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SAP BO how get report on PDF file

Nov 18, 2016 at 02:21 PM | 140 Views | Last edit Nov 18, 2016 at 02:27 PM 2 rev.

Hello everybody,

i would like to get my report from bo webclient in pdf format .

as you know there is opendocument that can be used by putting

sOutputFormat=P for pdf as explained by the doc ,

but this is providing a html page containing the pdf reader ( the html has encapsulated the pdf )


what can be the solution to get a link getting directly and only the pdf file without clicking on the save as button ?


the save as button is using downloadPDForXLS.jsp ; this function is using the sEntry value as mandatory parameter which is changing in every event ( refreshing, ... ) .

Thank you for your help.

Best regards.

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform
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    Former Member
    Nov 20, 2016 at 02:42 PM

    If you're not afraid of SDK development, it is achievable with either Report Engine Java SDK or with RESTful Web Services SDK, should take a dozen lines of custom coding in each case. Plus some coding to take care of authentication - while OpenDocument provides a standard logon page, here you would have to create your own logic to obtain a session token. Where exactly do you need to place the link, is it some custom web page or another document, or something else?

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    Denis Konovalov
    Nov 21, 2016 at 06:06 PM

    why not simply schedule to pdf ?

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    Former Member
    Nov 21, 2016 at 07:53 PM

    Schedule a report by updating destination format as PDF.

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