I am testing a POC. I am writing a fex that produces a PDF (ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF).

I want save the pdf produced in a specific file on my hard drive (ie. C:\temp\car.pdf). I want to then be able to open the file up with ADOBE and see the pdf that was created.

Could someone offer assistance with this.

Thanks.

first Filedef the output where you want it to go.

FILEDEF VPDOC DISK \\velo\iscsc$\reports\vpdoc.pdf

Then Hold your ouput of the report

ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT PDF AS VPDOC

quote:

FILEDEF VPDOC DISK \\velo\iscsc$\reports\vpdoc.pdf

Hi Prarie.

I've tried both on table "save" and "pchold" and when I look at temp1 the TLBPOC01.pdf file is not there.
-* File timpoc.fex
-*FILEDEF TLBPOC DISK C:\TEMP1\TLBPOCTEST
FILEDEF TLBPOC1 DISK \\TEMP1\TLBPOC01.PDF

TABLE FILE BE_MERCHANT
PRINT
BANK_NUMBER
MERCHANT
MERCHANT_NAM
PHONE_NUM
MERCHANT_LEGAL_NAM
HEADING
"This is a test report "
WHERE BANK_NUMBER EQ '1922';
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 10
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE SAVE FORMAT PDF
-*ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
GRID=OFF,
FONT='TIMES NEW ROMAN',
SIZE=10,
COLOR='BLACK',
BACKCOLOR='NONE',
STYLE=NORMAL,
$
ENDSTYLE
END

ON the Hold you have to tell it the name.

FORMAT PDF AS TLBPOC1

this is my latest...still no file on my hard drive

FILEDEF TLBPOC1 DISK \\TEMP1\tlbpoc01.pdf

TABLE FILE BE_MERCHANT
PRINT
BANK_NUMBER
MERCHANT
MERCHANT_NAM
PHONE_NUM
MERCHANT_LEGAL_NAM
HEADING
"This is a test report "
WHERE BANK_NUMBER EQ '1922';
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 10
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT PDF AS TLBPOC1
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
GRID=OFF,
FONT='TIMES NEW ROMAN',
SIZE=10,
COLOR='BLACK',
BACKCOLOR='NONE',
STYLE=NORMAL,
$
ENDSTYLE
END

try putting a -RUN after the filedef. On a related note, why not just let WF perform the default functionality (ON TABLE SET ONLINE_FMT PDF) . It opens in the Acrobat viewer so you can see it. You can save it from there to wherever you want so you can play with it further.

Hi Darin,

I included the -RUN still no file on my hard drive. The POC is to see if I can hold a Webfocus created PDF to a file and another user (who does not have WF) can open that file and fiew the PDF. This is why I'm not holding as pdf. I'm using my box to test this concept.

Please also remember that the PDF file is created on the machine where the WebFOCUS Server is installed. It will not be able to put the file onto a directory that is on your desktop computer.

For your FILEDEF to work, the machine on which the WebFOCUS server is installed must be able to recognize the directory. Is the WebFOCUS server machine able to access the \\TEMP1 directory?

You can also so as Darin stated:

Use the ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF statement. This tells WebFOCUS to send the PDF document to your browser. your browser will then recignize the .PDF extension and start the Adobe Reader for you.

No the WF server cannot see my box. Is their no way to create a .pdf file on any file I'm able to write to on the network and someone can just open that file up with adobe?

Guess I was not understanding the question all the way. There isn't a way to "automagically" run and hold the PDF file on an external box. The ON TABLE PCHOLD would send it back to a browser and the user can then save to wherever they want and another user could access it.
That being said, here's a way around that. If the WF server has access to network drives (you may want to have a mapped drive as it may be less confusing) you could create a directory mapping on the WF server (say HOLDPDF that points to network drive N: or \\servername\users\PDFrpts) and add it to the server path. If you then do APP HOLD HOLDPDF and use ON TABLE HOLD AS TLBPOC1 FORMAT PDF in your fex, it should create the file on the network drive that can be accessed by other users.

Thanks Darin, I'll give this suggestion a try. Essentially I will need to do this even if I'm writing to my box... correct?

tlbrydie2,

You need to remember that the PDF document created can only be written to directories which the WebFOCUS server has access to. If you really need it to be written to YOUR machine then you will need to share a directory on your machine with the network and then map a network drive (as Darrin stated) on the WebFOCUS server to point to the shared directory on your machine. You then need to do two things:

1) Add an application directory mapping to the APP PATH for the HOLDPDF. Do this by adding the following statement to your focexec:

APP MAP HOLDPDF mapped_network_drive_name

2) Add the following statement to your focexec:

APP FI TLBPOC1 DISK HOLDPDF/tlbpoc1.pdf

Thanks,

Prarie, Mgrackin, Daren

Good Luck...

Well...I created a new folder and put it in the app path...the .pdf gets created successfully in that file with this code.
APP FI TLBPOC1 DISK POC/tlbpo1.pdf
-*FILEDEF TLBPOC1 DISK \\TEMP1\tlbpoc01.pdf
-RUN
TABLE FILE BE_MERCHANT
PRINT
BANK_NUMBER
MERCHANT
MERCHANT_NAM
PHONE_NUM
MERCHANT_LEGAL_NAM
HEADING
"This is a test report "
WHERE BANK_NUMBER EQ '1922';
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 10
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE SAVE FORMAT PDF AS TLBPOC1
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
GRID=OFF,
FONT='TIMES NEW ROMAN',
SIZE=10,
COLOR='BLACK',
BACKCOLOR='NONE',
STYLE=NORMAL,
$
ENDSTYLE
END

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Please disregard previous post. File was created correctly. I needed to ftp the file as binary