Business Intelligence with SAP Business Objects 4.3

Xcelsius provides an authentication mechanism that enables you to avoid logging into InfoView twice with the same session ID. Take note of following rules if you customize authentication: - An existing session ID is used only if the user name and password are blank (if they are not hard coded or not passed as input values captured by a dialog). This occurs when Query as a Web Service is running in InfoView or Dashboard Manager. - If the user name and password are not blank, then use these values to authenticate the user. No session is created. This is the most scalable scenario and is the preferred option for large-scale usage. - If there is no pre-existing session (and username and password are blank), Xcelsius displays the standard security dialog, in which a session is created. This occurs when Xcelsius designers do not build their own security dialog. See also: Consuming a query as a web service in Xcelsius How to start Query as a Web Service

To consume a query as a web service inside Xcelsius, use the Web Service Connector The Web Service Connector component allows a Flash document created in Xcelsius to communicate with Query as a Web Service through SOAP, using point and click. The Xcelsius Flash document is self-contained and communicates with the web service to display data visually. The only prerequisite is that there be a SOAP-based web service available to the Flash document. The Web Service Connector component, when activated, creates a SOAP-based message (basically an XML document) and sends it to the web service. The web service responds with a SOAP-based message of its own. The Web Service Connector component then sends this data to all the other components, resulting in a live visual representation of your data. There are many public web services available, and many different toolkits and packages for SOAP-based web services. To use public web services and packages that already have...

This kind of query  is useful because can be used it to consume data into Xcelsius Dashboards in alternative to connecting through Live Office. See: Sap BO Dashboards 4.0 - Xcelsius 2008 Query as a Web Service is used with a Central Management System (CMS) The CMS contains the server component that stores the Query as a Web Service catalog and hosts the published Web Services. When you start Query as a Web Service for the first time, you must define the host server before starting. Each successive time you start Query as a Web Service you select an available host server, then log into the CMS. Once you are logged in, the Query as a Web Service startup Query Catalog page appears.  From this page you can start the query creation and publication wizard to publish a new query and edit existing published queries. How To define a query in Publish as a Web Service Wizard The "Query" page of the "Publish as a Web Service Wizard" allow...