Hi Gizmo

This is something we were told would be added as a new feature request along time (years) ago. It would be super useful.

Prarie when you defer a report and then look at the list of deferred reports, they will all have exactly the same description. Which is the name of the report. But that is not very useful. If I run a deferred report 5 times, each time with different parameters, then I have no way of knowing later on which report is which. Unless you note the time that the report was deferred. It would be super helpful to have a field somewhere that stores a runtime user provided descriptive value. Gizmo please post a solution here if you get one.

Thx

Jodye

You can do this, but it will take a bit of work ... I say that only because it's been a couple of years since I've done this and my memory isn't the greatest. To do what you are looking for, you can:

- Create a "My Report" for the user with a call to the actual report to execute, that has a descriptive name.
- Submit the "My Report" in a deferred mode.
- Delete the "My Report"

It turns out the creating a my report is really just a function of the WFServlet with the appropriate arguments. The trick here lies in what arguments do you pass WFServlet to make this happen. If you are interested in trying this, let me know and I will go through my old notes. Worst case is you can trace the servlet and see what it kicks out. It is a way to backwards engineer the process.

I did this for an application I wrote.

It dosn't use the standard deferred output sreeen, but a custom one that I set up.

What I did was:

• Submit the report with a parameter that contains the title you want.
  
• Call the deferred list request and return an XML message.
  
• Process the returned list, extract the title and show a screen of deferred tickets.
  

Relatively simple, but requires parameters to be prompted for and you can't use the standard deferred list URL.

I am now running into the same issue, and wondered if Waz or dhagen could provde code for what they have done in these cases???

Why is this thread marked 'solved by ib' when there does not seem to be an official solution posted?

For the submission side of the customisation, check out this post here

It does rely on Prompt for parameters, from memory.

I have a good handle on how to customize the form that comes back.. What I need is the ability to allow the user to give a name for the report to show up as on the deferred status page. For instance you may run report1, but the user wants this run of it listed as Feb2009Report or something. I want what the user inputs to be shown as the Description field, instead of the base report name.

Hi,

Has there been a solution to this issue or a workaround it where users can customize the Description field on the deferred reports. I'm having the same problem where I have a list of reports with the same name.

Thanks.

Best Regards,

Jimmy Pang

Me too! Me too! I'm also looking for a solution, hopefully "SOLVED BY IB".

The latest news is

quote:

This is a feature request currently under divisional review. It is targeted for a future 8.x release but no exact ETA or release has been assigned at this time.

Very sad.

Anyone have an update on this? Any ETA?

I am using version 8.08...has there been something added to solve this issue?

Ha! Fooled again by the tag "[SOLVED BY IB]".