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Darin Lee
Virtuoso
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Anyone out there been successful in using ReportCaster to distribute to a location passed to it as a parameter. Somewhat like a dynamic list, but even more dynamic than that. What I would like is for a user to be able to specify a printer IP and use the DSTRUN to kick off the job to the printer specified by the user. I know we can pass parms using the DSTRUN, but it seems to only accept those as procedure inputs, not as an RC input.
I would suppose I could use the API to create a whole new job, but having zero experience with JAVA and APIs, I was looking for a baby step.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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ira
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I too am interested in such information. Could you let me know what you find out? Thanks, Ira


aix-533,websphere 5.1.1,apache-2.0,
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Darin Lee
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I have come up with a solution on this one. I will post as soon as I get a minute to put it all together. I have also submitted to "Tips and Techniques" contest so you may see it at Summit! Not to get injured patting myself on the back, Wink but I am always pleased when I come up with a way to make WebFOCUS do something that it was not intended to do. I'm sure others feel the same.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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mgutai
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Hello Darin,
I looked for your solution in a later post but did not find it. Can you post? I'm in need of sending Webfocus report output via Reportcaster API to dynamic location/persion.
Thanks,
Mark

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Originally posted by Darin Lee:
I have come up with a solution on this one. I will post as soon as I get a minute to put it all together. I have also submitted to "Tips and Techniques" contest so you may see it at Summit! Not to get injured patting myself on the back, Wink but I am always pleased when I come up with a way to make WebFOCUS do something that it was not intended to do. I'm sure others feel the same.
 
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Prarie
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I think this is what your are looking for.
http://www.informationbuilders.com/support/developers/triggering_webfocus.html


In Focus since 1993. WebFOCUS 7.7.03 Win 2003
 
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Darin Lee
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My solution was presented at Tech Summit along with many others and they were all posted to the Development Center>>Tips and techniques. Here is the URL for my solution: http://www.informationbuilders.com/support/developers/triggering_webfocus.html


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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