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cs_source
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Hi all,

I would like to know the best method on packing 8 different excel reports from webfocus into one excel workbook with 8 different sheets based on the community.

The way i have figured to do this is create a new procedure and create it using the composer (layout) then put each report on the page and schedule that. It seems to work great but i'm not sure if this is the best way to do this?

Thanks,

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Mary Watermann
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cs_source,

Have you looked into the COMPOUND reports method?

All the reports would have:
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K OPEN


then the last report would have the close
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K CLOSE


This will put each report on a different tab in the Excel workbook.

You could then "label" the tabs using
TYPE=REPORT, TITLETEXT='TAB1',$


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Tony A
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It depends upon how "different" the reports are and whether you are scheduling via report caster.

If the reports only differ by community, then I would probably look at using ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K BYTOC.

If they are sufficiently different that you are unable to use BYTOC then I would look at using templates - of which there are many examples in the forum. The one thing to watch out for (if you schedule via report caster) is how you distribute the output of the final template.

T


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