WebService doesn't use PromptValue on [EMPTY] values

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm developping in a jsp page scheduling a job on a Business Objects Enterpise server XI R2 SP4.

The report has a parameter, which must be modified with a given value:

The problem arrives if the parameter of my report has no default value set thru the CMC: no matter the value I'll give, the report scheduling will occur in a failed report. When looking at the history of this report thru the CMC, The given parameter won't be used.

Now, If I set a default value to this parameter in the CMS, the given value thru this program will be used ( the default value isn't used) , and the scheduling will work: In the history of this report, the occurence will be marked as "complete".

Easy solution would be that all my reports should have a default value for their parameters: but there are too many, and itsn't a god solution.

A more nice solution would be to find out why this is happening, and how can I solve this in the code ?

p.s.: the report that I try to generate is a .rpt (Crystal Report).

Thanks for your help.

[aasavaribhave · Accepted solution]

This is a regression issue and is targeted to get fixed in Fix pack 5.5 on XI R2. Appearently if you can downgrade to XI R2 SP3 it should work.

[Former Member]

Thank you Aasavari : I re-installed a new XI R2 SP2 Business Objects enterprise server ( I couldn't downgrade from SP4 to SP3)., and now this works.

[Former Member]

Here is the code: sorry I have some layout problems with this forum 😐

          final String baseUri = "http://myserver:18080/dswsbobje/services/";
          final String login = new String("administrator");
          final String password = new String("adminpass");


          URL boConURL = new URL(baseUri + "session");
          Connection boConnection = new Connection(boConURL);
          
          EnterpriseCredential boCredential = new EnterpriseCredential();
          boCredential.setLogin(login);
          boCredential.setPassword(password);
          Session boSession = new Session(boConnection);
          SessionInfo boSI = boSession.login(boCredential);
          
          URL bipConURL = new URL(baseUri + "biplatform");
          boConnection.setURL(bipConURL);
          BIPlatform bipService = new BIPlatform(boConnection, boSession.getConnectionState());
          return bipService;
          
          
          ResponseHolder rh = bipService.get("path://InfoObjects/" + request.getParameter("reportPath") + "@SI_SCHEDULEINFO,SI_PROCESSINFO", null);
          // <a class="jive_macro jive_macro_thread" href="" __jive_macro_name="thread" modifiedtitle="true" __default_attr="938225"></a>
          InfoObjects reports = rh.getInfoObjects();
          if (reports == null) {
              return;
          }
          
          step = "CrystalReport scheduleReport";
          CrystalReport myReport = (CrystalReport)reports.getInfoObject(0);
          SchedulingInfo schedulingInfo = myReport.getSchedulingInfo();
          
          boolean newSchedulingInfo = false;
          if (schedulingInfo == null) {
              schedulingInfo = new SchedulingInfo();
              newSchedulingInfo = true;
          }

          schedulingInfo.setRightNow(Boolean.TRUE);
          schedulingInfo.setScheduleType(ScheduleTypeEnum.ONCE);
         
          
          Destinations destinations = (Destinations)schedulingInfo.getDestinations();
          if(destinations ==null) { destinations = new Destinations(); }
          DiskUnmanagedScheduleOptions diskUnmanagedOptions = new DiskUnmanagedScheduleOptions();
          
          DestinationFiles  destinationFiles = diskUnmanagedOptions.getDestinationFiles() ;
          if(destinationFiles ==null) { destinationFiles = new DestinationFiles(); }
          
          String destinationFile[] = new String[1];
          destinationFile[0] = outputFolder + request.getParameter("outputPdf");
          destinationFiles.setDestinationFile(destinationFile);
          
          
          diskUnmanagedOptions.setDestinationFiles(destinationFiles);
          
          Destination destination = new Destination();
          destination.setDestinationScheduleOptions(diskUnmanagedOptions);
          Destination dest[] = new Destination[1];
          dest[0] = destination;
          destinations.setDestination(dest); 
          
          schedulingInfo.setDestinations(destinations);



          ReportProcessingInfo reportProcessingInfo = myReport.getPluginProcessingInterface();

          ReportParameter[] repParams = reportProcessingInfo.getReportParameters().getParameters();
          if(repParams != null){
        
              //set the report parameter values
      
              CurrentValues oCurrentValues = new CurrentValues();
              repParams[1].setCurrentValues(oCurrentValues);
    
              PromptValue[] oPromptValue = new PromptValue[1];
              oPromptValue[0] = new PromptValue();
              oPromptValue[0].setData("5");
              
              oCurrentValues.setCurrentValue(oPromptValue);
    
              repParams[0].setCurrentValues(oCurrentValues);
          
          }



          out.write("***************************************************************<br/>");
          for (int j = 0; j < repParams.length; j++) {
            out.write(j+": "+ repParams[j].getParameterName().toString() + "<br/>");
            out.write(j+": "+ repParams[j].getCurrentValues().toString() + "<br/>");
            out.write(j+": "+ repParams[j].getValueType().toString() + "<br/>");
            out.write(j+": "+ repParams[j].getCurrentValues().getCurrentValue(0).getData() + "<br/>");
            
          }


          }
          CrystalReportFormatOptions crystalReportFormatOptions = reportProcessingInfo.getReportFormatOptions();

          if(crystalReportFormatOptions == null){
              crystalReportFormatOptions = new CrystalReportFormatOptions();
          }
          crystalReportFormatOptions.setFormat(ReportFormatEnum.PDF);
          reportProcessingInfo.setReportFormatOptions(crystalReportFormatOptions);
          myReport.setPluginProcessingInterface(reportProcessingInfo);
          if (newSchedulingInfo) {
              myReport.setSchedulingInfo(schedulingInfo);
          }
          bipService.schedule(reports);