Generic applications

There are two methods you can use to retrieve report data in a generic application:

• The getPagedReportData method retrieves the first page of report output. The secondary methods next, previous, first, and last can be used to retrieve additional pages of report output.
• The getReportData method retrieves the complete report output. The output is retrieved as a single page unless includePageBreaks is true, in which case the report output is separated into pages. See Reports with multiple pages for more information.

To retrieve report output in a generic application, identify the report, using the sourceID and sourceType elements in the request. For more information, see Identifying reports.

When the asynchronous report data request completes, the report output is contained in the output child of GetOutputResponse. If the format option in the report data request is not used, the report output will be contained in the LDXOutput child of output, and this report data can be accessed using additional methods. If the format option is set, the report output will be contained in the FormatOutput child of output as a string object.