Scheduling to a Specific Format

The location of the output format setting is slightly strange in that it really is only relevant in the context of scheduling, so it might make more sense in the ISchedulingInfo interface, but instead it's found in the IReport interface. The IReport interface is obtained by casting from an IInfoObject interface. The following code obtains the IReport interface for an InfoObject:

IInfoObjects results = iStore.query("SELECT SI_ID FROM CI_INFOOBJECTS WHERE" +
    " SI_NAME='World Sales Report' AND SI_INSTANCE=0");
IInfoObject infoObject = (IInfoObject) results.get(0);

IReport report = (IReport) infoObject;

After this interface is obtained, there are many methods available. The following sections focus on the relevant ...

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