Web Services SDK

[Former Member]

I have a corporate portal and I am planning to write a code such that the users when they log in to the portal they are able to answer some prompts and then a report gets created using BO and the result is displayed as a graph. Now correct me if I am wrong please I am thinking to use web services SDK or Report Engine SDK kindly suggest which would be the best to use. And also is it actualy possible to get the result as a graph not as a table? I have gone through the samples but still wnted to get a second opinion.

[Former Member]

For the first part of your question, you will need to create the graph in the report. At that point you can have parameters to adjust the data in your report which will subsequently alter your graph as well.

If you use Crystal Reports you can use the Web Services SDK; if you use WebI reports you need to use the Report Engine SDK.

To get your results as a graph, as mentioned above, create the graph first in the report, and then apply parameters to the data that will be going in to the graph; this will show the graph differently depending on the parameter entered by the user.

[Former Member]

Thank you for replying to my post. Well thats the catch i cant have a report sitting already in there. I have to instruct as such that when a user enters his/her elements in the portl then te portal calls for BO and at that instance develops a report and displays it in graph. I had a word with a guy from BO he sugested to use a combinaion of Web Services SDK and Report Engine SDK. Do you think this would be a good approach to obtain the results we are looking for? Please give your inputs as we are about to start development.

[Former Member]

Potentially you could develop a report from scratch. If you choose to use WebI reports you will need to use the Report Engine SDK, and if you use Crystal Reports you will need to use the Report Application Server SDK.

Both API will allow you to add graphs to the reports at runtime. The documentation for both SDK's can be found at http://www.sdn.sap.com in the Business Objects Portal.

The Web Services SDK performs operations on Crystal Report types and doesn't have report modification capabilities; you will need to use one of the two above SDK's to create reports from scratch.

[Former Member]

Alright thank you for the advice. I have started using both the SDK two develop the scripts. I will let you know i i come across any challenges.