Web Intelligence Extension Points Help

Hi,
I am looking for someone that has worked with extension points. the documentation is limited and some of the links don't work on the SAP extension points site. What I am looking at doing with extension points is to reproduce the old grouping funtionality in WEBI 3.1. Our users are used to using this functionality in an old version of DESKI. Has anyone worked with extension points or know where to get good documentation?
Thanks for your help

Hello Aaron,
Extension points are focused on extending WebI graphical user interface behavior and look (e.g. hiding & replacing toolbars and buttons, listening to mouse actions, etc...) and therefore only provide a limited access to WebI report structure and objects.
These objects will be required to implement the custom grouping you are aiming at. These API are available from the REBean public SDK that you can use in conjunction with the thin client (dhtml) extension points, as you certainly need to coordinate with user action (WebI applet viewer and rich client are not based on REBean, and use another API, which is not public).
More information on REBean (javadoc) is available from the following link :
http://help.sap.com/javadocs/boe/xi31/re/en/index.html
Data providers objects are available from the DataProvider and Query interfaces...
I do not know if custom grouping has already been implemented from our SDK, I am therefore not totally sure REBean will be sufficient to acheive this (depending on how actually you want to provide this to your users).
FYI, There are several DeskI features we are working hard at implementing into WebI, amongst these, custom grouping is considered with a very high priority for the 4.1 release.
Hope that helps,
David.

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Hope this is what you're looking for:
[Web Intelligence Extension Points [original link is broken]]
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Hello Ofir,
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