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(csi How To Guide ExxonMobil Linking SAP Business Objects Documents Chemical Intrduction This document explains how to link different SAP Business Objects documents together using URL links in a step by step manner. It explains the procedure to navigate from one SAP Business Objects document to another and passing values between the documents. All the examples / screenshots in this document are based on the GEMS Ii SAP BO Sandbox installation. (BOE XI 4.1) Please be aware that the screenshots and functionalities are different between the WEBI HTML and WEBI Applet Interface. SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence OpenDocument OpenDocument is the functionality within the BI plat any viewable object type supported in the Central bbe another Web Intelligence documents, Crystal ‘The goal of this document is not to explain the elem step by step example on how to link Biltiecuments, For please refer to the Viewing Linking WEBI to static Link Linking | oat Y_ Filter aPage (csi How To Guide ExonMobil Linking SAP Business Objects Documents Chemical Linking WEBI to other CMS Documents Using the WEB Intelligence HTML interface, you can link to another document in the CMS using the Add Document Linl option is not available in the WEBI Applet interface or the WEBI Rich Client. Linking + | Add type. cuex | eit > &) Add Document Unk. 7 rier >) Read Content as Hyperink Click Browse and in the Choose Document dialog box, select the locument or type the document ID inthe document ID Box. _—— — OK Cancel & — C1 Use complete URL path to create hyperink Ci Refresh on open tink to document instance Oy Target area within the document + To ensure that the link uses the full URL path rather than a relative path from the current document, select Use complete URL path to create hyperlink. + Torefresh the data of the target document when the hyperlink is selected, select Refresh on open. then select an '* To link to an instance of the selacted document, select Link to document instance option from the dropdown list. Note: It is more efficient to open a document instance if the target document is very large. 21Page (ews How To Guide ExonMobil Linking SAP Business Objects Documents Chemical Most Recent ‘The hyperlink opens the most racent instance, ‘The hyperlink opens the most recent instance owned by the Most Recent —Current User | 1 POT Most Recent ~ Matching ‘The hyperlink opens the most recent instance whose prompt Prompt Values values correspond to the values passed by the hyperlink. Note: For option 1 & 2, you cannot specify parameter values in the hyperlink when you choose this option. The hyperlink does not pass parameter values. fameters are set to Use document default and cannot be modified. + You can create links between report elemer element as an “input control” that filters the values in other report eles ve a report containing two tables, you can filter the values in one table depending on the values Sel@cted in the other. & Target area within the document O Report name © Report part |ciick Select then right dick the report part Display report part only Re Document format dropdown list. The format of ‘options are available when defining the link. For example, you , oF build a dynamic tooltip by using the Build formula or Select object options. The ear when you hoover your mouse pointer over the cell containing the hyperlink, The link uses the OpenDocument Function. The parameters passed to the function are determined by the choices you make in the following dialog box. Note that you can also work with the OpenDocument function directly by typing the syntax into the link to a web page cell. 31Page (csi How To Guide ExxonMobil Chemical Linking SAP Business Objects Documents Dee complete Unt path to ceate hyperink C1 efresh on open tak to document instance (7 Tega re thin the document Document prompts: {CC transaction. A user can click nto view or change the transaction. jost-Psap-pbe-Pgui->sapits-PWEBGU! within your EBGUI transaction. ill click on the Purchase Order number in WEBI and open the PO in ECC ig the screen field RIMOGE-BSTNR. As you can see by the syntax of the URL, we can pass multip! feters to ECC and execute different options. A. Server Name & Port Number ‘The first step is to figure out the server where you want to execute the transaction. The server name is the ECC server name that can be found in the SAP Logon. You can also find the right port using transaction SICF. The transaction itself must be enabled for WebGUI access in SE93. The port number is also optional if the system is using the default port number. Note: Depending on your server configuration, HTTP:// might be used instead HTTPS:// s1Page (csi How To Guide ExonMobil Linking SAP Business Objects Documents Chemical https://dalgSfw1.na.xom.com/sap/bc/guilsap/its/webgui B. Parameters - SAP Transaction & ‘As mentioned, multiple parameters can be passed i The first element we want to pass is the ECC screen that we want to access. In our (E23 but many other screens can be called. You could access the requisit screen by passing different transaction code. Go to SAP ECC and launch the transaction code 1m WEBI. Purchase Order [4780003083] nd press Fl in the field you choose to populate Technical Information icon [if] to access the s1Page (csi How To Guide ExonMobil Linking SAP Business Objects Documents Chemical ‘The combination of the SAP ITS web GUI URL, the t-code and the screen field will allow specifying the ‘exact location we need to pass the object value we need. Let's build the syntax now that we have the Transaction code and the Value we want to pass to ECC. ‘transaction=ME23%20RMO6E-BSTNR=4250001083 ~transaction=ME23%20 -> Enter the transaction you want to access. ‘RMO6E-BSTNR=4250001083 > Enter the value you want to filter on. Note: %20 is used to separate between transaction and the field. space in HTML) u want to pass a value to (%620is a C. Parameters -Ok Code ‘The “OKCODE is used to bypass the selection screen i ‘~OKCODE is absolute and it is recommended tha} &°OKCODE=%42{00 > Enter the OKCODE | ions, Although the perameter D, Parameters -SAP Client & Language &sap-client=120 -> Enter the client number. &sap-language=EN -> Enter th (Once you have built your URL, you can t copying in Internet Explorer. You hyperli_iiISWBBn: ind select Linking > Add Hyperlink... Linking Ont Y Fiter Copy and agg Merve text box and click Parse. Link to web page Ente the address below, Then click Parse to extract ts Clicking on the parse button will cause various portions of the URL to populate. You can customize the behavior by selecting a Target window. Select the OK button, 61Page (csi How To Guide ExxonMobil Linking SAP Business Objects Documents Chemical Customize the look and behavior of the hyperlink: ‘Target window [New window Tooltip xv [=°"+{PO Number]+"| EBI objects. ap/bc/gui/sap/its/webgui?transaction=ME23%2520RMO6E- lace it by: "+URLEncode(""+[PO Number]}+" ""+[PO Number}+"" https://dalg9fw1.na.xom.com/sap/bc/gui/sap/its/webgui?™transaction=ME23%20RMOE- BSTNR=4550361283&~OKCODE=%2FOORsap-client=120 71Page (cemsi How To Guide ExonMobil Linking SAP Business Objects Documents Chemical “ B1Page

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