Developer's Guide

Using the Reporting API
Using Report Templates
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Step 2. Get the metadata
Request to get the report’s metadata by calling getMetaDataRequest. See “Step 2. Get
the metadata” on page 13.
Step 3. Get the report data
Request to get the report data by calling getDataRequest. See “Step 3. Get the report
data” on page 13.
Scheduling a Report Template
You can schedule a report template to run on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. The Reporting
API includes functionality to create schedules and to get the results of a scheduled report
template.
Step 1. Create a schedule
To create a schedule for a report template, call createScheduleRequest with the
following parameters.
createScheduleRequest(scheduleName, templateName, schedule)
Step 2. Get the results
To get the results of a scheduled report template that is run, call getScheduleRequest
with scheduleName as a parameter.
getScheduleRequest(schedulename)
reportParam(s) (Optional) paramName and paramValue for each reportParam that you
want to assign a value to. These parameters can be ones previously
saved in the report template or additional ones. The parameter values
take precedence over the values previously saved for the parameters in
the report template.
pageSize Number of rows of data per page. Default is 50.
scheduleName Name that you give to the schedule.
templateName Name of the report template to be scheduled.
schedule One of three values:
daily
weekly (select dayOfWeek value: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday)
monthly (Specify dayOfMonth value as an integer from 1 to 31. If you
specify 30 when the month is 28 days long, the value is corrected to
28.)
The time of the day starts at midnight the previous night. The value
daily, for example, means midnight the previous night to midnight
tonight.