Report Services

The web services in this section are specific to Yellowfin's reports.

This function is used to set the status of a report comment. The status options include: OPEN, EDITED, RESOLVED and DELETED.

Request Elements

The following elements will be passed with this request:

Request Element	Data Type	Description
LoginId	String	Yellowfin web services administrator user Id. This can be the user ID or the email address, depending on the Logon ID method. This Yellowfin account must have the “web services” role enabled, and must belong to the Default (i.e. Primary) Org.
Password	String	Password of the above account.
OrgId	Integer	Default (i.e. Primary) organization ID within Yellowfin. Always set this to 1.
ReportRequest	String	Web services function. Set this to "COMMENTSTATUS".
ReportComment	ReportComment	Object containing details of the report comment whose status is to be set. See table below.
OrgRef	String	Client Org Internal Reference Id (optional). Use this to search for the report in the referenced Client Org. If this is not set, then the report will be searched in the default (primary) org.
ReportId	Integer	You can provide a report ID to search for a particular report.

These are the mandatory parameters that you need to set in the ReportComment object for this function:

ReportComment Element	Data Type	Description	Retrieval Code
CommentId	Integer	ID of comment	`getCommentId()`
StatusCode	String	Provide the new status. The status option include: OPEN, EDITED, RESOLVED and DELETED.	`getStatusCode()`

Request Example

The following SOAP example shows the parameters that you can pass to this call:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:web="http://webservices.web.mi.hof.com/">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <web:remoteReportCall>
         <arg0>
            <loginId>admin@yellowfin.com.au</loginId>
            <password>test</password>
            <orgId>1</orgId>
            <reportRequest>COMMENTSTATUS</reportRequest>
            <reportId>60712</reportId>
            <reportComment>
            	<commentId>12345</commentId>
            	<statusCode>OPEN</statusCode>
            </reportComment>
         </arg0>
      </web:remoteReportCall>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Response Elements

The response returned will contain these parameters:

Response Element

Data Type

Description

StatusCode

String

Status of the web service call. Possible values include:

SUCCESS
FAILURE

Response Example

The service will return the below response, according to our SOAP example:

<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <S:Body>
      <ns2:remoteReportCallResponse xmlns:ns2="http://webservices.web.mi.hof.com/">
         <return>
            <canDrill>false</canDrill>
            <dashboardEnabled>false</dashboardEnabled>
            <errorCode>0</errorCode>
            <messages>Successfully Authenticated User: admin@yellowfin.com.au</messages>
            <messages>Web Service Request Complete</messages>
            <private>false</private>
            <sessionId>6dc344c3e5dee88864998f4acc17d676</sessionId>
            <statusCode>SUCCESS</statusCode>
         </return>
      </ns2:remoteReportCallResponse>
   </S:Body>
</S:Envelope>

Instructions

See below for step-by-step instructions on how to perform this call, using a Java example:

Here's a basic request to perform this call, which includes logging in as the admin user and specifying the web service call to perform:

ReportServiceRequest rsr = new ReportServiceRequest();

rsr.setLoginId("admin@yellowfin.com.au");
rsr.setPassword("test");
rsr.setOrgId(new Integer(1));

rsr.setReportRequest("COMMENTSTATUS");

If you need to specify the client org where the report exists, add this to your code:
```
rsr.setOrgRef("org1");      // search for the report in this client org
```

This function requires a ReportComment object to specify the new status to be given to the report:
```
ReportComment rc=new ReportComment();
```
You can even specify which report's comment to change the status of:
```
rc.setReportId(60712);
```
Specify which comment to change the status of, and the new status option:
```
rc.setCommentId(12345);
rc.statusCode("OPEN");
```

Pass the 'rc' object to the request:
```
rsr.setReportComment(rc);
```

Once the request is configured, carry out the call:
```
ReportServiceResponse rs=rsc.remoteReportCall(rsr);
```
Initialize the Report web service. Click here to learn how to do this.

The response returned will contain the following parameter:
Response Element
Data Type
Description
StatusCode
String
Status of the web service call. Possible values include:
SUCCESS
FAILURE

Complete Example

Below is a full example of this function. To use it for yourself, carry out the following the steps:

Copy the code and save it as ws_commentstatus.jsp.
Put the file in the root folder, which is Yellowfin/appserver/webapps/ROOT.
Adjust host, port, and admin user to add details according to your environment.
Run http://<host>:<port>/ws_commentstatus.jsp from your Internet browser.

<%           
/*              ws_commentstatus.jsp              */
%>
 
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
<%@ page import="com.hof.util.*, java.util.*, java.text.*" %> 
<%@ page import="com.hof.web.form.*" %>
<%@ page import="com.hof.mi.web.service.*" %>
<%@ page import="javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext" %>
<%@ page import="javax.xml.bind.Marshaller" %>
<%@ page import="java.io.StringWriter" %>
<%@ page import="javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement" %>
<%@ page import="javax.xml.namespace.QName" %>
<%
/*
  Create Group
  Using Java generated stubs rather that using the Yellowfin webservices API..
*/

ReportService rsc = new ReportService();   //("localhost", 8080, "admin@yellowfin.com.au", "test", "/services/ReportService");
	ReportServiceRequest rsr = new ReportServiceRequest();
	rsr.setLoginId("admin@yellowfin.com.au");
	rsr.setPassword("test");
	rsr.setOrgId(new Integer(1));
	rsr.setReportRequest("COMMENTSTATUS");
	
	ReportComment rc=new ReportComment();
	rc.setReportId(60712);
	rc.setCommentId(12345);
	rc.statusCode("OPEN");
	rsr.setReportComment(rc);
	ReportServiceResponse rs=rsc.remoteReportCall(rsr);
	if ("SUCCESS".equals(rs.getStatusCode())) {
		  JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(ReportServiceResponse.class);
	        Marshaller m = context.createMarshaller();
	        m.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE); // To format XML
	        JAXBElement<ReportServiceResponse> rootElement = new JAXBElement<ReportServiceResponse>(new QName("ReportServiceResponse"), ReportServiceResponse.class, rs);
	        m.marshal(rootElement,out);
		//out.write("Success");
	} else {
		out.write("Failure");
		out.write(" Code: " + rs.getErrorCode());
	} 
%>

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