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Jasen
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I am using a portal page to run 7 reports to a panel each having their own tab. The user wants the ability to export to PDF for printing or Excel to view. Everything works fine the first time I run the reports. The second time everything works fine but the PDF export. It displays the old data. The data is coming from foccache so I know that the data has changed. Plus my other reports run correctly.

I have tried adding a time stamp and a random number to get the PDF to pull the proper report.

I can see that it is pulling the wrong PDF in the web address.

has32:9080/ibi_apps/WFServlet?PG_REQTYPE=REDIRECT&PG_MRsaved=false &PG_Func=GETBINARY&PG_File=iwxdtkmp.pdf


Here is my code for the drilldown

TYPE=TABHEADING,
LINE=2,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
FONT='ARIAL',
SIZE=10,
STYLE=NORMAL,
TARGET='_blank',
FOCEXEC=/WFC/Repository/Loram/Machine_Stats/ContractServices/field_stat_customer/mkt_prod_stat_mach.fex( \
WFFMT='PDF' \
),

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have tried with IE and FireFox with same result.

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WebFocus 8.002
PMF 8.2.3
Windows, all output
 
Posts: 76 | Location: Minnesota | Registered: December 28, 2012Report This Post
MattC
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Go into Admin Console > General and looks for EXPIRE_REPORTS. Change that to 1. I think the default is set for 300.


WebFOCUS 8.1.05
 
Posts: 496 | Registered: January 04, 2008Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Also, to make the drill-down URL unique, the random number or time stamp should be in the drill-down code, something like this:

...
-SET &RNDM = EDIT(HHMMSS('A8'),'99$99$99');
FOCEXEC=/WFC/Repository/Loram/Machine_Stats/ContractServices/field_stat_customer/mkt_prod_stat_mach.fex( \
WFFMT='PDF' \
RNDM='&RNDM' \
...


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

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Jasen
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I guess the second try with a random number is the charm.


WebFocus 8.002
PMF 8.2.3
Windows, all output
 
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