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Linking to Crystal Report and opening in pdf

Hi

On BOXI4.2 (moving to 4.3 in about 2 months time)

We use http://-*:8080/BOE/BI/logonNoSso.jsp - to get to BI Launch Pad where users can enter there userid and password (AD) to see the folders which they have access to and run the relevant reports

I now have a request to link to a specific report and give the url out to the whole business- so the user will logon on with there userid and password (AD) using http://-*:8080/BOE/BI/logonNoSso.jsp and the report will open in pdf.

Can someone tell me what the url for that would be?

Appreciated

First, why would you use the

http://- *:8080/BOE/BI/logonNoSso.jsp

link? If you don’t have single sign on configured, they will be prompted to log in without having to use that link. You could just use the

http://- *:8080/BOE/BI

link. You are making it a little more complicated that necessary.

Second, in order for your users to get a pdf of the report, it will have to be a generated report instance. They won’t be able to run the report and get a pdf. You will need to schedule the report to run in some way. If your users need to answer a prompt with a specific value for their run of the report, the only way you will be able to do this is by using the Web Service and having a call to that service.

If the users just need to view the latest run of the report, you can get the url by scheduling the report to yourself with the viewer url included in the message body. Replace the instance ID at the end of the url with “Last”. The link will then always go to the latest scheduled instance of that report.

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You can use an OpenDocument call to just open up the report without going through BI Launchpad if that’s what you need. The documentation for OpenDocument is [here(https://help.sap.com/http.svc/rc/businessobject_product_guides_sbo42_en_sbo42_opendocument_en_pdf/4.2/en-US/sbo42_opendocument_en.pdf)] for 4.2 and [here(https://help.sap.com/doc/225672d1fdbb4a4aac19ae794349ec26/4.3.2/en-US/sbo43sp2_opendocument_en.pdf)] for 4.3.

If you’re working through a load balancer or are using a redirect for the URL for BOBJ, you’ll need to be sure to go to Applications in the CMC and update the OpenDocument URL to get it to work (especially in 4.3!).

-Dell