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Scheduling a Report Task

This topic describes how you can schedule a report task in your program using the time condition and trigger. The properties for scheduling reports are available in the jet.cs.util.APIConst class in the Report Javadoc.

This topic contains the following sections:

• Scheduling a Report Task Using Time Condition
• Scheduling a Report Task Using Trigger

Scheduling a Report Task Using Time Condition

The following introduces how to schedule a report task in your program using time condition. You can also refer to the API sample APIDemoPublishRpt.java in <install_root>\help\samples\APIServer for additional information.

1. Connect to Report Server:

   RptServer server = null;
server = HttpUtil.getHttpRptServer();

2. Set the schedule task properties.

   The following example publishes the report Employee Information List.cls in the Public Reports > SampleReports folder to disk in the PDF format.

   // Set task properties
   Properties props = new Properties();
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_TASK_CLASS, APIConst.TASK_TO_RPT);
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_LAUNCH_TYPE, String.valueOf(APIConst.IMMEDIATELY));
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_CATALOG, "/SampleReports/SampleReports.cat");
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_REPORT, "Employee Information List.cls");
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_TO_DISK, "true");
   							
   // TO Disk 
   // Set the value of PDF for TO_DISK
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_TO_PDF, "true");
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_PDF, "Employee Information List.cls.pdf");
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_REPORT_LANGUAGE, "en_US");
   String today = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG, new Locale("en", "US")).format(new Date());
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_PDF_DIR, "/SampleReports");

3. Submit and trigger the task:

   String taskID = server.submitScheduledTask("admin", props);

4. Get the task result:

   CompletedTaskTable completeTable = server.getCompletedTaskTable();

5. Shut down the server:

   server.shutdown();

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Scheduling a Report Task Using Trigger

The following introduces how to schedule a report task using trigger in your program. You can also refer to the API sample DemoTrigger.java in <install_root>\help\samples\APIServer for additional information.

1. Connect to Report Server:

   // get instance of RptServer
   RptServer svr = RemoteReportServerToolkit.getRemoteWrappedRptServer("127.0.0.1", "1129");
   TriggerManager trigMan = svr.getTriggerManager();
   String exTriggerName = "exTriggerDemo";
   if (!trigMan.contains(exTriggerName)) {
   trigMan.createTrigger(exTriggerName, "an external trigger demo");
   }

2. Set the schedule task properties.

   The following example publishes the report Payroll Report.cls in the Public Reports > SampleReports folder to the versioning system in the PDF format.

   Properties props = new Properties();
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_TASK_CLASS, APIConst.TASK_TO_RPT);
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_LAUNCH_TYPE, String.valueOf(APIConst.IMMEDIATELY));
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_TRIGGERS_LOGIC, "ONLY");
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_TRIGGERS_ARRAY, "exTriggerDemo");
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_CATALOG, "/SampleReports/SampleReports.cat");
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_REPORT, "/SampleReports/Payroll Report.cls");
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_TO_VERSION, "true");
   props.put(APIConst.TAG_TO_VERSION_PDF, "true");

3. Submit the task:

   taskID = svr.submitScheduledTask("admin", props);

4. Trigger the task:

   Properties userData = new Properties();
trigMan.fire(exTriggerName, userData);

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