Important Way to Connect the Company Data

Displaying SAP Business One data using Crystal Report and Xcelsius DashBoard - Demo

Applies to: SAP Business One versions 2007 and 8.8

Crystal Report Basic 2008 for SAP Business One SP1

Crystal Reports runtime 2008 SP1

Xcelsius

Summary The following article demonstrates how to create a runtime Xcelsius dashboard based on SAP Business One data. The following methods are demonstrated:

1. Using Crystal Report as a data source for the Xcelsius dashboard.

2. Using a Web service as a data source for the Xcelsius dashboard.

Author: Miki Zilbershtein

Company: SAP

Created on: 21 July 2009

Author Bio

Joined SAP in 2003 as part of the IBD SDK infrastructure team. Starting in 2008, she joined the SAP Business One Solution Architects team, which assists partners with any technical challenge they face in developing and implementing their solution

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Table of Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3

1. Introduction to Xcelsius ............................................................................................................................... 3 2. SAP Business One and Crystal Reports..................................................................................................... 4 3. Xcelsius ....................................................................................................................................................... 4

3.1 How to Obtain Xcelsius .......................................................................................................................................... 4 3.2 SAP Business One Data and Xcelsius ................................................................................................................... 4

Creating Xcelsius Dashboard using Crystal Report ........................................................................................... 5 Step 1 – Generate a Crystal Report ................................................................................................................ 6 Step 2 - Design Xcelsius dashboard and export it to a flash file..................................................................... 6 Step 3 – Embed the flash file into the Crystal report ...................................................................................... 8

Creating Xcelsius Dashboard Using a Web Service .......................................................................................... 9 Step 1 – Generate a Web Service for querying the DB ................................................................................ 10 Step 2 – Import the Web Service to Xcelsius................................................................................................ 13 Step 3 – Design Xcelsius Dashboard ........................................................................................................... 16

Appendix 1 – Use .Net object to connect and run query on the DB ................................................................. 22

Appendix 2 – Service.cs file content ................................................................................................................. 23

Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 25

Copyright ........................................................................................................................................................... 26



Introduction

1. Introduction to Xcelsius

Just like a pilot gets lots of information in one glance of the airplane’s dashboard, managers can get lots of information in one glance of a well-designed dashboard.

Crystal Xcelsius is a data dashboard design tool that displays summary-level business data in a visually rich and intuitive format that allows users to analyze and interact with their data in order to make better business decisions. Xcelsius has the ability to show data using gauges, charts, and other components, to generate interactive flash files, and to generate “what if” scenarios – all of which are tremendous tools for decision-making.



2. SAP Business One and Crystal Reports

In the first section of the demo, we will use Crystal Reports.

Starting from SAP Business One version 2007, Crystal Reports installation and license are provided to SAP Business One clients.

In version 2007:

A special version of Crystal Reports is provided with SAP Business One.

SAP Business One partners and customers receive a license and installation program for Crystal Reports.

Customers and partners need to install Crystal Reports separately.

Crystal Reports Integration Tool is provided in the SDN downloads area. This is a SAP Business One add-on for integrating Crystal Reports into the SAP Business One client.

To download Crystal Reports for SAP Business One version 2007, use the following link:

https://websmp205.sap-ag.de/~form/handler?_APP=00200682500000001943&EVENT=TREE&TMPL=01200314690900001653&V=INST&__EVENT=DISPLAY&_SCENARIO=01100035870000000183&_ADDINC=011000358700001192682007E&_HIER_KEY=201100035870000001522&

In version 8.8:

Crystal Reports is installed automatically with SAP Business One no integration add-on is needed.

All customers get a single license for Crystal Reports designer, plus 1 license for Crystal Reports runtime version for each SAP Business One user.

3. Xcelsius

3.1 How to Obtain Xcelsius

You need to buy Xcelsius separately.

For information on buying Xcelsius, contact your local SAP representative.

In this demo, we use the Xcelsius Engage license.

For more information about Crystal Reports and Xcelsius, please use the following link to the Business Object tools landing page:

https://websmp106.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SCENARIO=01100035870000000183&_SHORTKEY=01100035870000711038&_OBJECT=011000358700000566202008E&_ADDINC=011000358700001192682007E&

3.2 SAP Business One Data and Xcelsius

Xcelsius is able to work with data from different sources. In the following demo, we will show how to display live data from SAP Business One in an Xcelsius dashboard.

When using Xcelsius Engage there are different ways to connect the dashboard to live data. In both samples we will run queries on SAP Business One data base.

1. In the first sample we’ll use the Crystal report for querying the DB – and than we’ll use ‘Crystal Report Data Consumer’ connection in Xcelsius to forward the live data to the Xcelsius dashboard.

2. In the second sample we’ll use a web service for querying the DB – and than we’ll use ‘Web Service Connection’ to forward the live data to the Xcelsius dashboard.


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We will talk about it more in the sample.

Creating Xcelsius Dashboard using Crystal Report In the following demo, we’ll generate an Xcelsius dashboard showing SAP Business One data. We’ll be using the Crystal Reports for querying the data from the database.

Let’s assume that the year is about to end and the manager wants to view the performance of the sales employees in the last year. In order to fill his requirement, we will run a Gross Profit by Sales Employee (Annual) report for invoices.

To create the demo, do the following:

1. Generate a Crystal Report.

2. Design Xcelsius dashboard and export it to a flash file.

3. Import the flash into the Crystal Report.

To see the final demo, you can download it from here (see the CrystalReport folder).


https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/70cb9912-b658-2c10-5a95-9244ab65a02f


Step 1 – Generate a Crystal Report

** Please refer to “GrossProfitBySalesPersonAnalysis.rpt” sample file.

1. Load the “Crystal Report Designer”.

2. Click on the “Report Wizard”

3. Choose connection to B1 DB.

4. Data: Under B1 company DB (for example: SBODemoUS) choose dbo Tables, choose “OINV and OSLP”. Click on the “Next” Button.

5. Link: Check that the Link is ok and click on the “Next” button.

6. Field to display: Choose the following fields –

a. From OSLP table: SlpName

b. From OINV table: GrosProfit. Click on the “Next” Button.

7. Grouping: choose the OSLP.SlpName, Click on the “Next” Button.

8. Summaries: keep the default (OINV.GrosProfit).

9. Group Sorting: Click on the “Next” Button.

10. Chart: Click on the “Next” Button.

11. Record Selection:

a. Choose OINV.DocStatus “Is Equal to” “O”

b. Choose OINV.DocDate “Is Between” Type the relevant date you want to show in your report. (for example: 01,01,2009 00:00:00 and 31,12,2009 00:00:00)

Click on the “Next” Button.

12. Click on “Finish”, the report will be generated.

Step 2 - Design Xcelsius dashboard and export it to a flash file

** Please refer to the “GrossProfitBySalesPersonAnalysis.xlf” sample file.

1. Load the “Xcelsius” (tip: make sure that excel is not running at the background).

2. Prepare the data area according for your needs. For example since I know that I have 7 different sales persons in my company my data area will look like this:

** The values in the fields are not important at this stage since the real values will be forward to Xcelsius during runtime. We just need to define which excel cells are going to be used.

3. Summarize the total sales for all the sales persons.



4. Add a chart to your Xcelsius canvas area, for example: Pie chart. Fill the chart’s properties as

described below:

a. General Titles chart: ‘Annual Gross Profit Analysis By Sales Person”

b. General Data Values: Select the Gross Profit values (In this example it should be: Sheet1!$B$2:$B$8)

c. General Data Lables: Select the Sales Person Names (In this example it should be: Sheet1!$A$2:$A$8)

5. Add a gauge to the Xcelsius canvas area. Fill the gauge’s properties:

a. General Title: “Total Gross Profit”

b. General Data: select the cell with the Total gross profit value (In this example it should be: Sheet1!$B$9)

c. General Scale: Set the minimum and maximum limits (for example: 0, 3000000).

* Tip – In the “GrossProfitBySalesPersonAnalysis.xlf” file alerts are also demonstrated.

6. Add horizontal sliders for each one of the sales persons. (The horizontal sliders will be used for the running the “what if” scenarios). Fill the horizontal slider properties:

a. General Title: Choose the relevant cell for the title (for example - Sheet1!$A$2)

b. General Data: Choose the relevant cell for the data (for example - Sheet1!$B$2)

c. General Scale: Set the maximum (for example: 600000)

** repeat steps a & b for each one of the sales employees.

7. Define the range of cells that will hold the data from the crystal report:

a. In the upper menu click on “Data Connection”

b. Click on “Add” and choose “Crystal Report Data Consumer”

c. Row Headers: The data for this sample is saved in rows therefore select the relevant data into the “Row Header” property. (In this example it should be: Sheet1!$A$2:$A$8)

d. Data: select the relevant cell that will hold the data into the “Data” property. (In this sample it should be: Sheet1!$B$2:$B$8)

e. Click on close.

8. Export the Xcelsius dashboard into a flash:

a. In the upper menu click on File Save.

b. In the upper menu click on File Export Flash (SWF)



Step 3 – Embed the flash file into the Crystal report

** Please refer to the “GrossProfitBySalesPersonAnalysisWithFlash.rpt” file

1. Load the crystal report generated in step 1 into the Crystal report designer.

2. In the upper menu click on “Insert Flash”

3. Browse to the flash file generated in step 2 section 8, click on the ok button.

4. Click on the area in the report you want to have the flash in. (for example: Report Header). The flash will be added empty without any values to the report.

5. Bind the data from crystal report to the flash:

a. Right click on the flash and choose “Flash Data Expert”

b. Drag and drop the “OSLP.SlpName” into the “Insert Row Label” table

c. Drag and drop the “OINV.GrosProfit” into the “Insert Data Value” table. Since we have many rows for each sales employee, we’d like crystal report to group the data before sending it to the flash. In order to do it:

i. Click on the “Options” button

ii. Under “Calculate this summary” choose “Sum” and click on the ok button.

iii. Click on the ok button

The report is ready; you can run it from Crystal designer or from B1 integration Add-On (under: Administration Crystal Report Administration Manage Crystal Reports.)

* Tip – once running the a report with a flash, in order to use the ‘what if’ scenario first double click on the flash area.

** Tip - You must have Crystal Report runtime version 2008 SP1 in order to be able to show flash inside your Crystal Report. For making sure you have to correct “Crystal Report runtime version” for running flash in your CR reports, please refer to Crystal Report Runtime blog - https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/14516


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Creating Xcelsius Dashboard Using a Web Service In the following demo we’ll generate an Xcelsius dashboard showing B1 Data. We’ll develop a web service and use it with Xcelsius for querying the data from the DB.

Let’s assume that the year is about to end and the manager wants to know which items made the most profit in the last year. In order to fill his requirement we will generate the “Sales Analysis by Items (Annual) report for Invoices”.

To create the demo, do the following:

1. Generate a web service for querying the DB.

2. Import the web service (generated in section 1) to Xcelsius.

3. Design Xcelsius Dashboard.

To see the final demo, you can download it from here (see the WebService folder).


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Step 1 – Generate a Web Service for querying the DB

In this step we’ll develop a web service that runs a query on the DB. We chose to use the DI Server web services for connecting and querying the DB, however you can directly connect and run a query on the DB using .NET objects as shown in appendix1.

** Please refer to “QryDbWebService” Sample.

1. In Visual Studio choose “File New Web Site”

2. Click on “ASP.Net Web Service”, Adjust the solution location and click on the “OK” button.

A new solution will be generated.

3. Right click on your project name and choose: “Add Web References”. The following window will open:



4. Click on “Web Services In the local machine” (Please note: this option is relevant only if you have the B1WS installed on your local machine! If you don’t have B1WS installed, you can also generate the web service using .NET objects as shown in appendix 1).

5. Choose “Login service”, rename it and click on the “Add Reference” button.

6. Repeat steps 3-5 and add the “CompanyService” as well.

7. Open the “Service.cs” file (under AppCode folder).

8. Above the “HelloWorld” Web method add the following struct: public struct QueryResult

{ public string ItemName; public string Quantity; public double GrossProfit; public string ItemGroupName;

}

9. Rename the “HelloWorld” web method to “RunQuery”.

10. Change the Return value to “QueryResult”

11. Edit the “RunQuery” web method:

a. Remove the “return "Hello World";”

b. Add the code for login to your B1 DB, for example:

LoginService.LoginService serviceLogin = new LoginService.LoginService(); return serviceLogin.Login("(Local)", "SBODemoUS", LoginService.LoginDatabaseType.dst_MSSQL2005, true, "sa", "B1Admin", "manager", "manager",LoginService.LoginLanguage.ln_English , true, "localhost:30000"); Run the wanted Query on your DB, for example the following query return the 10 items with the top gross profit for the required time range. : CompanyService.CompanyService CmpService = new CompanyService.CompanyService(); // Create message Header CompanyService.MsgHeader CmpMsgHdr = new CompanyService.MsgHeader(); CmpMsgHdr.SessionID = SessionID; CmpMsgHdr.ServiceName = CompanyService.MsgHeaderServiceName.CompanyService; CmpMsgHdr.ServiceNameSpecified = true; CmpService.MsgHeaderValue = CmpMsgHdr; // Create Input parameters CompanyService.RecordsetParams MyRecordsParams = new CompanyService.RecordsetParams(); MyRecordsParams.Query = "SELECT top 10 OITM.[ItemName], sum(INV1.[Quantity]) as Qty,sum(INV1.[GrssProfit]) as GrossProfit, OITB.[ItmsGrpNam] From OINV INNER JOIN INV1 ON OINV.DocEntry = INV1.DocEntry INNER JOIN OITM ON INV1.ItemCode = OITM.ItemCode INNER JOIN OITB ON OITM.ItmsGrpCod = OITB.ItmsGrpCod WHERE OINV.[DocDate] >= '2008-01-01' and OINV.[DocDate] <= '2009-12-31' GROUP BY OITM.[ItemName], OITB.[ItmsGrpNam] order by sum(INV1.[GrssProfit]) desc"; // Invoke query CompanyService.Recordset RS_QryResult = new CompanyService.Recordset(); RS_QryResult = CmpService.Query(MyRecordsParams); Parse Query result – Since Xcelsius Engage knows to read Web service only with a single schema and without complex types. We need to provide simple data types as an



output, Therefore in this step we will parse the query result into a more simple data type. We will transfer the data from the RecordSet into our “QueryResult” struct. For example: QueryResult[] QryRes = null; QryRes = new QueryResult[RS_QryResult.Row.Length]; int i = 0; while (i < RS_QryResult.Row.Length ) { QryRes[i].ItemName = RS_QryResult.Row[i].Property[0].Value; QryRes[i].Quantity = RS_QryResult.Row[i].Property[1].Value; QryRes[i].GrossProfit = double.Parse(RS_QryResult.Row[i].Property[2].Value); QryRes[i].ItemGroupName = RS_QryResult.Row[i].Property[3].Value; i++; } Send the formatted data as a returned value: return QryRes;

The Service.cs file should look as shown in Appendix 2.

** The Web service is ready; In step 2 you’ll need to provide its wsdl address. For the Xcelsius Designing phase (step 2), You can either run it from visual studio (during development), or deploy it and use the deployed address.



Step 2 – Import the Web Service to Xcelsius

In this step we’ll consume the web service we’ve generated in step 1 in the Xcelsius.

** Please refer to “GrossProfitAnalisysByItem.xlf” Sample.

1. Load Xcelsius Engage.

2. In the upper menu click on “Data Connections”

3. Click on the “Add” button and choose: “Web Service Connection”

4. Copy the address of your service WSDL into the “WSDL URL” field and click on the “Import” button.

5. Choose the “RunQuery” method in the “Method field”:



6. Now we need to tell Xcelsius, to which fields to copy the web service output. In order to do it we need to fill the “Insert In” field for each one of the following output values:

a. ItemName

b. Quantity

c. GrossProfit

d. ItemGroupName

For example: ItemName field values will be saved in “Sheet1!$A$2:$A$16”

7. Click on the “Usage” tab and check the “Refresh On Load” checkbox. (Please note that you can

decide how frequent you want to refresh your data).



8. Click on the “Close” button.

** Tip – In order to check that your Web service is working properly, before you continue to develop the dashboard you can use a “Grid” component to reflect the fields you’ve chosen for the “Insert In” field:

Click on the Preview button and you’ll see the result of your query:



Step 3 – Design Xcelsius Dashboard

1. In order to make it easier to design the Xcelsius dash board, copy values into the fields that your component will read from.(It doesn’t have to be the real values, just any values in the relevant fields). For Example:



2. Add a Bar chart: From the “Component” tool bar under charts drag and drop a “Bar Chart”. Fill the chart’s properties as described below:

a. General Titles chart: ‘Annual Sales Analysis By Item”

b. General Titles sub title: ”Gross Profit”

c. General Data Choose “By Series”, Click on the (+) to add new series.

d. Name the Series: “Item Gross Profit”

e. Value(X) – Choose the “Gross Profit” values (Sheet1!$C$2:$C$11)

f. Category Labels (Y) – Choose the Item Name values (Sheet1!$A$2:$A$11)

Tip: for a better visibility: go to appearance tab and reduce the “marker size” value.

The dashboard should look like this:



3. I’d like to show the gross profit distribution per item group. In order to do it, first we need to summarize the gross profit per items group.

a. Add the following formula for each one of the items group: “=SUMIF(D$2:D$11,F2,C$2:C$11)”

4. Add a Pie chart: From the “Component” tool bar under charts drag and drop a “Pie Chart”. Fill

the chart’s properties as described below:

a. General Titles chart: ‘Annual Sales Analysis Per Item Groups”

b. General Titles sub title: ”Gross Profit”

c. General Data Values: Choose the values we’ve calculated on section a (Sheet1!$G$2:$G$4).

d. General Data Labels: Choose the item groups names (Sheet1!$F$2:$F$4)



5. Add a Total Gauge: From the “component” tool bar Under “single Value” drag and drop a “Gauge”. Fill the Gauge’s properties as described below:

a. In the Excel part of the Xcelsius designer - Summarize the gross profit column as shown below:

b. General Title: “Total Gross Profit”

c. General Data: Choose the field that holds the total summary (Sheet1!$C$12).

d. General Data Scale: Adjust the “Maximum Limit” value to fit your data (for example: 2500000).



6. Add a “What If” scenario: we’d like to show how a change in the Gross profit of one of the top 5 selling items will influence the total gross profit. In order to do it we will add 5 “Horizontal Sliders” that will represent the gross profit for each one of the top selling 5 item.s User will be able to change the value of each one of them and see how the total gross profit is affected.

a. From the “component” tool bar Under “single Value” drag and drop an “Horizontal Slider”. Set the following properties:

i. General Title: Should point to the cell that holds the Item Name of the relevant item (for example: “Sheet1!$A$2”).

ii. General Data: should point to the cell that holds the gross profit value of the relevant item (for example: ” Sheet1!$C$2”).

iii. General Data Scale: Adjust the “Maximum Limit” value to fit your data (for example: 350000).

iv. Repeat steps i-iii for each one of the top 5 selling items.

Tip: You can choose a “Theme” and design the Xcelsius dash board according to your taste and needs. For example; I chose the “Elan” theme.



Your dashboard is ready and it should look like this:

7. Click on the “Preview” button and see your dash board running. You can check the ‘what if’ scenario

by changing the values off the horizontal sliders and see how the values in the graphs and gauge are changed accordingly.

Your Dash board is ready you can export it to power point, flash, PDF etc…



Appendix 1 – Use .Net object to connect and run query on the DB public Service () { } public struct QueryResult { public string SlpName; public string Commission; } [WebMethod] public QueryResult[] RunQuery() { // Open Connection - Query Data from DB table - Close connection SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection("Data Source=(local);Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=SBODemoUS"); SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter( "SELECT SlpName, Commission FROM OSLP", connection); DataTable DT_QryResult = new DataTable(); adapter.Fill(DT_QryResult); connection.Close(); // Parse data to be forward to Xcelsius QueryResult[] QryRes = null; QryRes = new QueryResult[DT_QryResult.Rows.Count]; int i=0; foreach (DataRow row in DT_QryResult.Rows) { QryRes[i].SlpName = row["SlpName"].ToString(); QryRes[i].Commission = row["commission"].ToString(); i++; } return QryRes;



Appendix 2 – Service.cs file content using System; using System.Web; using System.Web.Services; using System.Web.Services.Protocols; [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")] [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)] public class Service : System.Web.Services.WebService { public Service () { } public struct QueryResult { public string ItemName; public string Quantity; public double GrossProfit; public string ItemGroupName; } [WebMethod] public QueryResult[] RunQuery() { /////////////// Connect to DB //////////////// string SessionID = ""; LoginService.LoginService serviceLogin = new LoginService.LoginService(); SessionID = serviceLogin.Login("(Local)", "SBODemoUS", LoginService.LoginDatabaseType.dst_MSSQL2005, true, "sa", "B1Admin", "manager", "manager", LoginService.LoginLanguage.ln_English, true, "localhost:30000"); /////////////// Run Query //////////////// CompanyService.CompanyService CmpService = new CompanyService.CompanyService(); // Create message Header CompanyService.MsgHeader CmpMsgHdr = new CompanyService.MsgHeader(); CmpMsgHdr.SessionID = SessionID; CmpMsgHdr.ServiceName = CompanyService.MsgHeaderServiceName.CompanyService; CmpMsgHdr.ServiceNameSpecified = true; CmpService.MsgHeaderValue = CmpMsgHdr; // Create Input parameters CompanyService.RecordsetParams MyRecordsParams = new CompanyService.RecordsetParams(); MyRecordsParams.Query = "SELECT top 10 OITM.[ItemName], sum(INV1.[Quantity]) as Qty,sum(INV1.[GrssProfit]) as GrossProfit, OITB.[ItmsGrpNam] From OINV INNER JOIN INV1 ON OINV.DocEntry = INV1.DocEntry INNER JOIN OITM ON INV1.ItemCode = OITM.ItemCode INNER JOIN OITB ON OITM.ItmsGrpCod = OITB.ItmsGrpCod WHERE OINV.[DocDate] >= '2008-01-01' and OINV.[DocDate] <= '2009-12-31' GROUP BY OITM.[ItemName], OITB.[ItmsGrpNam] order by sum(INV1.[GrssProfit]) desc"; // Invoke query CompanyService.Recordset RS_QryResult = new CompanyService.Recordset(); RS_QryResult = CmpService.Query(MyRecordsParams);



/////////////// Parse Query Result //////////////// QueryResult[] QryRes = null; QryRes = new QueryResult[RS_QryResult.Row.Length]; int i = 0; while (i < RS_QryResult.Row.Length ) { QryRes[i].ItemName = RS_QryResult.Row[i].Property[0].Value; QryRes[i].Quantity = RS_QryResult.Row[i].Property[1].Value; QryRes[i].GrossProfit = double.Parse(RS_QryResult.Row[i].Property[2].Value); QryRes[i].ItemGroupName = RS_QryResult.Row[i].Property[3].Value; i++; } return QryRes; } }



Related Content For more information about this topic:

1) Crystal Report Runtime blog - https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/14516

2) Xcelsius Landing Page - https://service.sap.com/~form/sapnet?_SCENARIO=01100035870000000183&_SHORTKEY=01100035870000711038&_OBJECT=011000358700000566202008E&_ADDINC=011000358700001192682007E&


https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/14516

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