system.report.executeReport

Description

Immediately executes an existing report and returns a byte[] of the output.

Syntax

This function accepts keyword arguments.

system.report.executeReport ( path, project, [parameters], fileType )

  • Parameters

String path - The path to the existing report.

String project - The name of the project where the report is located. Optional in client scope.

PyDictionary parameters - A optional dictionary of parameter overrides, in the form name:value.

String fileType - The file type the resulting byte array should represent. Acceptable values are "pdf", "html", "csv", "rtf", "jpeg", "png", or "xml". Defaults to "pdf". Not case-sensitive

  • Returns

byte[] - A byte array of the resulting report.

  • Throws

IllegalArgumentException - Thrown when any of the following occurs: If the file type is not recognized, path does not exist, project does not exist.

  • Scope

All

Code Examples
Code Snippet
#Executes the report, overriding two parameters
overrides = {"myStringParam":"Hello world", "myIntParam":3}
bytesArray = system.report.executeReport(path="My Path", project="My Project", parameters=overrides, fileType="pdf")