Archiving Link in SAP BW

Hi Experts,
I require help understanding Archive Link functionality with respect to SAP BW. As in How does it work with BW.
If I have documents stored in an external server A and activated ArchiveLink connection to the server A and R/3, then in BW how can I make a DocNo. retrive this document stored on the external server.
Moreover is there a way to retrieve ArchiveID and Archive Object ID to construct an URL to the documentserver and display it in the BW report.
I hope what I am trying to achieve is doable.Please suggest if anyone has experience on this or has some documents on archivelink setup etc.
ThankYou,
Tarun

Hi Tarun,
Check this for steps...
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e8/df7e3c6f5ee42be10000000a114084/content.htm
Please check the below url
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/advancedsearch?cat=sdn_all&query=archiving&adv=false&sortby=cm_rnd_rankvalue
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b32837f2-0c01-0010-68a3-c45f8443f01d
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/documents/a1-8-4/sap%20bw%20archiving%20and%20data%20aging%20strategies
This thread may help you.
Archiving
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Regards,
Ravikanth.

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