Integration Knowage (community) with external systems

Question

Please answer on two small questions
1. How we can execute process of report making in Knowage (community) from external systems (eg using REST, CLI etc.)?
2. How we can give access to Knowage (community) report to our users without registration in Knowage (eg SSO, share report by link etc.)?

Answer 1

Dear ustas

first of all, please open a new thread with one question only.

Anyhow:

1. REST API are documented in Apiary . The document content subresource is conceived for documents execution, but it is available only for static reports (JasperReports and Birt reports) at the moment.

2. When executing a document, if user's role is enabled (check role authorizations), he can get the direct link to the document (execution toolbar --> Copy Link functionality). In case the document is public (i.e. executable by a role that is set to be public), then no authentication is required, otherwise user has to authenticate.

For SSO, you can use CAS (documentation here), or even other systems, but a custom implementation is required in that case. The API to be implemeted are described in SpagoBI wiki, check these links:

http://wiki.spagobi.org/xwiki/bin/view/spagobi_server/User+Management_v3#HConnectors

http://wiki.spagobi.org/xwiki/bin/view/spagobi_server/sso#HHowtoenableSSO

Hope this helps