Title:
Bug 74999:(Watson Migration Closure)Can we have an API to allow us to programmatically interrogate CFR files?
| View in TrackerStatus/Resolution/Reason: Closed/Deferred/
Reporter/Name(from Bugbase): Dave Boulden / Dave Boulden (dave_damedia)
Created: 01/15/2009
Components: Reporting, CFReport
Versions: 9.0
Failure Type: Unspecified
Found In Build/Fixed In Build: 0000 /
Priority/Frequency: Normal / Unknown
Locale/System: English / Platforms All
Vote Count: 2
Problem:
Can we have an API to allow us to programmatically interrogate CFR files?
It would allow automated prompts to be generated when viewing reports with parameters. It would be great if this proposed API allowed us to interrogate all properties on the contents of the report template, but specifically I’d like to see the ability to interrogate the Report properties, Query fields, Datasource name, the actual SQL query and most importantly, the input parameters (getting name, label, data-type and the design-time default value.
This ability would be particularly useful when allowing capable end-users to create their own reports with the Report Builder, but would remove much opportunity for errors when setting up configurations of the required parameter prompts, datasource etc to allow generated prompts for these user created CFR templates
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Watson Bug ID: 3037267
External Customer Info:
External Company:
External Customer Name: Dave Boulden
External Customer Email: 44E21D4242A0AD8E992016B6
External Test Config: 01/15/2009Attachments:
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