WebIntelligence connection to Excel

Post Author: Marks2407
CA Forum: Data Connectivity and SQL
Hi there - new to Business Objects and WebIntelligence (Infoview)
Just want to be able to run (and use the output) WebIntelligence Reports from within Excel . If I had Desktop Intelligence it would be easy - just reference the BusinessObjects Object Library from within VBA and use SSPI to pass username/password etc.
How do I make the connection and reference the outputs? Seems stupid going in to Infoview , exporting the report as an Excel file then importing it back in to a workbook. I am quite happy in Excel /MS SQL connectivity
Thanks
Mark

Post Author: pvierheilig
CA Forum: Data Connectivity and SQL
Mark -
You may want to repost your Q in the WebI section of BO Enterprise forums just in case I am not correct: WebI does not allow Excel as a datasource.

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