Can anyone tell me how to list and/or update the report properties for multiple reports without having to open and view/modify the properties for each report individually from Developer Studio or the Managed Reporting Environment (MRE)?

I'm specifically interested in viewing the data server property for multiple reports, and then bulk updating the property for these reports according to a set of criteria.

Ideally, I would be able to view the report properties in a format that's similar to the table below.

Fex name Data Server
-------- -----------
rpt1.fex prod_db
rpt2.fex test_db
rpt3.fex test_db
rpt4.fex dev_db

I'd then like to update the Data Server to "test_db" for all reports in the list.

Thanks for your help.

We're using WebFOCUS 7.6.1 on UNIX (Solaris.)

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

I don't understand the question. As far as I know, there is no "data server property" for a fex, MRE or otherwise. Usually, the data server is not mentioned in the fex code - could you please post a snippet of code that specifies the data server?

Unfortunately there is no easy way that I know of to edit the properties for multiple procedures at once. (Francis - from the right click on the procedure in DS and select properties, not within the procedure itself.) The only way I cane think of to do this is to use the mrmigrate tool to extract the structure into an XML file, manually edit it, changing the property for the desired procedures, and then use the edited XML file to reload the structure. There are a few examples of this on the forum (maybe search for mrmigrate) . But this seems like a LOT of work for something so simple (unless we're talking of changing hundreds of procedures' properties.) This would be an excellent suggestion for a new feature request!

Francis, Darin - thanks for your replies.

There are potentially a large number of reports that we would need to change (sorry I didn't mention this in my OP), but the most important thing is being able to identify WHICH ones need to be changed. Darin - thanks for the tip about mrmigrate tool -- I'll plan to poke around on the forum and see what else I can find out.

Also, after my OP, someone else pointed out to me that the html file associated with each domain on the UNIX file system will contain a "node=XXX" (XXX is data server property) for each FEX for which the default Server for the domain has been overriden. (Not sure if this is the case for non-UNIX platforms.)

Thanks again.

That's correct - for the time being. You can actually edit the HTM file (backup first!) for the domain and just search/replace in the desired spots. My understanding is that in the future, the mechanism for storing the structure of the domains will not be an HTM file any longer, so this wouln't be an option. For now, it works.