Passing dynamic prompt values.

Hello,
I have around 250 Webi reports that i need to schedule to run on a monthly basis, and using the scheduled month/year as prompt value.
What is the best way i can accomplish this?
If i set an individual report to run recurrently every month, it will always use the prompt's default values or the values i set manually at the CMC, but that doesnt work for me because i need the prompts to be different each time they run..
I cant use the magic date solution because 99% of the reports use UserResponse() for year and month on table headers and similar.
Is this possible with coding? Can i code a script and schedule it to run every month, that will run through my list of reports to pass them the correct prompt and refresh them?
What is the recommended way to achieve something like this?
I already have a VB script that schedules an individual report to run immediatly, but i cant pass the prompts..
Thank you for your patience

Hi Oscar,
I have attached a JSP file (renamed to .txt) with the code i used to fill the prompts dynamically with date variables (year, month, full date, etc).
You will need some libs. You should copy another web application deployed on the bo server tomcat and use that folder or read the SDK manual for the exact necessary libs - sorry, I have read this list somewhere but i cant remember where.
This code is not exactly great, far from it, but it has some comments and should give you a helpful start. I wish I had this when i needed it.
You need to know a bit of java to understand it.
After you have this working you just need to call the JSP to schedule the reports. We used a vbscript scheduled on the Windows Task Scheduler to call this every month. Each JSP schedules an entire folder full of reports.
Cheers, and good luck.
Fernando

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