Message from webi

Question

Hi
i created a report in webi and then imported it to rich client and created a webservice based on it
when i change the report in webi and save i get the message "this documents contains content published as a web service
. do you want to save it"
does it have any effect on the web service running in xcelsius ?

Answer 1

Hi,
When content from a document has been published as web service (BI Service), BI service store a reference to the document / report and published block (table or chart) so when called, data from the actual document is fetched. There is therefore a strong lifecycle relationship between document and BI Services published from it, so that any change performed on the block is reflected into the BI Service (especially, if block is deleted, corresponding web service is broken).
Reason why you have this warning message, as some changes performed on document may impact consumers.
Recommendation is then to copy documents into a specific folder when content is published as web services from an  existing document, so consumers do not have the risk of being broken if the document is subsequently modified.
Hope that helps,
David.