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Leanne Wood
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We have just upgraded to WF 8104.

Can someone help me with the coding for sending report output to a folder on my C: drive?

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Waz
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Hi Leanne,

Can you clarify where the report will be run and where the report is to be hold ?

i.e.
Run on remote server held on local c drive (This probably will be impossible)


Waz...

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WFDevConsultant
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There are 2 ways you can do this.

1) Using FILEDEF
2) APP HOLD

We burst lot of excel reports through this way.


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Leanne Wood
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Thank you both for your response. Here is a little more info:

We have a vendor that needs us to send a file to them daily. Simple, right? Use report caster run the report and sftp the file to their server. Unfortunately, they don't allow sftp, they are requiring us to use Amazon S3. The way S3 works, is it sweeps ALL files in a folder to the destination (the vendor). Okay, so if we can have report caster run the fex, and write the file to a non-used Webfocus folder, perhaps an empty folder on the WF server's desktop named "S3". Then we would install the S3 client and the single file in the S3 folder would be swept and moved to the vendors S3 site.

Simple question, can report caster run a fex and have the output stored in a folder we created "S3" on the WebFocus servers desktop? If so, how???


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Yes, the reportcaster can run a fex and have the output stored in a folder.

Example - This is just an idea.

APP MAP TEST YOURFOLDER
FILEDEF YOURFOLDER DISK FILENAME

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
DCOST
RCOST
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE HOLD AS FILENAME FORMAT EXL2K
END


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Waz
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Just a minor change to WFDevConsultant's code.

APP MAP S3 "PathToYourFolder"
APP HOLD S3

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
DCOST
RCOST
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE HOLD AS FILENAME FORMAT EXL2K
END


Check out the APP MAP and APP HOLD commands in the documentaiton.


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