Package com.crystaldecisions.sdk.plugin.desktop.powerpoint

This package allows you to view reports formatted as PowerPoint documents.

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Description

Interface Summary

IPowerPoint	This interface contains the mime type identifying it as an PowerPoint formatted report, and the byte stream to pass to the Response Object so it can be displayed in the proper format on the HTML page.
IPowerPointBase	This interface contains the mime type identifying it as an PowerPoint formatted report, and the byte stream to pass to the Response Object so it can be displayed in the proper format on the HTML page.

Package com.crystaldecisions.sdk.plugin.desktop.powerpoint Description

This package allows you to view reports formatted as PowerPoint documents. When the report runs, it creates a SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise object in the CMS InfoStore. After retrieving the plugin for this object, you can set the ContentType Property of the Response object to match the value returned by the getMimeType() method and pass the ByteStream returned by getContent() to the OutputStream of the Response object. The report is then streamed to the browser and previewed as a Powerpoint document.

Retrieving desktop plugins

Each object that is created with a desktop plugin is stored in either the CI_INFOOBJECTS or the CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS category in the CMS InfoStore, and is marked with a programmatic identifier (SI_KIND). Using SI_KIND, you can query the CMS InfoStore for a collection of objects.

Example

The following query selects the names and IDs of all Powerpoint objects in the CMS:

IInfoObjects objs = iStore.query("SELECT SI_NAME, SI_ID FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND='Powerpoint'");

The query method returns a collection of InfoObjects, which in this case are Powerpoint plugin objects. Like other InfoObjects, these objects are uniquely represented by their ID property. For each object in the collection, you can access general InfoObject properties, such as the SI_NAME property, SI_DESCRIPTION property, and SI_ID property.

To access the IPowerPoint objects returned by the query, the resulting IInfoObjects need to be cast. This example demonstrates how to cast the returned IInfoObjects as IPowerPoint objects.

for ( int i = 0; i < objs.size(); i++ )
{
    IInfoObject obj = (IInfoObject) objs.get( i );
    IPowerPoint powerpointPlugin = (IPowerPoint) obj;
}