Purging Webi document

[Former Member]

Hello Friends,

I'm relatively new to the world of RESTful Web Services and need help in writing a piece of code that will purge all the data providers of a web intelligence document in BI 4.1.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

-CF

[daniel_paulsen · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

A call to:

GET   /raylight/v1/documents/<docId>/dataproviders

will return a list of dataproviders in the document.  Loop through these and apply:

PUT  /raylight/v1/documents/<docId>/dataproviders/<dpId>?purge=true

Dan

[former_member197386 · Accepted solution]

is it ok Chris ?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Anthony,

Sorry for the delayed response. I have unfortunately still not been able to formulate a running code. I am trying to initiate the HTTP method call through a java program and pass the XML code through the request body however I haven't been able to get the coding working yet.

Regards,

-CF

[former_member197386 · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

Do you know we provide some Java samples to explain how to use REST API from Java code?

Regards,

Anthony

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Anthony,

I didn't know that. Where can I find those samples?

Regards

-CF

[former_member197386 · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

Samples are available here :

C:\Program Files\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\Samples\webi\RaylightRESTWS_Samples.zip

Anthony

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Anthony,

My client installation folder is unfortunately missing the webi sub folder which should contain the zip file.

Is this zip file available on the SAP portal?

Regards,

-CF

[daniel_paulsen · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

Unfortunately they are not on the portal and do not get installed by default.  If you go to "Programs and Features" in the control panel and select the Client Tools install, you can modify the install and select the samples to install them.

I made a short video showing how to install the samples which is available here:

https://mdocs.sap.com/mcm/public/v1/open?shr=97cFU_yGU31DU0Cp3f8_2z1ZYMaDjC_cDNAsNI96SMw

[former_member197386 · Accepted solution]

Thanks very much Dan, did you write a small post to indicate this tutorial video exists?

I think that would be great for many users!

Best regards,

Anthony

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Dan