[CASE-OPENED] GIF dimensions when distributed by caster

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I have a gif that I am sending through caster. In the fex I use the following to change the size of the resultant image...

ON GRAPH SET VAXIS 640
ON GRAPH SET HAXIS 1040
ON GRAPH PCHOLD FORMAT GIF

the problem is that the size settings seem to be ignored from caster. I can't seem to change the dimensions of the gif; no matter what i try, it is always 760x400 pixels.

Is there a way to change the dimensions of a gif that is sent via caster? I must send it as a stand alone gif, not embedded in pdf or anything like that...

thanks

Jodye

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Hi all,

FYI, it seems that Jodye already has a case opened for this issue, so we will wait to hear solution/updates from the case.

Cheers,

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Hi Kerry

I just got a solution that works. But requires multiple tasks..

1) save the GIF somewhere (via filedef) with ..
ON GRAPH SET VAXIS 400
ON GRAPH SET HAXIS 700
ON GRAPH HOLD AS XXX FORMAT GIF

2) distribute the graph that was saved in step 1.

These gifs are different dimensions depending on the values of vaxis and haxis.

So this is solved. :-)

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AS a corollary,
when you send a report via Outlook that is embedded in the body of the email and contains GRAPHTYPE gifs, you can see only empty space; outlook , not being a browser, can't evaluate the HEIGHT and WIDTH parameters of an IMG tag.
so i have to send my 'visualized' reports as an attachment, which i hate.
or have a link in the body of the email that says 'click to see the images', which reruns the report...with all the issues that entails.

Jodye, emailable gif be saved just in the agent?
and then castered?

...update: i just upgraded to Outlook 2007 and it DOES very nicely render the 1px-by-1px GRAPHTYPE images (that's 'visualize' to all you gui users) in your report when its included as the body of the email, no longer needing to be an attachment to get your browser to open. Yippee.

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Hi Susannah

I am not sure what you mean by just saved in the agent. You mean without holding it somewhere specific?

I am holding the gifs in a specific directory in task 1. And then in task 2 I am sending the gifs. I did not know until yesterday that we could have a task in caster that simply sends a file. If you look in bottask, the TASKTYPE is "FILE" and the TASKOBJ is the full path to the file.

So in my case I have a job with 5 tasks. The first one creates four gifs. And then tasks 2-5 each send one file. the result is that the user receives an email with 4 gif attachments.

My problem now is that I want the gifs to have the date in the name of the file. This is always an issue for us... so I will write a script to run nightly and update BOTTASK.

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Jodye,

Wouldn't a FILEDEF work to get the date in the name of the file?

-SET &FNAME = 'demo/' | &YYMD | '_graph.gif';

FILEDEF GRAPH1 DISK &FNAME
-RUN

GRAPH FILE CAR
SUM SALES
BY COUNTRY

HEADING CENTER
"World Sales"
" "

ON GRAPH SET STYLE *

TYPE=REPORT, FONT=ARIAL, SIZE=9, $
TYPE=HEADING, STYLE=BOLD, COLOR=GREEN, $
ENDSTYLE

ON GRAPH SET LOOKGRAPH PIE
ON GRAPH SET BARNUMB ON
ON GRAPH SET 3D ON
ON GRAPH SET VZERO ON
ON GRAPH SET GRID ON
ON GRAPH SET VAXIS 640
ON GRAPH SET HAXIS 1040

ON TABLE HOLD AS GRAPH1 FORMAT GIF
END
-RUN

"demo" is an app folder.

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yes exactly, Jodye.
the agent dir itself is the 'somewhere specific' that one would need ...you can grab the address using the TEMPPATH function
like this


-SET &temppath = TEMPPATH(60,'A60');
-SET &temppath = SUBSTR(60, &temppath, 6, 60, 55, 'A55');
-SET &AL       = ARGLEN(60,&temppath,'I2')  ;
-SET &LAL      ='A'|&AL;
-SET &temppath = '/cube' | SUBSTR(60,&temppath,1,&AL,&AL,'&LAL');
-WRITE MYAGENT &temppath

that's how i do it anyway,
so you don't have to filedef it to a spot outside the agent, just grab it from within the agent, and zap it off to someone.
That's what i meant.
Can you do that??

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Hi Guys

Francis: Yes I am specifying the file name in the fex dynamically. the problem is that the task in caster (bottask table) has the name of the file in it. So that needs to be changed as well... see what I mean? It is not a huge deal... we have the same issue with excel files that are sent with caster to FTP. We always want the name of the file to be something like myfile_20090312.xls. We have a script that runs at night to update bottask with the current date.

This is a frequent issue on these boards. IBI should really add that as an option in report caster. "append YYYYMMDD date to file name" or something along those lines.

susannah: I see what you mean. I have not tried that. In any case the current method I am using works well...

Weren't you guys surprised to learn that
ON GRAPH SET VAXIS 640
ON GRAPH SET HAXIS 1040

has no effect on report caster gifs unless you issue HOLD and then send the file, like I am doing..?

Thanks!

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yeah!

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