Installation

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Last updated: Jun 07, 2022 by Stefanie Schröder (Unlicensed)

The installation of the graphomate for WebI Custom Elements Service should be carried out by a person with the necessary knowledge and access rights (e. g. system administrator).

  1. Move the graphomate-webi-X.X.war to the webapps directory of the BI platform's tomcat server (e. g. C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\tomcat\webapps).

    Depending on the Tomcat configuration used, a restart is required to deploy the WAR file.

  2. Open the Central Managment Console and switch to Applications and Web Intelligence. On the left side of the configuration window, switch to "Custom elements" and "Add service". 
    1. You can freely select the name of the service, e. g. "graphomate for WebI". Under this name the extensions are made available to users of WebI.

    2. The service URL is http://<URL DER BIP>/graphomate-webi-X.X, e. g. http://bip.super-corp.com:8080/graphomate-webi-1.4

      As a service URL, do not use localhost, but the address that users also use to log in to the BI platform.

    3. Clicking on "Test" will check whether the specified URL provides a Custom Elements service and displays the offered media formats (text/html und image/png).
    4. Confirm with "Ok" and then with "Save & Close".
  3. Open the Launch Pad, Web Intelligence, and then a document. The graphomate extensions are available under Charts, Custom elements (see Quick Start). 


We recommend the following steps to set up SSL: 

  1. Activation of SSL according to the following SAP BO document https://blogs.sap.com/2017/11/08/enabling-ssl-in-bi-platform-4.2-sp05/
  2. If the setup does not lead to the desired result yet (resp. the graphomate plugin still not works) please follow those instructions  https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1981326 

Additional Tips:

  • Change the standardport 8443 to https 443

Installation graphomate for WebI on SAP BO 4.3+

Add trusted URLS to Whitelist

To use the graphomate components on BO 4.3 as a service, the graphomate service must be added to the whitelist. The instruction can be found here.

Allow cross-site scripting

To use the graphomate extensions as a custom elements services in Web Intelligence it is mandatory to allow cross-site scripting. Further Information here.


Note on deinstallation

The following steps are necessary to uninstall the graphomate extensions in Web Intelligence:

  1. Deleting the .war file and removing the folder of the corresponding name on the server

  2. Remove customs services in the Central Management Console under Applications / Web Intelligence / Costum Elements / Services (Remove)