Promote webi doc fron dev to qual environnement using SDK

Hi all,
I'd like to know if Crystal SDK (.NET ? ...) provide solutions to promote a webi document, for example from Dev to qualification environnement.
I know I can use Import Wizard for this but "I'd prefer not to"...
I had a look to APIs available in my BO XI environnement (Windows / 3.1 sp3) like "ExportSDK.dll" or "ExportBIAR" but I couldn't do anything...
If anyone can tell me :
1. if it's possible
2. if yes, little advice to implement the solution
I would be very grateful !
Thank's
David
Edited by: David Caputo on Jan 5, 2011 10:45 AM

you can use BIAR APIs ( available in Java only). They can import a BIAR file into a destination BO or export a bunch of documents from a source BO into a BIAR file. So if you must use SDK, you need to first export the webi documents into a BIAR and them import the BIAR into the destination environment.
Here is a link to sample java code to importexport BIAR:
Export
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/8029fd09-b866-2b10-01a0-e75361290984
Import
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/40d99c86-b866-2b10-5384-8b321e48979b
Alternately you can use biarengine.jar, a command line tool to perform the same thing.

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