sapexperts _ automate a personalized title in an sap bw web report
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SAPexperts _ Automate a Personalized Title in an SAP BW Web ReportTRANSCRIPT
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BW Web Application titleclick here to view a largerversion of this image
Automate a PersonalizedTitle in an SAP BW WebReportby Vitaliy Rudnytskiy, Senior BWConsultant, HP Enterprise ServicesFebruary 1, 2006When you create a new Web template,Web Application Designer (Web AD)titles reports “BW Web Application”(Figure 1). Unfortunately, I could notfind a delivered way to make thesystem show the Web templatedescription as a title. However, thegood news is that you can stillautomate it using a trick I am going toshow you.
To change it you have to switch tothe HTML tab in Web AD (Figure 2)and manually edit text for the titletag.
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Go to the HTML tab clickhere to view a larger versionof this image
NoteFor more information about TextElements Web Items, refer toSAP/BW 3.5 help documentation(http://help.sap.com) at BI Suite:Business Explorer>BEx Web>WebApplication Design: BEx WebApplication Designer>Web Items andclick on Text.
You can use Text Elements, which arestandard components for buildingWeb reports in Web AD, to customizethe title of your report. They areavailable in the Web Items window.Let’s say you want to use adescription of the query on which youbased your report. Switch to theHTML tab and put the code in Figure3 between the title tags.
<span class="mceItemObject" > <span name=”OWNER” value=”SAP_BW”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”CMD” value=”GET_ITEM”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”NAME” value=”TEXTELEMENTS_1”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ITEM_CLASS” value=”CL_RSR_WWW_ITEM_TEXT_ELEMENTS”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”DATA_PROVIDER” value=”DATAPROVIDER_1”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”GENERATE_CAPTION” value=””class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ELEMENT_TYPE_1” value=”COMMON”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span
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HTML code generates newtitle click here to view alarger version of this image
name=”ELEMENT_NAME_1” value=”REPTXTLG”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ONLY_VALUES” value=”X”class="mceItemParam"></span> ITEM: TEXTELEMENTS_1 </span> Figure 3 Enter code between title tagsNoteClick these links to download the code in Figure 3and Figure 5.
This HTML code displays only valuesof general text element REPTXTLG(describes the query) without thegenerated caption. In my example, thesystem assigns the query to dataprovider DATAPROVIDER_1. ReplaceDATAPROVIDER_1 with a technicalname of a DataProvider used in yourWeb template.
Now run the Web template via menupath Web Template>Execute in theBrowser and check the title (Figure4).
You can further enrich the titledescription. Let’s say you have amandatory one-entry variable for yourorganization that you want to showon a report title. You also want toshow the BW user ID of the personwho ran the report. Use the code in
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New title shows the GBUvariable and the user ID clickhere to view a larger versionof this image
Figure 5 with GBU (global businessunit) as the variable for theorganization characteristic.
<span class="mceItemObject" > <span name=”OWNER” value=”SAP_BW”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”CMD” value=”GET_ITEM”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”NAME” value=”TEXTELEMENTS_1”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ITEM_CLASS” value=”CL_RSR_WWW_ITEM_TEXT_ELEMENTS”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”DATA_PROVIDER” value=”DATAPROVIDER_1”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”GENERATE_CAPTION” value=””class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ELEMENT_TYPE_1” value=”COMMON”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ELEMENT_NAME_1” value=”REPTXTLG”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ONLY_VALUES” value=”X”class="mceItemParam"></span> ITEM: TEXTELEMENTS_1 </span> for <span class="mceItemObject" > <span name=”OWNER” value=”SAP_BW”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”CMD” value=”GET_ITEM”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”NAME” value=”TEXTELEMENTS_2”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ITEM_CLASS” value=”CL_RSR_WWW_ITEM_TEXT_ELEMENTS”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”DATA_PROVIDER” value=”DATAPROVIDER_1”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ELEMENT_TYPE_1” value=”VARIABLE”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ELEMENT_NAME_1” value=”GBU”class="mceItemParam"></span> ITEM: TEXTELEMENTS_2 </span> - <span class="mceItemObject" > <span name=”OWNER” value=”SAP_BW”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”CMD” value=”GET_ITEM”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”NAME” value=”TEXTELEMENTS_3”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ITEM_CLASS” value=”CL_RSR_WWW_ITEM_TEXT_ELEMENTS”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”DATA_PROVIDER” value=”DATAPROVIDER_1”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”GENERATE_CAPTION” value=””class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ELEMENT_TYPE_1” value=”COMMON”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ELEMENT_NAME_1” value=”SYUSER”class="mceItemParam"></span> <span name=”ONLY_VALUES” value=”X”class="mceItemParam"></span> ITEM: TEXTELEMENTS_3 </span>Figure 5 Code to enter variable for the business unit and the user IDThe new title appears in Figure 6.AC3339 is the BW user’s ID.
Note that the method I’m describing
Figure 7
Do not check the Can bechanged in query navigationbox for variables in thissolution click here to view alarger version of this image
works only for variables that are notchecked as Can be changed in querynavigation in the variable propertywindow (Figure 7). This window isavailable in BEx Query Designer. Youcan change this property in theexisting variable or you can create anew variable that fulfills your needs.