Migrate a Report to WebClient

[Former Member]

Hi Guys,

I am a novice in CRM. We have a requirement here where we need to migrate 5 custom reports (SE38 Code) from CRM 5.0 to CRM 2007. I believe the reports will need to be migrated to WebClient interface from the SAP GUI, which is being used at the moment. Could you tell me the procedure to be followed here?

Thanks.

[stephenjohannes · Accepted solution]

Nitin,

Your first option is to see if you can migrate the reports over to your BI system. Then you can link the BI reports back into the CRM system. If this doesn't work, I have a simple solution:

Convert the reports into "simple" standalone BSP applications. Then use the URL launcher to view the "simple" BSP applications.

Alternatively you could create a full fledged BSP-wd component for these reports and use the simple objects layer of genil to retrieve the output.

I'm sure someone else is going to a have a better solution, but these are my first thoughts on how to approach this.

Take care,

Stephen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Stephen,

Thanks a lot.

One more question - I have not worked on BSP. But in case they need to be converted into BSP applications, how much effort would it take? Is it going to be pure coding or some configuration also?

Take care.

[stephenjohannes · Accepted solution]

Munish,

Actually I realized after your latest question is you could setup the ITS server on your system and do launch transaction based display of the reports. That's not really my preferred option because I personally like to avoid use of ITS at all costs.

The ITS option is the only pure configuration option. The other options I gave you would require to do some coding. Now keep in mind if you built your reports in separate layers(mvc style), then you should only need to re-do the output layer and not the data retrieval layer.

Take care,

Stephen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

So basically we would just need to create screens for input and output (in BSP). And in the background the same code would do the job. Is that right?

Thanks.

[stephenjohannes · Accepted solution]

That's the general concept. You should only need to re-do the input/output logic depending on how modular your report was designed in the first place.

Take care,

Stephen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Stephen!