This section describes the components that are
required to run and develop web applications that use the Report Application
Server SDK.
What components need to be
installed?
Before you can use the Report Application Server
SDK, you must have SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence platform 4.0 installed on either your development
machine or on the same network as your development machine. Use the
SAP BusinessObjects Business
Intelligence Client Tools 4.0 installer to install the Report
Application Server SDK developer components. For more information on how to
install the BI platform, see the
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Platform Installation Guide.
Note: To create or modify a
particular report through the Report Application Server SDK, you may require
additional product activation keycodes, as well as rights to view, refresh,
edit, and export reports. For details, see the
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Platform Administrator Guide.
What components must be running?
The components that must be started depend on
your usage scenario.
To run a web application that accesses
unmanaged reports from a file path, all of your client and server components
should be running, including your Report Application Server and web server. In
addition, several steps must be completed in order to programmatically open
unmanaged reports using the Report Application Server with the BI platform:
Enable the Guest account. As of
version XI 3.0, the Guest account is disabled by default, and an error message
indicating that the user account has been disabled will be displayed when
calling the
ReportClientDocument.Open
method.
Using Report Application Server
command line parameters in the Central Management Console (CMC), configure the
ipport switch
to specify a port number that you know to be free. For example, you can set the
ipport switch
to specify the default port 1566 with
-ipport
"1566". For further details, see the
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Platform Administrator Guide .
Also using Report Application Server
command line parameters in the CMC, specify the full directory path containing
the reports you want to view. For example, you can set the report directory
path by adding
-reportdirectory "C:\My
Documents\Reports" to the beginning of the command line. If this
option is not specified, the Report Application Server looks for reports in the
following default directory:
C:\Program Files
(x86)\SAP Business Objects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI
4.0\Samples\en\Reports
.
To run a web application that accesses
managed reports from the BI platform repository, all of your client and server
components should be running, including your Report Application Server web
server, your Web Component Server, and your CMS.
After you have installed the BI platform
system with its default settings, your server components are automatically run
as a machine service. Unless you manually turn this service off, the servers
start when you turn on your computer. For more information on how to start and
stop your servers, see 'Managing Servers' in the
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Platform Administrator Guide.
Note: You can have different server
components installed on different machines. For example, your Web Component
Server can be on a different machine from your web server. If this is the case,
ensure that the server components that are on other machines are running,
before starting your web application.
For more information about safely starting and
stopping servers, refer to the
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Platform Administrator Guide.