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Running a Siebel Report from Actuate e.Report Designer Professional

You can run a Siebel report from Actuate e.Report Designer Professional connected to a Siebel Dedicated Web Client. You can see the run-time behavior of the Siebel report, set break points, and so on.

To run a Siebel report from Actuate e.Report Designer Professional

1. If a Siebel Dedicated Web Client is running on your desktop, close it. Open the Actuate e.Report Designer Professional software.
2. Choose File > Open and navigate to aclist.rod in \Siebdev\RPTSRC\ENU\STANDARD.

   If your installation uses a non-English version of Siebel eBusiness Applications, you do not have an \ENU folder. Instead, you have a folder in the appropriate language code for your installation, such as \DEU for German.

   See the Global Deployment Guide on the Siebel Bookshelf for a list of three-letter International Standards Organization (ISO) language extensions.

3. Click the Run button to compile and execute the report.
4. Click OK to accept any defaults on the Requester dialog box that appears.

   The Requester dialog box contains a listing of the parameters for the report such as ssOLEServer and ssPassword.

   This provides the means to communicate parameter values to the report.

5. You might see an error message, such as:

   OLE Server couldn't be started.

   Continue to click OK on any other subsequent error messages and close the Actuate Output window.

6. Open Siebel Sales Dedicated Web Client from the Start menu.
7. From the application-level menu, choose Navigate > Site Map > Opportunities > Opportunities.

   The wrong view is intentionally being opened to demonstrate the result.

   Return to Actuate e.Report Designer Professional with the Siebel application still open.

8. Run the report again by clicking the Run button.
9. Click OK to accept any defaults on the Requester dialog box.

   The report produced contains information different from the information contained in the My Opportunities list.

10. Click the View Report button on the Actuate e.Report Professional tool bar and return to the Siebel Sales application.
11. From the application-level menu, choose Navigate > Site Map > Accounts > Accounts.
12. From the Show drop-down list, choose My Accounts.
13. Return to Actuate e.Report Designer Professional and click the Run button.

    This time, the Account List report should run successfully.

This exercise demonstrates that a Siebel report does not run locally in Actuate unless two conditions are met:

• A Siebel Dedicated Web Client application is running, making the Siebel software available as an OLE container.
• The current view in the application is based on the correct business object for supplying data to the report being run. In the case of the example, a report listing account data requires that a view based on the Accounts business object be active.

Since a user executes Siebel reports only from the views in which they are designed to be run, these kinds of errors do not occur in a properly configured Siebel application.

Note that when the user restricts the data in the view with a query, only the data meeting the query constraints appears in the report. The Siebel application passes only the data from the current query to the Actuate viewer.