Scheduling a ReportCaster Job With a WebFOCUS Report
By Efrem Litwin

In the Autumn 2007 WebFOCUS Newsletter, I wrote an article on how to use a WebFOCUS report to schedule a ReportCaster job making use of ReportCaster Web Services and the Web Services Adapter. ReportCaster Web Services was created to allow the integration of custom-built applications developed in environments such as Microsoft .NET and Java with ReportCaster functionality.

The Web Services Adapter lets WebFOCUS integrate with applications that are Web services-enabled through the use of a WebFOCUS report. If your company has licensed ReportCaster Web Services and the Web Services Adapter, then a WebFOCUS report can be written to integrate with ReportCaster functionality. In the majority of cases, the ReportCaster Web Services function addSchedule, which schedules a ReportCaster Job, would be used.

The common question I receive is that once there is a Master File created, as per my Autumn 2007 article, how does one know which fields in the Master File to use to schedule a particular ReportCaster Job, and what should be the values passed to the ReportCaster Web Services function? The first thing to remember is that values are passed to the input of a Web Service in the form of a WHERE/IF clause (e.g., WHERE fieldname EQ ‘value’). The meaning of each of the fieldnames and the valid values to be passed are all documented in the ReportCaster Web Services manual.

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