Automatically schedule FR or IR reports to create Excel files???

Question

Hello,
My client asked me to 1) create reports against Essbase cubes, 2) automate the update of the reports to Excel files and 3) email the results to various people. In the first phase of this project I was able to do some of this as follows:
1) Created FR reports.
2) Scheduled the update of the FR reports to PDF files using the scheduler in Hyperion Workspace. NOTE: I created PDF files because that is the only thing that the scheduler can automatically produce from FR reports.
3) Created an Excel VBA application that emails the PDF files to a variable list of recipients (each report goes to a different list of people).
Now we are entering the second phase of this project and the client is asking to have the reports created in Excel files instead of PDF.
***** Questions *****
1) Can an IR report be scheduled using the Hyperion Scheduler in Hyperion Workspace to create Excel files?
2) Is there a utility (either Hyperion or other) that can convert PDF files to Excel files with the exact formatting of the original PDF?
Thank you,
Bill H

Answer 1

Thank you for your reply. After your reply I looked in the Hyperion Workspace User Guide and found how to schedule an IR report to create an Excel file. I think the next thing I am trying to determine is how to do "bursting" in IR. I currently have an FR report that gets data from Essbase. I have scheduled this in Workspace to run for all children of a member (or a different example would be all zero level decendants of a member). The Workspace scheduler allows me to create a file for each member and to add the member name to each filename so that they are different. Can I do the same type of thing with IR?
Thank you,
Bill H