Schedule a report (Crystal, Crystal Reports for Enterprise) with params, create PDF, retrieve ID and filestore URL, using RESTFul WS.
I thought this would be simple but I have struggled for 3 days on trying to get this to work. First, Standard Crystal Report doesn't seem to be supported using web services. I converted the Crystal Report 2013 version to Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4 and went through several explanations..
1. I am able to create a logon token (X-SAP-LogonToken)
2. What I need to do is the following:
a. Call a RESTFul webservice to schedule a report with parameters. This schedule should run "now" and create a PDF file in the default location specified in BI.
b. I need to extract the details of that schedule, ID, PID, File Location URL, ex. and pass that data back to the calling application (which is also a webservice)
The documentation is very unclear on how to do this. Would this be better handled through a custom Java or .NET application? I would assume that this is a very common request and I'm not sure why this information isn't easily accessible.as far as the RESTFul WS API is concerned.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Branden