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webFocus_reporter
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Hi,

Reportcaster distributing report at 5:00 O'clock morning and output file is either *.XLS or *.PDF.

Distribution Location is a File Sever (Windows)
My Organization wants me to keep This JOB into a Temporary folder (@ Destination) untill it gets fully loaded with data with *.tmp extension. Once it gets all data they want me to move this file to ready folder(@ Destination) with extension *.XLS or *.PDF.

My questions are

(1) While File being distributed into Location Server - Can we keep File extension as *.tmp (or something else)
(2)Once It gets all data (Fully Loaded) would it possible to change extension to *.XLS or *.PDF
(3)If Above mentioned (1) and (2) is not possible then ,can we move Fully Loaded file from Folder X to Folder Y @ Destination Server

Please guide in this issue

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Posts: 31 | Registered: March 17, 2010Report This Post
Darin Lee
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You can do all of that, but not with ReportCaster functions. I think your only option for something like that would be to create your own script or batch file and execute it as a post-processing procedure. RC only know how to take one output file and put it one place with one name (taking bursting into account.)


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Darin


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Prarie
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I'm not sure if this will help you, but I have a job that runs in reportcaster and creates an excel file then once it is completes I have another that copies the file to a differnt location/with the date and then deletes the old one. This job is run in reportcaster also...

COPY \\CORP\SAHQ_GROUP\TRANS\DEMURRAGE\GRAPHS\DEMGRAPH1.xls \\CORP\SAHQ_GROUP\TRANS\DEMURRAGE\GRAPHS\DEMGRAPHx&MDYY...xls
NT DEL \\CORP\SAHQ_GROUP\TRANS\DEMURRAGE\GRAPHS\DEMGRAPH1.xls
 
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webFocus_reporter
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Prarie:

Are you copying and deleting file at Destination Server - Location.?

Can you please explain me little more how we can do through WebFOCUS?


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Ram Prasad E
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While creating Schedules in Report Caster, make use of Post-processing Procedures option available in Advanced Task Options.

Once main report FEX gets completed, in the Post-processing FEX move the generated report output to different folder.


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I believe I need to create another *.fex file which will copy from floder X to folder Y.

For this I need to write DOS command in my *.fex. (above mentioned as Prarie's note)

Right?

If so
please guide me , how to write DOS command in *.fex?


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njsden
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It's fairly easy. Just use the -DOS command:

-DOS mycommand


If "mycommand" involves quite a bit of different operations, you can decide to create a batch file with all of the commands inside and pass some parameters to it so it knows what to do:

-DOS C:\MySCripts\MoveFolder.bat Caster_Folder


That assumes that you have a "Caster_Folder" where your reports are being distributed, and that the MoveFolder.bat script "knows" how to move/copy files located in %1 (Caster_Folder in this example) to a different location.


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webFocus_reporter
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Thanks all and specially njsden


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