I am trying to create a hold file and report from a single table request. This can be useful for creating and accessing an archive of all reports that have been run for a certain application, as well as for debugging fexes that have errors or need enhancements.

http://www.informationbuilders.com/support/developers/PoorManRptLib.html

Perhaps I have placed my directory in the incorrect directory. When I run the
test.fex below I cannot find the file in TFARCHIV.

APP MAP TFARCHIV P:\WebFOCUS71\basedir\wofitzv1\app\TFARCHIV

APP HOLD TFARCHIV

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR MODEL SEATS
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT HTML
END
ON TABLE HOLD AS HCAR FORMAT PDF
-RUN
-EXIT
-*
? HOLD HCAR
-RUN

Any ideas?

Tom,

Does your server have access to the P: disk?

Do you have permissions to write to that particular directory? \WebFOCUSnn\basedir is the MRE application directory, belongs to the WF client not the reporting server, and is not written to by users per se but by the WF servlet under the auspices of the user. The other reason you don't want to put it there is that you would have migration issues when you upgraded.

Try doing some thing like:

APP MAP TFARCHIV P:\WebFOCUS71\ibi\apps\baseapp\wofitzv1\app\TFARCHIV

See if that works better for you. You can also point to a completely different directory as long as it is not in the 'IBI' software directories.

quote:

APP MAP TFARCHIV P:\WebFOCUS71\basedir\wofitzv1\app\TFARCHIV

Thanks I will try that.

quote:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR MODEL SEATS
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT HTML
END <---
ON TABLE HOLD AS HCAR FORMAT PDF <---
-RUN
-EXIT

Once execution encounters END, TABLE is gone ... so the "ON TABLE" following END will get a "command not recognized" error message.

In order to create two reports, you either need to make two passes through your data source -- or one pass with HOLD, and then two passes on the HOLD file. You can combine two passes against a single source (*) with

TABLE FILE xxx
PRINT ... ... ...
RUN <--- note: no hyphen [it's a FOCUS TABLE keyword, not a Dialog Manager directive.
PRINT ... ... ...
END

(*) I vaguely recall there was a new feature announced to allow creation of multiple outputs in a single pass. Anyone who knows more about that please chime in.)

j.g.,

This is old functionality that was a bonus so we didn't have to go at the data source 2X.

The syntax above is incorrect, S/B:

 
APP HOLD FOLDERNAME
-RUN 
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR MODEL SEATS
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT HTML
END

HOLD AS HCAR FORMAT PDF

-RUN
-EXIT

Now, you open Adobe, then migrate to DRIVE://ibi/apps/baseapp/hcar.pdf
Works fine for me on 7.6.5, HOLDing in BASEAPP...

Tom

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