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Tim J
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1. In a Distribution List in Reportcaster, I know I can assign multiple values to one email, but it will send a separate attachment for each value. Is there a way to group multiple values into ONE attachment?

2. Also, is there a way to use Reportcaster to send a report with a drilldown and its subsequent drilldown report so the user can view the summary data and the detailed data? For example, I would like to send an Excel output file through Reportcaster with a drilldown link that will take you to the detail report when the drilldown link is clicked.
 
Posts: 57 | Registered: February 24, 2004Report This Post
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I'm not sure about question 1. But for question 2 you will need to use the follow set command:
SET FOCEXURL = url

Hope this helps.
 
Posts: 406 | Location: Canada | Registered: May 31, 2004Report This Post
susannah
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if you're using isapi then...
SET FOCEXURL = http://yourservername/cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/webapi.dll
if you're using servlet then...
SET FOCEXURL = http://yourservername/cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/ibiweb.exe

stick this single line into the top your your fexes, or...what i do is have this single line in a fex, and invoke that fex as a pre-processing-procedure in Caster.
This single setting will tell Outlook where to find the complete URL of the webfocus engine .
Then your users can do drilldowns.
Note: multiple choice drilldowns wont work..they're javascript...and Outlook isn't a browser
 
Posts: 3811 | Location: Manhattan | Registered: October 28, 2003Report This Post
Tim J
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CurtisA and Susannah,

A Thank You is long over due here!

Sorry for the late post. This did the trick!

Tim
 
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susannah
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tim, did anyone tell you how to send multiple pages in 1 email, without attachments?
if, say, your fex makes 3 reports, then.
ON TABLE HOLD AS MYTAB1 FORMAT HTMTABLE
and
ON TABLE HOLD AS MYTAB2 ...you get my drift.
then...
at the end of your fex
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
!IBI.FIL.MYTAB1;
!IBI.FIL.MYTAB2;
!IBI.FIL.MYTAB3;
-HTMLFORM END
and it will send all three output reports in a single email, in line, not as 1 with 2 attachments. way cool.
does this help?
 
Posts: 3811 | Location: Manhattan | Registered: October 28, 2003Report This Post
Tim J
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Way cool indeed!

This will help a lot! Executive type users hate extra steps, even if it is only 2 or 3 clicks.

Thanks!
 
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