Within BOE XI, using the Java SDK, when scheduling a report, is there a way to store some string attributes onto the actual instance?

Question

Within BOE 4, using the Java SDK, when scheduling a report, is there a way to store some string attributes onto the actual instance?

Answer 1

You can add custom properties to any CMS object. For example:

IInfoObjects ios = oInfoStore.query("select * from ci_infoobjects where si_id = 5047825");
IInfoObject io = (IInfoObject) ios.get(0);
io.properties().add("MY_TESTPROP","test value",0);
oInfoStore.schedule(ios);

You could then retrieve the property with a regular CMS query:

select my_testprop from ci_infoobjects where si_parentid = 5047825

Note that this works just fine when scheduling one-time instances. If you're scheduling a recurring instance, then the custom property will be applied to the recurring instance itself, but not to the instances that the schedule produces.