Is com.businessobjects.sdk.ceutils.prompts.PromptsUtil deprecated ?

Question

Hi
Is there a way to confirm if com.businessobjects.sdk.ceutils.prompts.PromptsUtil has been deprecated for  BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 SP4 ?
I see the following posts saying that it could be a documentation error and it has not been deprecated for web intelligene but nothing specific to my version
BOE 3.1 Service Pack 2 SDK changes
Schedule webi with prompts problem
If it has been deprecated whats the correct way for populating webi prompts ?
Thanks

Answer 1

Our code is similar to what you have, but if we don't use the .refresh command, the new values are not populated on the report. Do you have any idea why? Our issue is that when it schedueles the report, it doesn't return quickly. It waits until the report is done.  Here is our code:
public static void sendReport
(    IEnterpriseSession eSession,
String TstPrdFlag,
      int jobControlId,
      String docId,
      int format,
      String mimeType,
      String filepath
try
IInfoStore infoStore = (IInfoStore) eSession.getService("InfoStore");
//get WebI doc
IInfoObjects infoObjects = infoStore.query("Select TOP 1 * From CI_INFOOBJECTS Where "
                     + " SI_KIND='Webi' And SI_INSTANCE=0 "
                     + " And SI_ID = '" + docId + "'");
IWebi webi   = (IWebi) infoObjects.get(0);
ISchedulingInfo schedInfo = webi.getSchedulingInfo();
//============================================================================
     // Set Prompts
     //============================================================================
     if (webi.hasPrompts())
          try
               ReportEngine reportEngine = (ReportEngine) eSession.getService("WebiReportEngine");
               DocumentInstance docInst = (DocumentInstance) reportEngine.openDocument(webi.getID());
               docInst.refresh();
          Prompts prompts = docInst.getPrompts();
          for (int j = 0; j < prompts.getCount(); j++)
             // assumes only a single value per prompt - no MultiValues
                 Prompt prompt = prompts.getItem(j);
                 String [] vals = new String[1];
                 vals[0] = getParameter (TstPrdFlag, jobControlId, prompt.getName());
                 //System.out.println(prompt.getName()+ " " + vals[0]);
                 prompt.enterValues(vals);
          docInst.setPrompts();
                    docInst.refresh();
                    docInst.save();
                    //getSQL (docInst);
                    //DataProvider dp = docInst.getDataProviders().getItem(0); // retrieve the DataProvider that you would like the SQL for
                    //String sql = dp.getQuery().getSQL(); // the SQL out of the DataProvider
                    //System.out.println(sql);
                    //PromptsUtil.populateWebiPrompts(prompts, webi);
                    docInst.closeDocument();
             reportEngine.close();
          catch (REException e)
e.printStackTrace();
     //===========================================================================
     // Format as Excel or PDF
     //===========================================================================
     webi.getWebiFormatOptions().setFormat(format);
//===========================================================================
     // send to disk
     //===========================================================================
            //Get the destination object from schedulingInfo
     IDestination destinationObject = schedInfo.getDestination();
     //IDestinations destinations = schedInfo.getDestinations();
             //IDestination destinationObject = (IDestination) destinations.get(0);
             // Specify that we are writing to disk
             destinationObject.setName("CrystalEnterprise.DiskUnmanaged");
             // Get the Destination plug-in. Note that the SI_PARENTID will always be 29.
             IDestinationPlugin destinationPlugin = (IDestinationPlugin)
                       infoStore.query("SELECT * FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_NAME='CrystalEnterprise.DiskUnmanaged'").get(0);
             destinationObject.copyToPlugin(destinationPlugin);
             IDiskUnmanagedOptions diskUnmanagedOptions = (IDiskUnmanagedOptions) destinationPlugin.getScheduleOptions();
             diskUnmanagedOptions.getDestinationFiles().add(filepath);
             destinationObject.setFromPlugin(destinationPlugin);
//===========================================================================
     // Schedule WebI report to run once now
     //===========================================================================
     schedInfo.setRightNow(true);
     schedInfo.setType(CeScheduleType.ONCE);
// Tell the CMS to schedule the report.
infoStore.schedule (infoObjects);
} catch (SDKException e)
throw new Error ("Failed to schedule report. Exception caught: " + e.getMessage());