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
Before trying this out, please make sure all the configurations related to your server and database connections are done and tested properly.