Getting destination of scheduled WEBI report using Rest API?

Question

The thing I want to accomplish is to run a report instance from the SAP BO portal with the same parameters (Document type, destination, etc) as given during scheduling the report. This can be done on the BI portal in the following way: (Right Click on the) Report -> (Select) History -> (Right Click on any pending) schedule -> Select Run Now

(A new instance is created and the destination and format remains the same) The solution I was trying, is to get details of a schedule nd use the same parameters and run the report now.

I tried using this URIs:

1. Get http:///v1///schedules/<schedule_id> (Gives details of the schedule)
2. Get http:///v1///instances/<instance_id> (Gives details of the instances of the schedule)

Both the responses don't have the destination details. My question is how do I get the destination details? Or is there any other way to accomplish running an instance of a schedule now?

PS: The report has already been scheduled in the portal, I just want to run an instance of the report through the Rest API and keep the parameters(including the destination paramter) same as that for the schedule.

Any help would be really appreciated ☺️

Thank you.

Answer 1

It's simple: if you don't see the destination details in the response, the scheduled report is using the default destination. Excerpt from API docu:

(GET .../documents//schedules/)

Is optional. If no destination is specified, then the default destination is the one defined by the administrator on the BI platform via the CMC ( Servers Web Intelligence Services Adaptive Job Server Destination )

I don't know whether it is possible to retrieve the server default destination, but I assume not.