Broadcaster Settings in BW7.0 WebTemplates

[Former Member]

Hello experts,

my customer uses an individual copy of the standard program RSRD_BROADCAST_STARTER for mass publishing of web reports within Information Broadcasting. This individual copy manipulates the entries in the table RSRD_SETT_NODE_A ; variable values in the settings (written in RSRD_SETT_NODE_A) are replaced by entries coming from a control table (containing user names and their indiviual variable values).

For WebTemplates created with BW7.0 (Nw2004s) the format of the variable string in table RSRD_SETT_NODE_A has changed. Where a variable string in BW 3.5 followed the format &<variable_name1>&<variable_name2>&<..>&<variable_value1>&<..> the variable definition in BW7.0 Web Templates is implemented as a XML string.

Now in case of my customer's application it is not that easy to replace the variable values in the XML coding.

Does anybody use the RSRD_SETT_NODE_A in a similar way as my customer and has found a solution for BW7.0-WebTemplates ?

Thank you.

Holger Engelking

[Former Member]

Hello Peter,

thank you for your advise. You cannot know that, but in our case one user can have more than one assignment of variable values (e.g. more than one cost center), so it is not possible to derive ONE variable value from a user name. Unfortunately this does not solve my problem.

Best regards,

Holger

PS: are you sure that I would be able to derive my variable values from the sy-uname. I would expect this to be the user who executes the job (Broadcast administration background user).

[Former Member]

Hi,

Instead of XML coding you can:

1. Set the "user specific" flag in the Broadcast Settings

2. Create customer exit variables for each variables (manual entry not allowed)

3. Write abap code for the variables where you can use sy-uname for the current user (eg. select from a custom table with sy-uname as key)

Peter