SDK, if so, can someone elaborate? I did not see anything in the SDK documentation that talks about rendering a PDF blob in a report.

Thank you, Robert.