Document Version History

The following tables provide an overview of the document changes.

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence RESTful Web Service SDK 4.1 (June 2013)

SDK functionality:

  • Browse for documents and manage document life cycle

    List all documents in the CMS, get document details, open/save/close a document, access and export a document, a report and a report element, get a report page in listing or paginated mode

  • Refresh a document

    Support of text, numeric, optional/mandatory prompts, prompting and context resolution, support of date and date-time, support of List of Values in prompts, support of prompts on SAP variables, support of nested prompts

  • Manage data providers

    Get the list of data providers of a document, get data provider details for a document, rename/sort/delete a data provider, export data as CSV or XML, purge a document, get the query statement generated by query on universes, change data provider source workflow

  • Manage data sources

    Get the list of universes stored in the CMS, get universe basic information, get universe detailed information, browse the list of BEx connections and BW BEx queries, get details of a BEx query, get data source query capabilities

  • Author queries

    Get/update the query specification associated with a data provider

  • Author documents

    Create a blank document, add a report to a document and set its report specification, delete a report from a document, get/create/delete/update track data changes, alerters, styles, skins, variable expressions, manage drill and create drill snapshots, manage document state through storage token, get custom format number from the document, get document default configuration from server, get font mappings, CSS styles, format numbers, default skins, and supported operators

  • Support scheduling properties

    Support of main recurrences (Once, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly), support of server group, get details of a schedule, add a schedule

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence RESTful Web Service SDK 4.1 SP1 (August 2013)

New features:

  • Export a report in paginated mode as a zipped HTML file
  • Export a page of a report as a zipped HTML file
  • Get the list of supported chart types (configuration/visualization)
  • Get the list of default color palettes (configuration/palettes)
SAP BusinessObjects RESTful Web Service SDK for Web Intelligence and the BI Semantic Layer 4.1 SP2 (November 2013)

The name of the guide has been modified. The guide has been reorganized.

New features for SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence RESTful Web Service SDK:

  • Use the new unit parameter to describe sizes when exporting a document, report, or report element
  • Create the Section and Cell report elements
  • Update the Section, Cell, and PageZone report elements
  • Delete a report element
  • Create, update, and delete a report filter
  • Get report filter details
  • Create, update, and delete report element data filters
  • Get the filter details on a report element

First release of the document for SAP BusinessObjects BI Semantic Layer RESTful Web Service SDK. Support of the following new features:

  • Get the list of universes, the universe metadata, the business views, the query capabilities, and the link groups of a universe
  • Create a query, get the details of a query, get the list of queries, delete a query
  • Get the query results as OData flow metadata and content
SAP BusinessObjects RESTful Web Service SDK for Web Intelligence and the BI Semantic Layer 4.1 SP3 (March 2014)

New features for SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence RESTful Web Service SDK:

  • Get the datapaths and the dataset of a report element
  • Create report elements as tables
  • Manage the ranking of tables or sections
  • Manage expressions, sortings, and breaks of a table axis
  • Manage custom properties of report elements
  • Manage input controls of a report (get, create, update, delete)
  • Export documents as ZIP files
  • Get the list of values of a data object
  • Add a BMP image as an attachment of a document
  • Specify the file name when exporting a report in listing mode or a page of a report as a ZIP file
  • Specify the reference when getting the details of a report element
  • Specify the reference or datapath when exporting a report element

Second release of the document for SAP BusinessObjects BI Semantic Layer RESTful Web Service SDK. Support of the following new features:

  • Get contexts and parameters of unx universes
  • Respond to contexts and parameters
SAP BusinessObjects RESTful Web Service SDK for Web Intelligence and the BI Semantic Layer 4.1 SP4 (June 2014)

New features for SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence RESTful Web Service SDK:

  • Save a Web Intelligence document on the user machine
  • Add, edit or delete a grouping variable of a Web Intelligence document
  • Get the query plan of a data provider and update it with your own SQL
SAP BusinessObjects RESTful Web Service SDK for Web Intelligence and the BI Semantic Layer 4.1 SP5 (November 2014)

New feature for SAP BusinessObjects BI Semantic Layer RESTful Web Service SDK:

  • Support of denied master view of a UNX universe

New features for SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence RESTful Web Service SDK:

  • Support charts (create, get details, update)
  • Export charts as images
  • Refresh data providers
  • Upload Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to the CMS repository
  • Use Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as data providers (get list, details, and add)
  • Support free-hand SQL data providers (get, create, update, delete)
  • Support connections for free-hand SQL data providers (get connections, get connection details)
  • Get schedules with full details (destination, recurrence, parameters, and group servers)
  • Provide new types of schedule recurrences (Weekly, Nth of each month, First Monday of each month, Last day of each month, X days of Nth Week of each month, and Calendar)
  • Export raw values of documents, reports, and report elements
  • Support of denied master view of a UNX universe
  • Get the background image of a report element
  • Use of custom palettes
  • Change in the default palette definition