Using Documents in Web
Applications
Use
In Web applications with the Analysis, Single Document, and Document List Web items, you can use documents to add comments to and enhance structured business data that you provide, for example, in a table, with unstructured information such as texts, diagrams, and graphics. In the BEx Web runtime (Java), you can use the Analysis, Single Document, and Document List Web items to start KM applications (Knowledge Management) in order to display documents and their associated details.
Prerequisites
● You are authorized to display and edit documents. More information: Authorizations for Documents.
● In characteristic maintenance, the Characteristic Is Document Property indicator is selected for the characteristic whose values are to be assigned to the documents.
● While configuring the BI system, you made the settings for the documents in the portal. More information: BI Documents in Knowledge Management.
Features
Documents in the Analysis Web Item
Using the Analysis Web item, you can create, edit, and display context-sensitive documents for the data used in a Web application. You can also display document links to the content of the cells of a report. In this Web item, you use the document browser for working with documents. You can reach the document browser in the following ways:
● Using the Documents context menu for the cell
● Using the Document icon
The Document icon is only displayed if you have selected the
relevant parameter for displaying the corresponding document class in the Web
Application Designer. It is displayed for those cells to which documents are
assigned.
Using the document browser you can display documents, create a new text document, insert new formatted text, or upload an existing document. Choose the context menu option Create New Formatted Text to display formatting options. From the column display, you can display the Name, Content, Assignment (for the BI data), and Author columns. To do this, choose Display in the Web application and set the indicator for the columns you want to show.
More information:
Documents in the Single Document Web Item
Using the Single Document Web item, you can create, edit, and call documents of all formats in a Web application and display properties of documents.
In this Web item, there are various functions for working with documents:
● From the Details dialog box in Knowledge Management (KM), you can display documents of any document type as well as corresponding properties, such as Last Changed By. You can edit documents online or locally.
● Using the Edit Online function, you can create and edit text documents directly online without using a dialog box.
● In edit mode, you can create and edit text documents directly in the Web item. You can add, display and directly edit documents from the Document List and Analysis Web items using drag and drop.
To be able to work with text documents in edit
mode, you must first of all select the corresponding Web item parameters in
the Web Application Designer.
More information:
Details Dialog
BoxDocuments in the List of Documents Web Item
Using the Document List Web item, you can create, edit, and display context-sensitive documents for the data used in the Web application. In this Web item, you have the following options for working with documents:
● Using the Details dialog box, you can display documents and edit them either online or locally.
● The document browser provides the functions for editing documents and displaying columns here.
More information:
Documents as Online Documentation