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Chesser
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I have a webfocus report that generates a 20 to 100 page pdf being run from a jsp. I need to find a way of compressing or zipping the file. I understand that report caster allows zipping the file but i don't want the report scheduled. Can anyone give me some options to help solve my problem?
 
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Hi Chesser,

What platform are you on? If it is windows you can use dos commands in webfocus procedures. In Dos you can write the commands to zip the file with PKZIP or Winzip32 .
I already used dos commands in a focus procedure but I never tried to zip a file with dos commands. This link will show you how to do this in DOS.

But before you can use the DOS commands you need to tell Webfocus that the next set off commands are Dos commands.

So type:
-DOS followed by your dos-commands

Now I think you need to do it in 2 steps.
Step1: create your pdf and save it somewhere(filedef)
Step2: issue the Dos command for zipping the file like this
-DOS Pkzip –a c:\temp\PDFREPORT.zip “C:\My Documents\Report.pdf”

or
-DOS winzip32 -a "c:\My Documents\Report.pdf" c:\temp\PDFREPORT.zip

Let me know if this works for you? Wink

Dirk JJI
 
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Chesser,

Think about where you hold the report before it is picked-up by the DOS command(s).
- Output to 'Hold' goes into the iWay/EDA agent's temporary workspace whose location is found by use of the TEMPPATH(,) function.
- Output to a 'FILEDEF' goes to the specified static location.

If there is any chance that the fex will be executed simultaneously by more than one RCaster schedule or Adhoc/MRE user, you don't want to involve a static location as they may overwrite each other. It's always best to output to the session's temp space, then use D/M to construct the fully qualified name of DOS's fromfile using TEMPPATH in a concatenation syntax.

I can post examples if you need them.

Chris Burtt


WIN/2K running WF 7.6.4
Development via DevStudio 7.6.4, MRE, TextEditor.
Data is Oracle, MS-SQL.
 
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