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Mustafa_A
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3 years ago
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How to call Data Adapter in a Business Rule?

I'm working with a BI Viewer and working out how to sort the dates within the Time data set. Is their an API that allows to call the data adapter used within a dashboard? Currently the dates on the...
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  • Mustafa_A's avatar
    Mustafa_A
    3 years ago

    Hi MarkHoughton 

    Apologies that I wasn't able to update this post earlier. But I was able to find a fix to this date issue - 

    You would need to switch this to TRUE

    Now go back to your BI-Viewer. This should add "Start" and "End" Date data-items. Drag it to your argument pane and that should fix the dates on the axis. Hope this helps you save development time.

     

     

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ChrisLoran
Valued Contributor
3 years ago

Yes you can call a Data Adapter using this method:
brapi.Dashboards.Process.GetAdoDataSetForAdapter

This is a snippet from which you should be able to adapt for your purposes, so you can get time-sorted pivot tables/pivot grids.

Dim dctVars As New Dictionary(Of String, String)
dctVars.Add("Cube", "MyCubeName")
dctVars.Add("Entity", "E1001")
dctVars.Add("SomeOtherParamX", "XXXX")
dctVars.Add("SomeOtherParamY", "YYYY")

Using ds As DataSet = brapi.Dashboards.Process.GetAdoDataSetForAdapter(si, False, "AdapterName", "ResultsTable", dctVars)
    If ds.Tables.Count > 0 Then ' -- If there are >0 tables in the results
        Using dt As DataTable = ds.Tables(0).Copy()

            For Each dr As DataRow In dt.Rows
                Dim strTime As String = dr("Time").ToString()
                If strTime.Length = 6 Then
                    ' convert e.g. 2022M1 to 2022M01
                    strTime = strTime.Substring(0, 5) & "0" & strTime.Substring(5, 1)
                    dr("Time") = strTime
                End If
            Next

            Return dt ' --- return this modified table to the BI Analytics component

        End Using
    End If
End Using



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Mustafa_A
Contributor II
3 years ago

Hi ChrisLoran 

Very helpful post.

What is the purpose of  dctVars?

Dim dctVars As New Dictionary(Of String,String)
dctVars.Add("Cube","MyCubeName")
dctVars.Add("Entity","E1001")
dctVars.Add("SomeOtherParamX","XXXX")
dctVars.Add("SomeOtherParamY","YYYY")

 

and how do you reference this rule within Dashboard BI component? 

  • rhankey's avatar
    rhankey
    Contributor
    3 years ago

    To pass-in any optional parameters to the data adapter.