How to set a webi report's caching format?

Question

Hello Community,
I have come to a hurdle that I can not conquer on my own and for as much as I have tried can not find samples or documents on how to accomplish this.
I am writing code to schedule webi reports and the piece that handles the caching format and locales keeps failing. I have used 2 approaches:
The first approach I used the IWebiProcessingInfo.getPrecacheTypes()
here is some reference:
Webi document: webi (IInfoObject)
caching: an panelcontaining a list object containing the selected locales
try {
            if (caching.getFormatOptionExcel()) {
                ((IWebiProcessingInfo) webi).setPreCacheXLSEnabled(true);
                loadLocales(IPrecacheType.CeOutputType.OUTPUT_XLS, caching.getSelelectedLocales());
} catch (SDKException ex) {
            Exceptions.printStackTrace(ex);
private void loadPreCacheAndLocales(int type, List locales) throws SDKException {
        IPrecacheType pt = ((IWebiProcessingInfo) webi).getPrecacheTypes().add(type);
        pt.getLocales().clear();
        pt.getLocales().addAll(locales);
Although this bit of code executes successfully, when you try reschedule the object via the CMC I get a null pointer exception on the web page.
The second approach I used is: ReportEngine preloadOutputCache(int, String, OutputCacheEntry[])
try {
if (caching.getFormatOptionExcel()) {
                ((IWebiProcessingInfo) webi).setPreCacheXLSEnabled(true);
                ReportEngine wbe = getWebiEngine();
                wbe.preloadOutputCache(webi.getID(), agent.getSeverName(),
                    new OutputCacheEntry[]{new OutputCacheEntry(OutputFormatType.XLS, caching.getSelectedLocalesAsArray())});
} catch (SDKException ex) {
            Exceptions.printStackTrace(ex);
This approach erros out with the following:
com.businessobjects.sdk.core.exception.common.NotImplementedException: This feature is not implemented. (Error: RWI 00013)
  at com.businessobjects.sdk.core.exception.ExceptionBuilder.make(ExceptionBuilder.java:144)
  at com.businessobjects.sdk.core.exception.ExceptionBuilder.make(ExceptionBuilder.java:115)
  at com.businessobjects.rebean.wi.internal.WIReportEngine.preloadOutputCache(WIReportEngine.java:519)
Anybody know whats going on or perhaps point me in the right direction on how to correctly set the caching format and local for a webi document.
Thanks guys!

Answer 1

Is there a way to get the "CSV-Archive" option from CMS?
Customization of existing options or features in CMC is not available, it will become an enhancement request, you have to place this request in SAP Idea place.
WebIntelligence Rich client is a desktop tool, auto schedule of reports as .csv is not possible, save as CSV and save as to "CSV Archive" from Rich Client is a manual job.
BI launch pad, CMC are BOE Server components have the ability to auto schedule as .csv, as a default behavior column headers will be exported to CSV along with report data.
As a workaround, have a copy of original wibi reports in your webi reports you have to hide table headers and schedule them to save as .csv
To hide table headers:
Edit the report -> Select table block properties -> Chose 'Format Table' -> Under 'General' properties 'Display' options un-check "Show table headers"