Has anyone in the group written their own custom interface with Rpeort Caster 5.3+? We want to add a scheduling option to all of our reports using a opo-up window that would be a tailored front end for the use to Report Caster.

Just curious if anyone has tackled this before? and what they learned.. and what tools and environment they built their UI in?

Rich

I have had the opportunity to do this at a previous employer and we used Cold Fusion which is of course outdated now (insert duck and run icon).

We passed variables to the scheduler and it was pretty slick!

FOr both 5.2 and 5.3 we used the supplied JSP sample files and they worked really well. Actualy, I think the JSP sample files we used were from WF 5.2 as they were not supplied with 5.3.

Try the samples at http://localhost/rcaster/samples/rbalogon.htm

Francis... that is exactly what I was looking for. Are the sample files you mentioned 'supposed' to be installed locally with the other Desktop tools? Or did you have to request a special install of R/C as a local server on your machine?

Thanks
Rich

The JSP files will be in the ReportCaster Webapp folder on the server:

C:\ibi\WebFOCUS53\webapps\rcaster53\jsp

Unfortunately, at the moment, I have a new installation of WebFOCUS 5.3.2 and do not have the files I used for scheduling reports. I will restore them from a backup tonight and give you some more information tomorrow.

Meanwhile, if you want to go the JSP route, these two files are needed from the 5.2 samples directory: rcaster_menuinit.jsp and rcaster_create.jsp (in 5.3, I think they're replaced by java servlets).

Cheers.

Hi Rich

Like the other posters, we also acoomplish this. all of our reports are accessed in a custom portal written in asp. Users always have three choices Run, Defer, Schedule. The schedule button takes them to a new screen where they fill out all of the schedule info and how to handle rolling dates. Then we call the jsp servlets. Works perfectly.