Can I read a general excel file from BADI!!!

Question

Hi People,
The requirement goes like this.
The user enters values (say a, b, and some amount) in some excel sheet (not in the BPC-like format), now the requirement is to read this excel sheet in the BAdI and do what ever calculations and other member findings i.e. based on the values of a, b i should be able to find out other dimension values and calculate other amounts and bring it finally to and appropriate form that fits into the application and write it back to the application.
The primary question is whether i can read a general excel sheet which is not in the form of BPC-like from a BAdI? if its possible, how?
Hope you understand this poor explanation. any help is much appreciated..
Kind Regards,
Surya Tamada.
Edited by: surya.tamada on Mar 23, 2011 9:15 AM

Answer 1

Hi Surya,
Yes, you can do everything in BAdI, even read data from unrelated spreadsheet. Question is, why do you need BPC then?
You can verify those values you have in that spreadsheet against Dimensions or if you going to verify those in BAdI you'll duplicate BPC effort. I'd strongly recommend not to go that route.
In ancient times I used FM WS_DOWNLOAD, but now it says 'obsolete', so may be try FM SDOK_WS_DOWNLOAD.
Hope you don't have to use it in BPC,
Gersh