SAP R/3 4.7 BSP call Crystal Report on BOBJ XI 3.1.

Question

Hi there, I was hoping somebody could give me the high level steps to call a Crystal Report from a BSP (the data source for Crystal is from the R/3 4.7 server) and then have the Crystal Report shown in the BSP session. And, would it possible to have the Crystal Report return somehow as a PDF?
URL / Web service / Publishing ???????????
Many Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Ingo we're doing the same as this type of code except we using the URL Reporting of BOBJ (viewrpt.cwr) and expecting the CR exported to an xml format and returned to us in string format by http_client->response->get_cdata( ).
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REPORT zvalidate_email.
PARAMETERS: p_mail(100) LOWER CASE. " E-Mail id to be verified
DATA: http_client TYPE REF TO if_http_client .
DATA: w_string TYPE string ,
w_result TYPE string ,
r_str TYPE string .
DATA: result_tab TYPE TABLE OF string.
START-OF-SELECTION .
CLEAR w_string .
CONCATENATE
'http://www.webservicex.net/ValidateEmail.asmx/IsValidEmail?Email=' p_mail
INTO
w_string .
CALL METHOD cl_http_client=>create_by_url
EXPORTING
url = w_string
IMPORTING
client = http_client
EXCEPTIONS
argument_not_found = 1
plugin_not_active = 2
internal_error = 3
OTHERS = 4.
CALL METHOD http_client->send
EXCEPTIONS
http_communication_failure = 1
http_invalid_state = 2.
CALL METHOD http_client->receive
EXCEPTIONS
http_communication_failure = 1
http_invalid_state = 2
http_processing_failed = 3.
CLEAR w_result .
w_result = http_client->response->get_cdata( ).
REFRESH result_tab .
SPLIT w_result AT cl_abap_char_utilities=>cr_lf INTO TABLE result_tab .
READ TABLE result_tab INTO r_str INDEX 2.
IF r_str+44(1) = 't'.
WRITE:/ 'Valid email address'.
ELSE.
WRITE:/ 'Invalid email address'.
ENDIF.
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Shouldn't it be possible to ask BOBJ XI to return the exported data to us via http_client->response->get_cdata( ).
I can get the header info.
Thanks
Jesse.
Edited by: JBROOK on Mar 20, 2010 2:45 PM