Hi,
I have published a WEBi block as web service that I am trying to consume as data source for universe in Infromation Design tool.
I am able to create a relation connection to published web service using Generic | Web Services (WSDL 1.1) | Web Services Connector.
In data foundation above connection does expose various "GetReportBlock_ ..." objects that I can add as table into my data foundation. Like,
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None of these obejcts show structure as per structure of the WEBi table that was published as web service. Instead, it shows whole bunch of input variables, like,
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Now, here I am not sure what value to provide to these variables, they all show up as mandatory. And if I add these as it is into businesslayer, create test quey on these objects, I get failed to refresh error.
My question is,
- Is it even possible to do what I am trying?
- Is this something to do with web services configuration / settings on my BI server?
Also, I am able to consume this web service in a new WEBi docuement (as a test) successfuly.
My server is BI 4.1 SP2 P2.
I have see some blog on the subject, wherein they show that IDT is able to consume a web service, but that is not coming from BI Platform and is external, http://scn.sap.com/community/semantic-layer/blog/2013/08/30/bi41-creating-a-universe-on-top-of-a-web-service
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you much !!
IMS