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dreddy_23
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Hi,

I am trying to find if theree is a way that I can set up the report caster to send the report to a printer as well as e-mail the same report in single run?

Thanks,
DR.


Prod: WebFOCUS 8.1.05 on Win 10
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Prarie
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Unless someone has a good trick...that cannot be done.


In Focus since 1993. WebFOCUS 7.7.03 Win 2003
 
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Darin Lee
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That is correct. The RC tool can only have a single output type and a single distribution method. You could, however, FTP the output to a location and then use a post-execution procedure which would either execute system commands or execute a batch file which would print and email the file from the system level. Lots of intricacies to that one, I suppose, the least of which would be what type of output format would you use that would satisfy both methods? HTML can email(attachments), not print. PDF can email(attachment), not print - at least not without an Adobe reader. PS can print, but requires a PS reader if sent as an attachment - not very good for email.
Your best bet is to run two separate jobs with the same parameters.


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
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dreddy_23
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Thanks for the reply Prarie and Darin.

DR.


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Jeff Winters
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As was said, your best choice is probably two separate runs. And if you do that, one idea, especially if the processing is lengthy, is to produce a hold file from the first run. You can create a report and a hold file with one run:

APP HOLD TEST
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COUNTRY CAR MODEL
END
HOLD FORMAT FOCUS AS TEMP1

Then the second RC job would just do a simple report with formatting from the TEMP1 file. This also assures that both reports have the exact same data.
 
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