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The web service interface Yellowfin exposes use SOAP, which is a protocol widely used for web services. Yellowfin provides a Java web service API for connecting to the SOAP web services, but it is also possible to connect from practically any other programming language or environment such as .NET, Ruby and Python.

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You need to have a Yellowfin user with rights to perform web services calls. Ensure that this is turned on in the user role:

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You will need the web services admin user's details (login name and password) to perform web service calls.

Groups

There are two groups of web services:

• Administration Service  allows to manage users and client orgs, and perform Single-Sign-On. These are enabled with any Yellowfin license.
• Report Service allows to load reports/dashboard definitions, render reports into your interface, etc. This requires a Server license.

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• Enable web service to perform calls
• Calling Yellowfin API/web services
• Yellowfin session options
• Administration services API
• Report services API
• API Directory

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