Defining a Web Templates Setting (SAP Library

Defining a Web Templates Setting

Use

The Reporting Agent allows you to pre-calculate Web templates, that is, HTML documents with BW-specific placeholders, in the background. In the Web browser, if you call up a Web Report that is structured on the basis of a pre-calculated Web Template, you can access pre-calculated data without having to execute an OLAP query. This means that access time is considerably reduced and strain on the application server is relieved.

However, please note that the pre-calculated Web Templates are static and do not allow OLAP navigation.

Prerequisites

You have defined a Web template.

You can find more information under:

Web Templates

Creating Web Applications with the BEx Web Application Designer

You have created a control query if necessary.

You can find further information under Control Query for Pre-calculating Web Templates.

Procedure

You are in the Reporting Agent function area of the Administrator Workbench. Choose

Web templates in the navigation frame of the Administrator Workbench. You can see available roles as well as the workbooks and Web templates assigned to them in the left-hand Reporting Agent Scheduler tree.

Navigate to the required Web Template.

You have the following options to create a new setting:

Using the context menu, choose New Package.
Select Create New Setting.

The "New Reporting Agent Setting" dialog box then appears.

Enter a technical name and a description.

The following information can be found in the General tab page:

The functional area of the setting is Pre-definition of Web Templates.
Under the Web Template group header, information is shown for the Web template for which you can make a setting (description, technical name).
Under the group header Last Change, the system shows- the first time after saving for the first time- the last person to have changed the setting and the time it was changed.
Under the group header Setting Used in Packages, the system displays information for packages where the setting is used, and their scheduling. However, this display is only possible if you have defined the setting and make assignments to one or more scheduling packages.

Choose the Parameters tab page.
Select from the Calculating group header what the system is to pre-calculate.

Pre-calculate	Information
Data	Accessing pre-calculated data leads to a marked improvement in performance: The data is no longer requested from the OLAP processor, and only the HTML pages must be generated. With complex queries with complex selection criteria TopN conditions calculated indicators We recommend that you pre-calculate the data.
HTML pages: HTML for Web Browsers HTML for Pocket IEs	The Reporting Agent supports various device classes. You can pre-calculate HTML documents for Web Browsers and mobile devices. When managing HTML(HyperText Markup Protocol) documents and the MIME(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) objects that belong to them, the BW uses the SAP Document and Content Management service (Content Management Framework).
Excel	The data is exported into MS Excel. (You can find further information in the documentation for the corresponding command for Query Views under Exporting Data .)

You can also select more than one options.

In the Language group header, set the language(s) for which you want to calculate the data. There are the following options to choose from:

Log-on language

All installed languages

Select Languages

Under the Recipient group header, you can set authorization for access to pre-calculated Web templates. There are the following options to choose from:

Roles
Recipient List

You can find a more detailed description of the procedure under Editing Follow-Up Actions: Send Message in the Select Message Recipient section.

Under the Filtering group header, you can determine whether you want to parameterize the Web template using the result of a control query.

Choose No Filtering if the Web template is to be pre-calculated without any additional parameters being set.
Choose Explicitly through Query Result when you want to use a control query. You can make entries in the Control Query and Variants fields.

Enter the technical name. Input help functions are available. After saving, the system updates the information according to your selections.

If the control query contains entry-ready mandatory variables, you need to assign a variant in the Variant field.
If the Web application requires you to enter a variable, under the Variants group header, you can generate one or more pre-allocated variables in the form of a URL parameter string.

Variant	Procedure
Create	Choose Create. The Generate Variant for Web Template dialog box appears. The variable screen appears if the Web application uses variables. Make the settings you want , enter a technical name and a description. Choose Next. The system adds the new variant to the list of variants.
Change	If one or more variants have been created for a Web template, you can complete the associate parameter string with additional parameters. Highlight the variant to be changed. Choose Change. The Generate Variant for Web Template dialog box appears. The system displays the parameter string for the pre-allocated variables. Make any changes that you want to make. Choose Next.
Execute	Choose Execute if you want to change the pre-allocated variables for a variant you have already created. The variable screen appears again.
Delete

Example for pre-assigned variables: Interval variables.

&var_name_1=myIntVar&var_value_low_ext_1=LowVal&var_value_high_ext_1=HighVal

Further information is available under Pre-assigning Variables for Web Applications.

Select the Preview tab page.

When you use a control query and want to have this displayed, under the Selection group header, set the Control Query indicator and choose Display.
When you want to display a Web template, set the Template indicator and choose Display.

A preview window is shown in the right-hand screen area of the tab page.

To display the template’s source code, choose the Template tab page.
Save your setting.
Choose Activate.

Result

Once you have defined the Reporting Agent settings, you have to assign them to a scheduling package for the background run.

For more information see Processing a Scheduling Package.

Once the background run has finished, HTML pages, MS Excel files, and the pre-calculated data for the Web template is available for you to use.

Further information about accessing pre-calculated data or HTML pages when calling up Web templates can be found under Parameter DATA_MODE.

You can also access pre-calculated HTML pages via Web folder.

You can store pre-calculated HTML pages locally using the document storage WebDAV Service in the content management framework. This is a simple procedure. (Restricted) offline reporting is thus possible.

You can find further information about the WebDAV service under Using External Tools .