Update web form databound to business object

Question

We are currently attempting to migrate from sun forte/uds to another language
our database is oracle 10g
and I have been tasked with researching asp .net to see if it is a viable solution.
sorry if this is a dumb question but I am a bit new to the whole web thing I am used to thick client
anyway I created business objects based on the underlying database tables
so I have a vb class called lets say department that corresponds to the department table
class department
_private dept_id integer
_private dept_name
etcetera then on the web form I have a find button
which makes a call to the database and populates the business object department from using its primary key ... from department where deptarment_id = :department_id
then I databind all the controls on the web form to the department object.
I was wondering how do I handle updates
that is how do I know if a user has changed the value of one of the fields?
is there a some kind of property on the databound control?
something like
if TextBoxDepartmentId.DataBound.valueHasChanged then
end if;
Edited by: pollywog on Dec 22, 2010 8:08 PM
Edited by: pollywog on Dec 22, 2010 8:12 PM

Answer 1

let me clear things,
you want to present data from Webi report in Xcelsius Dashboard?
or you want to call a Webi report to run from the Xcelsius Dashboard?
for the first case,
you have a good way to present the data from the Webi Reports into the Xcelsius Dashboard using Live office connector.
.install the life office connector.
.open a new Excel sheet
.import your Webi Report into that Excel sheet and save it.
.open your Xceslsius.
.import that Excel sheet into the Xcelsius.
.in the menu "Data->Connection Manager",, click "Add->Existing connections->Live Office Connector"
this is the perfect way to present data from a webi into Xcelsius.
for the second case.
to call a webi Report to be run from Xcelsius Dashboard
all you want to do is to call the url , from the OpenDocument Api
check this link please
http://resources.businessobjects.com/support/communitycs/TechnicalPapers/boe_xi_opendocument.pdf
good luck
Amr