SAP BI 4.2 SP4
Is it possible that we could design our own Report Element?
Already aware we can create our own custom functions.
The area I refer to is where we insert Report Elements to Web Intelligence reports, tables, bar, box, column, gauges, geographic etc.
If yes how does one go about this, I would like to create a new geo map using either open source maps so I can plot longitude and latitude, drill through, filter content and zoom or move the map.
Aware of CMAPs but there are open source options out there that I have already incorporated and works really well (all be it limited), but alas I am restricted now with amount of characters in a single cell and getting #Overflow because of the many concatenations of map points to plot on map.
So only other solution I can think of is to create my own custom Report Element and have it deployed to the server and client for customer usage.
Hopefully this makes sense and I will answer any questions or elaborate where needed. We are not interested in CMAPS due to it’s limitations and cost when using Google API keys.
Macroman 
(BOB member since 2002-11-13)