Integrating an Application Studio report into the web portal

To integrate an Application Studio report into the CPM Applications web portal you must configure CPM Applications to change the DirectLink user name and password parameters dynamically (Configuring CPM Applications for portal integration).

If the Application Studio report accesses data from the CPM Applications database, the credentials of the logged-on CPM Applications user should be used to connect to the CPM Applications database (Configuring database access).

You must also know the unique name or ID of the report you want to integrate and then determine the DirectLink URL of the report you want to integrate.

To determine the DirectLink URL:

  1. Open http://[webserver/WebServices]/DirectLinkManager.htm.
    The WebServices DirectLink Manager is displayed.
  2. Specify the parameters of the direct link.
  3. From the DirectLink Query String field, copy the text following the ? character.
  4. In CPM Applications, define the CPM Applications web portal "Topic" report document path as: /deciweb/DoBSAReport.asp?[directlink url parameters] where "DirectLink URL parameters" are the text copied in Step 3.
    Note: To shorten the DirectLink query string you can remove the loginName and loginPW variables from the parameters of the DirectLink URL. Be careful not to remove any other variables. It is not necessary to remove the loginName and loginPW variables: they will be filtered out by DoBSAReport.asp.

    See also the Initialize Parameters DirectLink parameter.

    SeeInitialize parameters.

Parent topic: Application Studio and CPM Applications integration