Execute a Report Binder to PDF

The following example executes a report binder, saves the output as a PDF document and opens the file in the default PDF document viewer.

Connect to the reporting web service.
Specify the unique identifier of the report binder to execute in GUID format.
Specify the customer or container against which to execute the report binder, by default this is the root container with identifier 1000.
Optionally set the report binder parameter values.
The user must have permissions to execute this report binder.

Code Sample

# Executes the report binder and saves the output as a PDF file in the user's temp directory.

$filename = "$env:TEMP\ReportBinderOutput.pdf"

$reportBinderIdentifier = [Guid]"7993bda0-6085-423f-8b03-80b196cde299";

$parameterValues = $reporting.GET_DefaultReportBinderParameterValues($reportBinderIdentifier);

$output = $reporting.DO_ExecuteReportBinderPdf($reportBinderIdentifier, $parameterValues, 1000);

[IO.File]::WriteAllBytes($filename, $output);

[System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($filename);

For information about setting report parameters see the Execute a Report to PDF example.