This podcast will show you how you can leverage hierarchies in WebIntelligence using Opendocument and the Report Engine SDK (REBEAN.
Example use case :
- A user selects a hierarchy node from a dashboard
- This selection generates an OpenDocument string containing the drill level and the hierarchy node name
- The webintelligence report is opened at the hierarchy node selected in the opendocument string
Advantages :
Avoids unnecessary database roundtrips while drilling through a webintelligence hierarchy by accessing the hierarchy node directly
More details and code :
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Snippets/Accessing+SAP+Hierarchies+in+Webi+with+Opendocument+an...
