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About Downloading Reports with the ReportExecute Method

The ReportExecute method provides a means to execute and download reports without using the Oracle CRM On Demand user interface. You can then share those reports with others.

You can download reports in the following formats:

• Comma separated values (CSV)
• Excel spreadsheet (XLS)
• MIME HTML (MHTML)
• Portable document format (PDF)
• Text (Txt)

Users can use the Oracle CRM On Demand Report Services API to obtain specific reports on a regular basis. Administrators can use software tools to automate report generation and send the reports on a scheduled basis. Also, administrators can provide faster response times for popular analytic reports by generating them every morning, thus calculating some of the values used in future runs of the report.

To use the ReportExecute method you must create reports in Oracle CRM On Demand and save those reports in a shared folder. Also, you must acquire a download tool, such as cURL or Wget or use a scripting language such as JavaScript or Perl. The download tool's purpose is to call the Oracle CRM On Demand Report Services API to generate a report and then to retrieve the report to your computer. cURL and Wget are examples of such download tools but you can use any tool of your choice that can post a request to the API and get a response back.