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ColdWhiteMilk
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I am trying to add a task to a report caster schedule. The task is an EXL2K output with three worksheets. The query works in MRE.

When I try to add the task to report to a report caster task, I get the error message:

"Error occured when processing the Managed Reporting procedure information. Possible cause of this error is an ureadable character withing the procedure."

Has anyone come across this before, and do you know what would identify an unreadable character or how to correct this error message?

Thank you.


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RSquared
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ColdWhiteMilk,

2 things, first try runnig your report in MRE but stop it before the print step. I am fairly sure thta you will see the error, but MRE allows the report to print even with the erro. Second, the actual error may be in a .mas file, do take a look in your .mas files for bad character.


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ColdWhiteMilk
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thank you for the reply.

I put an -EXIT before the first print, and all I get are the number of records in each hold file step.

What kind of bad character should I be looking for in the mas? How will I know when I see it?

(by the way, the WebFOCUS error message has a typo in it...)


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j.gross
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To display the code without executing it,
add
-SET &ECHO=ON;
-SET &STACK=OFF;
(and remove that -EXIT), then run again in RC.

From the text of the error message, it rather sounds like it was issued by MR as it read the fex ("procedure"), not by the reporting server. But how much can one infer from a misspelled message?
 
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ColdWhiteMilk
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j.gross -

I've added the recommended code to the top of my query.

The problem is that report caster will not let me add this standard report as a task within the report caster schedule item.


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RSquared
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Did you put in "-SET &ECHO=ALL;" in your fex? You can also use HTML as your output and then view the source. This has to be run in MRE.


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ColdWhiteMilk
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Yes, I put the Set Echo = ALL line in my code.

It runs from MRE with no problem.

When I try to add it to a report caster schedule as a task, that is when I get the error message.


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Rakesh P
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Please check the syntax in your stylesheet if you have used in your report. missing $ or , can cause this probelm. Please verify the syntax.


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Brian Suter
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Check your MRE fex for tab characters. Older servers ignored the tab but now they can error on that. The MRE front end removes tabs when it executed the fex. Caster execution does not (never has). We attempted to remove the "clean tabs from the fex" behavior in the MRE client but it caused a few accounts a lot of headache. (1000s of fexs, tabs everywhere,...) So while I do not like the fact we clean the tabs - we have to live with it...


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