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EWoerle
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I am trying to burst and email a compound excel report using report caster but my output comes through blank. according to this documentation

http://techsupport.information...om/sps/30542542.html

I should be able to get it to at least work with html and pdf, but I am having problems with that as well. Has anyone gotten around this? here is a sample car fex that I've been using to trouble shoot.

 -*SET COMPOUND = OPEN
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
     'CAR.SPECS.MPG'
BY 'CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY'
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K OPEN
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     UNITS=IN,
     SQUEEZE=ON,
     ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
     FONT='ARIAL',
     SIZE=9,
$
TYPE=TITLE,
     STYLE=BOLD,
$
ENDSTYLE
END		
-*SET COMPOUND = CLOSE		   
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
     'CAR.BODY.RETAIL_COST'
BY 'CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY'
HEADING
""
FOOTING
""
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K CLOSE
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     UNITS=IN,
     SQUEEZE=ON,
     ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
     FONT='ARIAL',
     SIZE=9,
$
TYPE=TITLE,
     STYLE=BOLD,
$
ENDSTYLE
END

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Eric Woerle
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Francis Mariani
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I don't have access to ReportCaster at the moment, but wouldn't you need ON column-name PAGE-BREAK to identify the column you want to burst on?


Francis


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EWoerle
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no page breaking doesn't help any. I've never actually bursted a report using ON column-name PAGE-BREAK. From how I understood that bursting works is that it bursts off whatever your first by field is


Eric Woerle
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Darin Lee
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My understanding is that you need to use the current syntax for creating the compound report in order to get bursting to work properly. Bursting a compound report was not available in previous (pre-7.6.x) versions, so it's somewhat understandable that the "old" syntax would not work for this feature.

Try creating this with the newer compound layout tool and see if it will burst properly.


Regards,

Darin


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EWoerle
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Darin,

I was able to get it to work in the newer compound layout tool in pdf (didn't try it in html). But I could not get it to reportcast it in excel. has anyone acheived that before? or am I pretty much out of luck if I want to do it using Excel?


Eric Woerle
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Gerry
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Bursting of COORDINATED compound reports is supported with PDF, PPT and DHTML. Bursting using EXL2K is not supported.


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EWoerle
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Thanks everyone. I will relay this information to the business user and have them change their program.


Eric Woerle
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Joey Sandoval
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Can you burst a coordinated compound excel report in 7.7.03?



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