We are trying to fetch the data displayed in an OTBI data model through an web service for further integrations. We use BI Publisher web services -> ReportServicesSoapBinding -> GetReportSampleData ->Requests1. But this gives us following error: Receiving respons HTTP/1.1 Connected / tunnel to target created / Sending request POST / Receiving response HTTP : Internal Server error PublicReportsServiceImpl::generateReportsSampleData for reportsAbsolutePath [] Failure: Due to oracle.xdo.servlet.CreateException: report definition not found Any idea what could cause this ? Thank you.

Hi Maria, Can you walk me through what webservice you're using? (full URL without your pod name will suffice). The method you're calling I'm assuming takes the following parameters; reportAbsolutePath, userID, password. However, you're calling the getReportSampleData() method, which will only return the sample data that is stored on the data model post-parameters (i.e. you create a data model, view the data and click 'save sample data' on the BI Publisher Data Model editor). This is pretty useless unless you're looking to seed an external integration with metadata or programmatically retrieving sample XML to build templates. The method you want is runReport(). runReport() takes in three parameters: reportRequest, userID, password. You'll need to build the reportRequest definition yourself to pass into the method, the details of which can be found here: The easiest way to get the information you need dynamically is to first run the getReportDefinition() method, which takes in three parameters: reportAbsolutePath, userID, password. This will output the required data needed by the reportRequest definition which gets passed into the runReport() method. Now, it should also be noted that you can either return the raw template file with data (e.g. pdf, csv, excel etc.) and manipulate it downstream, or you can return the reportData, which is base64 encoded and will need to be decoded to use the data. Both options are explained in the link above, and if you scroll down slightly there will be another section for ReportResponse. Thanks Aaron

Hi Maria, Certainly - first of all, are you authenticated? On the request page for SoapUI, in the bottom left-hand corner, there will be a little padlock icon followed by the word 'Auth'. Click on that, then enter your credentials using the 'Basic' authentication method (username + password). Secondly, there's an issue with your absolute path; it's currently attempting to read the entire url for the report path vs the absolute. Absolute Path: /Custom/Human Capital Management/Integrations/PAY101/PAY101Report.xdo Notice we omit the URL, and instead just include the path on BI to the report itself (including the report format, which will most likely be .xdo). Hopefully you should be able to get a response from the server now. Thanks Aaron

@maria.stanciu - You probably already know this info.... It might be related to this known issue with OTBI: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/otbi/otbi-known-issues/index.html#TBIKI-GUID-CA33B1C7-BECE-47F6-8675-6F06F9AC5A67 Also, Oracle changed the WSDL version from 22A onward. If you haven't already done so, you'll probably want to update your SOAP code to use the v12 WSDL. We had lots of headaches and broken method calls after the 22A update until we started using v12. The official documentation for OBIEE 12.2.1.4 (upon which OTBI 22A+ is based) is still wrong and says to use v6 or v7...those versions no longer work (see Release Notes link below). NOTE: The methods in v12 are changed from v6 and v7. Pay close attention to the order of parameters in your method calls since Oracle has rearranged them slightly (and added new parameters). https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/bi12214/biee/BIERN/toc.htm#GUID-774B49C5-D311-4471-AB1B-90C6C93B8C69

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Emil_M_ Rank 2 - Community Beginner

Aug 9, 2023 2:23PM

@maria.stanciu Bud how it worked on you? Please share your working file. I'm also getting report definition error.

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