XIA Configuration Administrator's Guide

The following example executes a report binder, saves the output as a PDF file or Microsoft Word document and opens the file in the default document viewer.

• Connect to the reporting web service.
  
  
• Specify the file format as either "DOCX" or "PDF".
  
  
• Specify the unique identifier of the report binder to execute in GUID format.
  
  
• Specify the customer or container against which to execute the report binder, by default this is the root container with identifier 1000.
  
  
• Optionally set the report binder parameter values.
  
  
• The user must have permissions to execute this report binder.

Code Sample

# Set the file format to DOCX/PDF.

$fileformat = "DOCX";

$reportBinderIdentifier = [Guid]"0f22bce4-7428-4a11-84a5-9e23abfbcb71";

# Generate the execution settinsg.

$executionSettings = $reporting.DO_CreateReportBinderExecutionSettings($reportBinderIdentifier);

# Optionally set the customer or container.

$executionSettings.ContainerId = 1000;

# Execute the report binder.

$documentPackage = $reporting.DO_ExecuteReportBinder($executionSettings, $fileformat);

# Save and open the file.

$filename = "$($env:TEMP)\$($documentPackage.Filename)"

[IO.File]::WriteAllBytes($filename, $documentPackage.FileData);

[System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($filename); 

For information about setting report parameters see the Execute a Report (Advanced) example.