Stored Procedure Universe with Webi and Xcelcius

Business Objects XI 3.0, Xcelcius 2008
Created a stored procedure Universe on top of SQL Server 2005. The stored procedure inserts a row into a table, and works fine when calling it from SQL Server server. When I call it from Webi it wraps a transaction around the call and rolls it back after executing it.
Are the new Stored Procedure Universes in 3.0 meant to be only "read only" and don't allow inserts/updates/deletes commands in the stored procedures they execute ? Seems a little short sighted if they are.
Thanks,
Keith
Edited by: Keith Johnson on Aug 16, 2008 11:30 PM

Keith,,
absolutely with universe designer you can never use such like those procedures, you can not use insert or update statements on those procedure, it will give you errors.
but in xcelsius, you can do it with another layer
check this please
xml data button
http://resources.businessobjects.com/support/cx/samples/learning/downloads/ttv4-xml_data_button.pdf
XCELSIUS DYNAMIC DATA SOURCE
Dynamic datasources for Xcelsius
good luck

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