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Moogle
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Hi Team,

In Report Caster, when you schedule a job, it asks the format and file name of the distributed report. I want to include the date in the name, and the usual suspects don't seem to work (IE. &YYMD).

Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Joey


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Posts: 318 | Location: Los Angeles, CA | Registered: November 15, 2005Report This Post
<Patch4Ever>
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Has anyone come up with a solution to this? I am using ReportCaster 713 and would also like to implement the yymmdd in the naming convention.
 
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jodye
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As far as I know it is impossible, despite being an obvious feature.

We accomplish this by having a script run every night that changes the value of DISTLIST in the BOTSCHED table in the Caster Repository.

Jodye


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FrankDutch
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P and J
It depends if you use the burst function in RC.

If not, then I have worked out a solution to implement this, by using the burst value.

You ad a dummy first by field (not needed to print) in your report.

DEFINE FILE CAR
DUMMYBY/YYMD=&YYMD;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
BY DUMMYBY NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY
END


Now you have to create a dynamic mail list with the same burst value.

SET ASNAMES = ON
DEFINE FILE CAR
BURST_VALUE WITH COUNTRY=&YYMD;
EMAIL_ADDRESS WITH COUNTRY='myadress@company.com';
END
TABLE FILE filename
PRINT BURST_VALUE   AS 'VALUE'
      EMAIL_ADDRESS AS 'DEST'
WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'ITALY';
ON TABLE PCHOLD
END


Or use an other source where you have your email addresses.

Now every time you run this from report caster, the burst value will be part of the attachment.

If you already used the burstvalue this might be possiple to, but you need to combine the variable date with the already used by field and that makes it a bit more complex.

I hope this will be helpful.




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
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ira
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Moogle, Patch4:

If as part of the name to ftp - then see:

http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/sps/10962092.html

if as subject line - see:http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/sps/93411036.html

hope this helps.
Ira wf 5.37


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FrankDutch
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Ira

Did you read and try my solution?




Frank
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SWES
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Please note that you will need to use a alpha field as for example A8YYMD. This in order for Reportcaster to handle it into the file name, as '/' character is not accepted in a file name. Otherwise, Reportcaster will generate an error.


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