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Hi Team - New year greetings to all

I was checking on empty report and with SET EMPTYREPORT = ON i am not receiving blank report for report format COMT, where as it is working for EXL2K

EMPTYREPORT = ON doesn't work for COMT ?

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All Formats : Excel,PDF,HTML,Dlimiter,.txt
 
Posts: 9 | Registered: May 30, 2017Report This Post
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Basically, COMT is not a "report" but a data file output format. So, no it's not working as you thing it will.

Regarding Excel output format, as per : Controlling Output When a TABLE Request Retrieves Zero Records you have an empty Excel file because EMPTYREPORT is not supported for this action

But using the below, I do have an empty (0 bytes) csv file generated
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT SEATS
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'CANADA';
ON TABLE HOLD AS baseapp/TEST FORMAT COMT
END
-RUN


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Use a pre-process to check to see if you have data that will/will not be held as COMT and branch accordingly.
-SET &ECHO = ALL ;
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT SEATS
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1;
-*WHERE COUNTRY NE COUNTRY ;
ON TABLE HOLD 
END
-RUN
-IF &RECORDS EQ 0 THEN GOTO :NoDataToHold ELSE GOTO :HoldThis ;
-:HoldThis
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT SEATS
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
ON TABLE PCHOLD AS baseapp/TEST FORMAT COMT
END
-RUN
-GOTO :TheEnd

-:NoDataToHold
SET EMPTYREPORT = ON
SET PAGE = NOPAGE
TABLE FILE CAR
HEADING
"NO DATA FOR THIS REPORT"
PRINT SEATS NOPRINT
WHERE COUNTRY NE COUNTRY ;
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END
-RUN
-GOTO :TheEnd

-:TheEnd
-SET &ECHO = OFF ;
-TYPE *** The End ***
-EXIT




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Thank you Martin and Doug for the reply!

I tried both the way and i don't see empty report getting generated.

In schedule if i select EXL2k as report format and run i receive empty report but when i select COMT and run the schedule,log is showing "no report to distribute"


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As I stated, COMT is NOT a report format, it's a file format and RC expect to produce a report, not a file. Its name tell it "REPORT Caster".
We can generate file with RC but at the end, if you are not "giving" him a report it will send you that warning.
Try the following code and setting

1- Create a fex with the below and add it in a schedule
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT SEATS
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'CANADA';
ON TABLE HOLD AS baseapp/TEST FORMAT COMT
END
-RUN

-* --------------------------------------------------
-* THIS STEP IS ONLY TO AVOID THE RC WARNING FROM NO REPORT TO DISTRIBUTE
-* --------------------------------------------------
TABLE FILE CAR
BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
HEADING
" END OF : GENERATES COMT TEST FILE"
WHERE READLIMIT   EQ 1;
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
END
-RUN

2- In your schedule in the Distributions tab add a "Report Library" as the distribution method
3- Run the schedule

It will result in TEST.csv empty file generated under baseapp and you RC log file will not have the "No report to distribute"


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