Web Elements 2.0 Pass Thru HTML

Hello, I am reading the Web Elements 2.0 doc from the ZIP file on the Diamond site and it says you need to enable pass thru html on the BO Enterprise Server.Are they referring to the Internet Server here or the BOE XI server??we are a distributed installation with BOE XI on one server and Microsoft IIS on another.Here is the registry entry[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Business Objects\Suite 11.0\Components\DHTMLViewer] 'EncodeHTMLForSingleLineFieldObjects"=noThanks,Randy

You are correct.You need to enable pass through HTML on the Web Server not the BOE Server. Rob Horne <a href="/blog/10">Rob's blog - http://diamond.businessobjects.com/blog/10</a>

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Web Elements Pass Thru HTML

 Hello, I am reading the Web Elements 2.0 doc from the ZIP file on the Diamond site and it says you need to enable pass thru html on the BO Enterprise Server.Are they referring to the Internet Server here or the BOE XI server??We are a distributed installation with BOE XI on one server and Microsoft IIS on another.Here is the registry entry[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Business Objects\Suite 11.0\Components\DHTMLViewer] 'EncodeHTMLForSingleLineFieldObjects"=noThanks,Randy

Hi Randy,
I just performed this operation yesterday.Â The reg file included in the zip file needs to be merged into the registry on the server where the Business Objects server application is installed.Â In our installation, the IIS server and the Business Objects application are installed in the same physical box.
Hope this helps
Â Phil

Pass values from report1 to report2 but without displaying the web element

Need to pass a string value from report1 to report2.This can be done by using web elements. But in that case the web element is showing up when we run report1.So what is the way to avoid display of web element but still pass the value to report 2.
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if you have no need for webelements controls on a report and just need a simple hyperlink, use opendocument syntax in conjunction with an object's hyperlink properties in the formatting editor.
see your online help for more info on opedocument.

WEB Elements Usage

Can WEB elements be used by reports that are not viewed through Infoview? For example a report being produced via a .NET application? If so are there examples of this available? 

hello,Â
any html Crystal Reports viewer that can display passthrough HTML should be okay to use this function suite. viewers such as active x will not work.Â
in order for the controls to pass the proper context from main to target report, opendocument syntax must be supported by your environment.
even if you are using the business objects viewers, you do not need to present infoview to the end user...by creating a favourite that points to a "portal" report (i.e. a main report that has links, tree menus, tab menus that open up a report within an iframe or in a new window...) you can bypass infoview altogether. for example, if i have a report, webelementsdemoportal, i can use a favourite to access that report and not see any of the infoview wrapper using opendocument syntax similar to below...
[http://machine:8080/businessobjects/enterprise115/desktoplaunch/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?sType=rpt&sIDType=Name&sDocName=WebElementsDemoPortal | http://machine:8080/businessobjects/enterprise115/desktoplaunch/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?sType=rpt&sIDType=Name&sDocName=WebElementsDemoPortal]
watch in the next week or so for a package called "Crystal Reports Web Pack" which will have a portal example that uses the xtreme sample reports. there will also be an interactive quadrant report, and a yahoo maps integration report.
i'm not familiar with any .net examples nor have i tried this. one main purpose of building the function suite was to allow the report developer to develop more aspects of their web application within crystal reports and without an additional development tool...to create things like simple reporting portals, jump pages, custom parameter pages, embedded controls, etc.
let me know if it works out in your environment as i am curious.
cheers, jamie

OSB pure pass thru

Hi,
1. There is a back office web service. Lets say it it is called bo-ws
2. There is a web app that want to consume bo-ws
3. OSB role is to act as a pure pass through between web app and back office web service .. not to manipulate the soap message at all
4. web app will sign and encrypt the soap message for invokiing bo-ws
Can OSB act as pure pass thru between web app and back office web service in this case where web app will sign and encrypt the soap message?
web app (signed and encrypted soap msg) --> OSB Proxy SVc (just route to biz svc) --> OSB Biz Svc -->Back office Svc
Thanks
Edited by: GDD on Nov 9, 2009 8:43 AM

Hi,
Yes, you can configure OSB as a pass through or an active intermediary. OSB Security Guide will help you with the details.
Check Pass Through Configuration Item 4:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13159_01/osb/docs10gr3/security/message_level.html#wp1077884
Quote:
+# Active-Intermediary+
The proxy service processes the header in the client’s SOAP messages and enforces the message-level access control policy on the messages.
For example, a client encrypts and signs its SOAP message and sends it to a proxy service. The proxy service decrypts the message and verifies the digital signature, then routes the message. Before the proxy service sends the response back to the client, the proxy service signs and encrypts the message. The client then decrypts the message and verifies the proxy service’s digital signature.
+# Pass-Through+
Instead of processing the header in the client’s SOAP messages, the proxy service passes the message untouched to a business service. Although the proxy service does not process the secured sections of the SOAP message, it can route the message based on values in the header. When the business service receives the message, it processes the security header and acts on the request. Note that the business service must use the Web Services Policy (WS-Policy) framework to describe which of its operations are secured with message-level security. The business service sends its response to the proxy service, and the proxy service passes the response untouched to the client.
For example, the client encrypts and signs the message and sends it to the proxy service. The proxy service does not decrypt the message or verify the digital signature; it simply routes the message to the business service. The business service decrypts the messages and verifies the digital signature, and then processes the request. The response path is similar.

PAss thru authentication from solaris 2.9 proxy 36sp2 - iws 6 sp5

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we have a scenario where user's are authenticated at the proxy, then when they access a protected web dir they are authenticated again (the auth window pops up etc)..
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Hi
This as per the HTTP/1.1 RFC (RFC2616)
The Connection general-header field allows the sender to specify options that are desired for that particular connection and MUST NOT be communicated by proxies over further connections.
The Connection header has the following grammar:
Connection = "Connection" ":" 1#(connection-token)
connection-token = token
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Read the following at
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html#sec8.1.3
and
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.10
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Add web element in Crystal report for SAP system

Hi all,
I have added web element in Crystal report for SAP system (BI or R/3) . But it does not show the control. It shows only scipt.It does not render the HTML.
But if I add the webelement for Excel sheet ,It shows the control.
How can I add web element for SAP System? Can't we use web controls in SAP system ?
Help me in this regard.

Hi All,
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Crystal Web Elements in XI 3.0

Hi All,
Has anyone been able to get the Crystal Web Elements to work on XI 3.0.
For R2 the steps are simple to add the parameters in the web.xml file. I have tried the same for XI 3.0 and when the report is run it ain't working.
Is it still supported on XI 3.0 ????
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Try the following post:
Re: Web elements installation on 3.1
It worked for me to get HTML passthrough working on BOE XI R3.1 SP2 on .NET (WACS).
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Crystal Reports XI Web Elements - populate WESelect element values from database field

Hi,I am using Web Elements with Crystal Reports XI. I need to know how to populate the ElementValues and ElementDisplays arguments of the WESelect function from a database field. In the function expert when I click on the ElementsValues and ElementDisplays values a drop down appears which will let me select a field or formula. However, when I try saving and leaving the formula workshop an error message is generated. "A subscript must be between 1 and the size of the array".I assume this is because the WESelect function is looking for the "|" separator in the ElementValues and ElementDisplays arguments.Please advise.Thanks

hello,Â
in the webelements.zip download you should find a DCP report which shows the method for "rolling up" data using a subreport and passing these to a select control using shared variables.
basicallyÂ a string running total rolls up the values at run time and character separates them for use by the controls. for any type of select (drop down menu etc.) controls all of the values have to be made available before the main report is run so that's why you use this techique. you can think of it this way...instead of having an asp page that runs a database query and then populates a javascript array for the control, the subreport rolls up the values and passes them to the control.
other types of controls that you wish to place directly on a group header or details section can be run off of main report fields or formulae...e.g. you can place a checkbox control on the details section without having to roll up the data in advance.
by just putting a field name in the parameter for a select control, you will only get one value per control.
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Crystal Reports Web Elements - database write back question

Hi,
I have a question about Web Elements. In description of them on SAP site it says they can provide "write-backs to the database". This is something I would really like to see. I have a scenario:
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I would like to see example of such functionality on Crystal Report rpt file.
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hello,
webelements can be used for the interface to database writebacks...they don't do the writebacks themselves but create the interface to make it easier for an end user to add annotations etc...these values are then passed to a second report or a subreport. using the default prompting interface makes this quite difficult.
here's where the database writebacks are done...since version 9 of crystal reports there have been command objects. command objects have the ability to use any database syntax that is compliant with the database connection. i.e. if the syntax can go through the odbc layer then you can do this in a command in crystal reports.
commands will honour database securities so you don't have to worry about someone dropping a table if rights have been properly assigned. a word of caution there to ensure that database rights have been done properly as you don't want all end users to have the ability to write a report that can do database updates.
commands are also database specific so you would have to check your database online help to see what syntax would be appropriate.
the workflow would be to have 2 reports, one that had the webelements user interface and one that did the writeback. this user interface report would have the text object and submit button and using open document syntax, the values would be passed to the 2nd report that had the command object. the command object would have a prompt that would take the values from the open document url and then use the values in the write back.
for example,
1) the user interface report has one text object called "t1" and one submit button.
2) the target command object report has a prompt called "t1".
3) the target report command object has syntax like
INSERT INTO yourtestable
VALUES ('{?t1}')
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4) yourtesttable in this case has only one text field
5) the "SELECT 1" at the end of the command ensures that a dummy value is returned after running the update...to avoid a database error
6) this syntax would be for sql server
this is of course a very simplified example.
if you are at tech ed phoenix, please drop by the business objects test drive area & i will be there. i can show you a bunch of different webelements examples and write back reports etc. until you become quite bored
i hope that this helps,
jamie

Web Elements 2.4 - Encoding Values

I am using web elements 2.4 on XIR2.
I have some cascading dropdown boxes populated with dynamic values from a subreport.
This all works fine.
However, some of the data has ampersand's in it such as 'B&P Level'
Looking at the opendocument URL that the web element creates, it does not encode the values and so
the & in the value is mistaken as the start of a new parameter.
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hey Brian,
you have a couple of options when you have characters in the database that url's do not care for.
option A
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option B
you can use the urlencode function in crystal reports to change the value in the subreport that is rolling up the data.
cheers,
jamie

Web elements installation on 3.1

Can anyone supply the installation instructions for the server for Web elements on a BOXI 3.1 server

hi Brian, sorry for the delay in getting a response to you. please see the following....
STEPS
1) Open the following file
C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\Web Content\InfoViewApp\CrystalReports\web.config
2) **** Make a back up (copy) of the above file ***
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BEFORE
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 <CrystalReports>
 <add key="path.dhtmlViewer" value="/crystalreportviewers12" />
 </CrystalReports>
AFTER
 <configSections>
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 </sectionGroup>
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 </crystalReportViewer>
 </crystalReports>
 </businessObjects>
4) save the web.config file and test a report which contains HTML...e.g. a report with a formula like '<html> </html>'

Pass through HTML in Tech Comm Suite

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Web Elements Security

Hello,We are using Crystal Reports in a .net Business Objects Enterprise environment and have successfully done so for few years now. We are very interested in the new web page features that WebElements offer and have read the installation guidance which refers to the security risks of Pass Through HTML. Not being an HTML gurus we have approached our ICT system/web security colleagues for advice on the security risks of implementing WebElements. We operate both the BOXIR2 server and the MS SQL server entirely within our own domain on a firewalled internet. Approximately 250-300 are members of our domain but only 40-50 with access to the BO server.Our ICT colleagues recommended that if the server were open to the Internet they would not advise implementing WebElements but as we are operating on a closed intranet then providing we accepted the risk then it should be OK.My problem is I'm trying to guage just what the risk is! Is it possible direct access to the SQL server data for any domain members that could execute pass through HTML, even with permissions set on the tables, views etc., on the server? Or would the risk be much lower, i.e. controlled by the SQL server permissions. Or is the access to the SQL data set at the same read only level of the BO server pemissions on the SQL.My apologies if this sounds very general but we are trying to get our heads around the scale of the risk. Any advice, practical experience of risk a similar configuration would be very welcome.Many thanks,Dave

hello,please see this forum...<a href="/node/2099">http://diamond.businessobjects.com/node/2099</a>jw

WebElements: configuring pass-through html on server

We ran into a problem trying to deploy the pass-through html setting on BusinessObjects XI. We followed the instructions in the webElements User Guide 2.47. For Java based environment.
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hi Roger,
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Download webElements for Crystal Reports XI & Crystal Reports XI Release 2
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