Display & run a Flex Application in NW7

Question

Hi @ all,
i´ve developed a FlexApplication to read the Bex Analyser favourites to a Flextree an now im trying to display this application in our NW7 portal. The application is connected to SAP throu a BSP-application.
With clicking one node of the tree i want to open an sapWorkbook with, for example tcode RRMXP and a WBID = xyz.
How to manage this problem?
In flex i have the workbookID and the transactionCode, but how to send them to SAPSystem and after that opening a workbook with excel?

Answer 1

Hi Daniel,
You can Export content from flex application using JSP file on your N/W server also.
The Flow for this would be, collect the required content in HTML Table format string.
then pass this string as parameter to a JSP page which will open an excel sheet and copy your content to it.
You can also apply table formatting using usual html tags.
Plz find some code snippets for your reference :
Suppose on on click of node you have called for an method which is written in your ActionScript part of Flex Application.
viz. loadContentInExcel(para1,para2)
Definition for this method would be like :
private function loadContentInExcel(para1:String, para2:String):void {
               //Pass the htmltable in a variable so that it can be delivered
               //to the backend script
               var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
               variables.htmltable     = convertContentToHTMLTable(para1,para2);
               //Setup a new request and make sure that we are
               //sending the data through a post
               var u:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://XXX.XX.X.XXX:YYYYY/Test_Excel/main.jsp");
               /* In Above Line Replace XXX.XX.X.XXX:YYYYY with <Host IP>:<Port>  */
               u.data = variables; //Pass the variables
               u.method = URLRequestMethod.POST; //Don't forget that we need to send as POST
               //Navigate to the script
            navigateToURL(u);
private function convertContentToHTMLTable(para1:String, para2:String):String {
             //Set default values
             var font:String = 'ARIAL';
             var size:String = '10';
             var str:String = '';
             var style:String = 'style="font-family:'+font+';font-size:'+size+'pt;"';                    
             str = "<table border=1><tbody>";
             str+="<tr width=\""+100+"\">";
             str += "<td width=\""+100+"\" "+style+">"+"<B>"+"TransactionCode : "+"</B>"+"</td>";
             str += "<td width=\""+100+"\" "+style+">"+para1+"</td>";
             str += "</tr>";
             str+="<tr width=\""+100+"\">";
             str += "<td width=\""+100+"\" "+style+">"+"<B>"+"WorkbookID : "+"</B>"+"</td>";
             str += "<td width=\""+100+"\" "+style+">"+para2+"</td>";
             str += "</tr>";
             str+="</tbody></table>";
             return str;
In main.jsp page mention content type as application/vnd.ms-excel.
In body tag mention out.println(request.getParameter("htmltable").
Hope this will help you..
Regards,
Vivek