How to bypass opendocument login screen in SAP BO

In this article I’d like to show you a simple example of how to bypass the opendocument login.

This is especially useful if you are trying to use an opendocument call to open up a web intelligence document from a 3rd party application.

It’s quite simple, and you can expand the example to use trusted authentication if desired.

Download the custom.jsp from here

Step No. 1                                                                              

First you will need to edit the custom.jsp file to fit your environment.

Set the CMS host to your host.

final String BO_CMS_NAME = “YOUR CMS NAME”;

You will see that I have hard coded a user and password

final String BO_USERNAME = “testuser”;
final String BO_PASSWORD = “testpassword”;

However you can dynamically set these if required.

In addition, you can use trusted authentication as well if you want enhanced security (Not covered in this article).

To learn about how to use trusted authentication, please visit How to bypass the BI Launchpad logon screen

Step No. 2                                                                              

Save the custom.jsp file and copy it to the SAP BOBJ Web server directory below

<SAP BOBJ Root Installation Directory>\SAP BusinessObjects\tomcat\work\Catalina\localhost\BOE\eclipse\plugins\webpath.OpenDocument\web\opendoc

Step No. 3                                                                              

Open the Central Configuration Manager and restart tomcat

Step No. 4                                                                              

Now let’s test it out! First we will retrieve an existing document link URL from a web intelligence document

Step No. 5                                                                              

Copy and paste the URL to notepad.

Then replace OpenDocument.jsp with custom.jsp as shown below

http://TPLBODEV:8080/BOE/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?sIDType=CUID&iDocID=AZj_BvC5hrhJuR02RWQ4XwM

to

http://TPLBODEV:8080/BOE/OpenDocument/opendoc/customjsp?sIDType=CUID&iDocID=AZj_BvC5hrhJuR02RWQ4XwM

Step No. 6                                                                              

Paste the new url onto your browser and confirm that the user automatically signs in and the web intelligence document opens up.

Note                                                                                        

Please make sure you backup the custom.jsp file because the file gets overridden whenever an upgrade is performed on SAP BusinessObjects