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info4pal
Guru
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Hi,

Iam using the below piece of code for the text format :
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT *
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT DFIX DELIMITER | HEADER YES
END
-EXIT

Upon running the report,I will get the output alert box with an option as shown below :
Name : WFServlet.ibfs
Type : Unknown File Type

Iam getting the correct output but I need to change the format of the output along with its extension from WFServlet.ibfs to anyname.txt

Is there any workaround to do the same.Please let me know.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Regards!

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Webfocus 8105 Developer studio,Windows 7,HTML,Excel,PDF,Text,Infoassist,Graph,AHTML
 
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rogerwilkouk
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We do this quite a bit, however rather than just having it create the file using PCHOLD we save the file to an APPS folder.

At the beginning of the fex, we set the File name and extension and FILEDEF our output
-SET &FILE1= 'anyname' | '.txt';
FILEDEF ANYNAME DISK C:\IBI\APPS\OUTPUT-FILES\&FILE1

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT *
ON TABLE SAVE AS 'ANYNAME' FORMAT DFIX DELIMITER | HEADER YES
END
-EXIT

This will then Save your output as a file in the Apps Folder with the name you specified.


WF 81.5, Windows7
AS/400 Database.
All Outputs

 
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info4pal
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Hi Rogerwilkouk,

Thanks a lot for the quick response and for the solution.
But is there any way we could do it in PCHOLD?

Please let me know.

Thanks a lot in advance!


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Rifaz
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To display it in the browser, have this at the end of rogerwilkouk code

EX EDAGET TXT,OUTPUT-FILES/&FILE1,B
-RUN


-Rifaz

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SSander
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Answer lies somewhere in "Redirection settings" of client (Admin console "Configuration). We had excel with similar issue with excel files and redirect settings fixed it.


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info4pal
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Hi,

Thnaks a lot everyone.

Regards!


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Doug
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But is there any way we could do it in PCHOLD?




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J.Hines
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info4pal, can you post on what you did that finally worked? I am getting my file saved to the location, but then EDAGET says it can't find it.


Prod: 8.2.0.4 OS:Windows 10 Output:AHTML, Excel 2007+

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