Use of Infoview for BI Queries

[Former Member]

We are in the early stages of deciding how to position BOBJ in relation to our existing BI 7.0 installation. We have developed a number of queries through Business Explorer Query Designer. Is it possible to access these through Infoview? Or do we need to develop a Crystal Report, for example, to run against the query?

[IngoH · Accepted solution]

Hi Peter,

you can use the BW query as a source for the BusinessObjects client tools. here some examples:

BusinessObjects and SAP - Overview

/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/02/07/businessobjects-and-sap-part-i

Crystal Reports and BI Queries

/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/02/19/businessobjects-and-sap-part-2

Crystal Reports and BI Hierarchies

/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/02/27/businessobjects-and-sap-part-3

Crystal Reports and SAP R/3`

/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/03/23/businessobjects-and-sap-part-4

Web Intelligence and SAP BI

/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/03/24/businessobjects-and-sap-part-5

In case the idea was to use BusinessExplorer web reporting launched from InfoView, then this would lead to launching the URL but you still would get asked for the SAP credentials as InfoView is not generating a SSO token to be consumed by the BEx web reporting runtime.

Ingo

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Good Morning Ingo,

we are trying to put a url in InfoView for a BEx query and this is not working as planned. The url launches and the IE window opens and just seems to hang. Do you have a suggestion for this? I have read a few of your responses to this issue on SDN but it seems like in one you say, use portal, but in this one, you are saying that this may work.

any thoughts to how we could fix this?

also, i have created a message with sap and await their response as well.

thx again.

[IngoH · Accepted solution]

Hi Erik,

BusinessObjects does not provide you a token for SAP therefore SSO will not work.

Ingo

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

you can open Queries in InfoView. IE is currently not hanging, but it is in a loop, isn't it? Check Note 1437731...

Unfortunately, cou need to login again, before the Query is opened in WAD.

Rgds,

Christian

[arijit_das]

It is possible to report from BEx queries in BO.

Please refer to the blogs at https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/profile/Ingo%20Hilgefort to have an idea.