Hi All,
It is not an unusual requirement for the need of creating a Report or a Dashboard based on the data residing in the process-context of a BPM Process.
It is not a lesser known fact that this is achieved by using a Reporting Activity in the BPM at design-time.
The question arises that the reports and any other type of data interpretation techniques require a data-source to function. The Reporting Activity does this job for us.
There are 4 basic steps to achieve this:
1.Create a BPM Process
2.Create a Reporting Activity in the BPM Process and pass the data required in the datasource
3.Create a datasource and integrate it into the Reporting Activity.
4.Deploy.
Lets see these steps in detail.
1.Create a BPM Process:
Refer this document I wrote for creating a BPM Process: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-47005
2. Create a Reporting Activity in the BPM Process:
After adding, it should look like this:
Open the properties of the reporting Activity:
3.Create a datasource and integrate it into the Reporting Activity
In the 'Reporting' tab of the properties, select 'New' to create a new datasource:
Name the Datasource and click on 'Next':
Select the data for the datasource and click on 'Finish':
The datasource is now created.
In the 'Input Mapping' tab of the properties of the Reporting Activity, map the process context data to the datasource:
4. Now, build and deploy the BPM DC.
Accessing the datasource:
For example, if we take Visual Composer into consideration, we can access the datasource as follows:
Log in to Visual Composer (Web) - http://<hostname>:<port>/VC
Click on 'New' and create a new model DC:
Once this DC is created, click on 'Search' on the extreme right and select 'BI Data Sources'. Your datasource should be visible here as shown:
Once this is imported into the VC development component, we can use it for any data interpretation purposes.
This worked for me.
However, if I did something wrong or miscommunicated something, please let me know and help me improve.
Hope this helps in some way.
Thanks.
Sid
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