Is there a way to functionally perform on demand paging without the Webviewer? I thought that there was a way to do this before the Webviewer?
My reports are timing out and the viewer does not work well into our system design.

Hi Allen,

Has this issue regarding on demand paging without Webviewer been resolved?

I ran a quick search on Information Builder's online documentations and came across the following topics which may be of interest.

Symptom - ON DEMAND PAGING: 'You are not allowed to access viewer file'
http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/sps/42741099.html

Report in WebViewer shows incorrect page number on 2nd page http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/sps/81621075.html

NETSCAPE: Blank browser page for EXCEL and WEBVIEWER reports http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/sps/60241076.html

You will need to have a userid and password to access these documents.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Kerry

Hi Allen,

Based on what I heard from one of our senior consultants, it would help if you could provide answers to the following questions:

* Are you using CGI or servlet
* Are you getting a CGI timeout or a browser timeout
* Is the browser timeout default still 5 minutes or has it been increased
* Please explain in detail how is the webviewer not working

We could simulate the webviewer by creating multiple reports that goto PDF output. However, it won't be exact. Each report would be small enough not to time out.

This should work but it would be more helpful if we knew what type of data and how many records being reported off of as well as expected in the answer set.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR BY COUNTRY
WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND'
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF OPEN
END
-RUN
SET FOCFIRSTPAGE=&FOCNEXTPAGE
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR BY COUNTRY
WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'FRANCE'
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END
-RUN
SET FOCFIRSTPAGE=&FOCNEXTPAGE
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR BY COUNTRY PAGE-BREAK
WHERE COUNTRY NE 'FRANCE' OR 'ENGLAND'
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF CLOSE
END

The above breaks the report below into 3 separate reports:
SET WEBVIEWER=ON
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR BY COUNTRY PAGE-BREAK
END

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Kerry

Sorry Kerry, but I think you've missed the point. Allen was asking to achieve ODP without the WebViewer.

Thanks Tony,
That is exactly correct. I am trying to functionally do what ODP does, without using ODP. When we insert this command we get the catch all client data transfer error -12, or something like that. I suspect because we are embedding our report into are own HTML, we may be getting this error. We self service application developers are here to stay. Thanks folks.

Allen

Hi Tony,

I double checked with our consultant, and I heard back that the example above did not include ODP. It used PDF.

Cheers,

Kerry

Hi Kerry,

'Tis true that the example shows ODP simulation via PDF but your references to documents in your prior post only mentioned WebViewer.

I really think Allen wants HTML output from the sound of things

Hi
I think this was possible a long long time ago, I just can't remember what I did to accomplish it. I believe it was a combination of setting lines equal to a certain value and some other parameter. It was before the webviewer. It just may not be possible to functionaly do ODP without using the current commands.

Allen