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Frans
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Hi All,

I would like to make a procedure which generate's a task for reportcaster depending on the paraemters I have in the procedure.

Does anybody have an example how this can be done?

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Test: WF 8.2
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dhagen
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Example.

You could use the DSTRUN options, but I've always found them a little confusing and their functionality is slowly being phased out (I think). I say that because a lot of people seem to be having problems with them in newer releases of WF. Most of my clients are removing any DSTRUN options and replacing them with JSP calls or JAVA programs that use the API.


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Brian Suter
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DSTRUN is particular about it;s parameters. The errors returned have been improved lately. Though DSTRUN is for running a defined schedule, you look like you want to create the schedule ... you want to do that with the API (or webservices calls to caster).


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jgelona
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It took us a while to get DSTRUN to work, but now it works great. I use it in several reports. The only problem I have had is that it does not support Dynamic Distribution but I was able to get around that by dynamically updating a fixed distribution file.


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slim007
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Could you tell me how you used the fixed distribution file? I would like to be able to do something similar. I want to save an email address and burst values so that I can pass those values to a fex to be distributed through ReportCaster. Any help would be great.

Thanks!


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Frans
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Hi Brian, scheduling is not a requirement, The API calls would be nice to use in the future. For now the DSTRUN functionality will do fine I guess. Tomorrow I will spend my day on getting DSTRUN to work, getting the parameter right will be the hardest job.


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Darin Lee
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Slim,

You may get a couple of ideas from a tip I gave at Summit last year regarding manipulating distribution lists. You can find the technique described here


Regards,

Darin


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Efrem
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Here's another methodology which involves the licensing of WebFOCUS Web Services and the Web Services adapter. I have used the below methodology quite successfully in the past.
It is documented in the below WebFOCUS Newsletter.

http://www.informationbuilders.com/new/newsletter/8-4/08_litwin.html
 
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Alan
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Frans,
Did you ever get this to work for you? I have a working example if you're still interested...

Alan


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Frans
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Hi Alan,

Yes I managed to get this working on a dev environment. But due to many security restrictions on prod, it was not possible to implement and I've managed to solve it with deferred reports.


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