There are a couple of things that you need to do to get this to work.
1. The user who is viewing the report has to have a log-in to BusinessObjects.
2. The minimum correct format for the OpenDocument link is:
xxx
The valid value for sIDType is "CUID". You can get the CUID and SI_ID values from the properties of the report in the CMC. if you use the SI_ID value for iDocID, you don't need the sIDType parameter.
NOTE 1: Using sIDType and iDocID tends to be MUCH more stable than using sType and SDocName because you can potentially have multiple reports with the same name.
NOTE 2: If you're passing session information to the URL, you CANNOT use the same session over and over again - at some point it will expire and the link will no longer work.
You can get the OpenDocument Documentation in the Development Information section for your version of BO at
If you still can't get it to work, please post the full URL of what you're trying to do
without "
in front of it so that it doesn't get automatically converted to a link. I'll take a look at it to see if I see anything might be wrong with it.
-Dell
DecisionFirst Technologies - Seven-time SAP BusinessObjects Solution Partner of the Year
