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Leveraging RAS without loggin in to lbi

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mjcindc
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9/27/2010 6:00 PM
    This might be a little off topic, but let's see what you all think. We've got a data collection website that really has nothing to do with Lawson. Since we already have staff with SQL, Crystal Reports and LBI skills, I'd like to figure out how to leverage them and LBI or just the RAS service to provide reports to users of the non-lawson system without them having to log in to LBI. They don't have user names for LBI and the business owners of this other system are not very keen on making users log in to a second system to get a report. The easiest solution would be to set up a 'report' user id and pass those credentials along with the url from the non-lawson system. Alternatively, I could add a page to the non-lawson system that would give the user a place to enter parameters. This would be bypassing LBI altogether and going directly to RAS. I'm not sure that's possible. Has anybody tried either of these before?
    thanks
    Char
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    9/27/2010 7:46 PM
      The RAS was intended to be a workgroup solution and I'd tend to look at other solutions that could be potentially less expensive and for sure more robust. You really don't need a RAS to run a report via an application. Depending on how you call the report from your code, you can just let Crsytal handle the parameter prompts.
      John Henley
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      9/27/2010 8:13 PM
        I have developed a solution (called DecisionPoint) that has a very simple end user web interface to their reports (i.e. it has a security model), figures out the parameters for a selected Crystal report, supports binding to the database for dynamic parameters, etc. No requirement for Crystal nor for LBI. Currently in "early adopter" phase. See attached for a preview...
        Thanks for using the LawsonGuru.com forums!
        John
        Dean Rochester
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        9/29/2010 6:59 PM
          If you have Java programmers you can use this free Report Application Server Java SDK

          http://help.sap.com/javad...xi/ras/en/index.html
          Dean Rochester
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          9/29/2010 7:00 PM
            Oops I hit send too soon... Here is a url with samples too

            http://devlibrary.busines.../RAS_SDK/default.htm

            mjcindc
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            10/4/2010 6:30 PM

              I think that is exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks