Scheduled report in BO 5.1

[Former Member]

<p>Hello Gurus,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am new to Business Objects, just started using it last month</p><p>I have a particular requirement: i need to run a scheduled report query in business objects, then the output is to be written to a flat file.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What do i need to do this? Do i need a Job Server?</p><p>or can i create a tool that i can run on my local PC that will connect to BO in the background to perform the report query? the Output of the report will be a flat file Does BO allow background connections?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>planning to use SAP XI as the tool that will have a scheduled job to connect to BO and generate query then have the send back the result to XI as a flat file.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>can anyone help or give me advice if such scenario is possible with Business Objecs <br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Former Member]

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[robert_horne]

<p>Hi there.</p><p>Forgive me if my knowledge of the classic Business Objects products is a little weak. You listed that you are using BO 5.x. You also mentioned something about a Job Server which is only available in Business Objects XI. So I will try to answer both scenarios.</p><p> If you are using BO 5.x then you will probably be using Full Client Documents. If you want to use an external scheduler then you can use the BO SDK to open the doc, refresh and then save the data to text. If you want to use Business Objects scheduling then you would want to use the Broad Cast Agent (BCA) to schedule your report. We only have a COM SDK available for version 5.x </p><p>If you are using BusinessObects XI you would take advantage of the Job Server. You can use the BusinessObjects XI SDK to retrieve the report, and schedule to export to text. You can find samples of how to do this in the BOXI Code forum. We have a Java/.NET/ and COM SDK to be able to do this. You can find the documentation at http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/ </p><p>Rob Horne<br /><a href="/blog/10">Rob&#39;s blog - http://diamond.businessobjects.com/blog/10</a></p>;