E-mail the Reports

If you can set up a schedule of specific times to run the report..ReportCaster is the way to go.

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BlueZone

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Navaneeth :
Does "Automatically" refer to a specific Time/Day (ex: 8:00AM every Monday) or does it refer to a specific condition that can occur at any point of time ?

For the former example, you just set up a straight forward schedule in Caster for the desired frequency and delivery options.

For the latter, you have to use what is called the "Pre-Processing Procedures" on the 'Advanced Options' pop-up window on the Task setup screen. You will need to have a condition-check fex that is first executed, and if it comes back with the desired results, the actual report is run and emailed to the target. Else, the actual report fex is not run.
You do this by using the reserved "&KILL_RPC" variable. You can find more info about this in the caster documentation library.

Hope that helps.
Sandeep M.

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BlueZone

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And regarding the other Q you had about Drill-downs, I do not think that it is possible (atleast in our 5.x).
Reports run from the MRE are still associated with the reporting server thru authentication protocols and can re-connect with the server to execute the new report. But reports opened from an email are no longer associated with the reporting server. So they cannot re-authenticate with the reporting server to execute the drill-down fex.

I am not sure if any of that changed in your 7.x release.

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Anatess

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There is a new feature called Active Reports that is an off-line full-service report (contains sort options, filters, etc.). It's a matter of checking a box on the Report options but, it is a separate license and doesn't come standard. At least not in the 7.1.3 release that we use. So, you can send the report via email and it retains all the active report functionality without needing to be connected to the server.

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susannah

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navaneeth and Bluezone
Drilldowns in emails are definitely possible.
not only possible, very cool.
You just have to remember that Outlook is not a browser, so it doesn't know what a drilldown is unless you've specified the FULL path to the webfocus engine.
so, either in the fex or as a reportcaster pre-processing condition, you specify the path for your focus engine
SET FOCEXURL = HTTP://servername/ibi_apps/WFServlet
and now your ordinary drilldown links will work from outlook. Multidrills wont, anything javascript-based wont, remember...Outlook is Not a browser.
Now having said that, a work around is to send your email as an attachment...that way, outlook never handles the report, and the attachment presents as an html page; In my shop, attachments are not acceptable, so i have a link that says 'click here to get all the bells and whistles', and the resulting non-outlook, full html page, is no different from a selfserve site and you have all your multidrills, all your javascript .

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thank you guys for your reply.

now i will start working on it

Regards

Navaneeth

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Hi ,

Do you guys have any documentation, or can u provide me any link with regards
to this.

I am new to report caster and e-mailing of Dynamic reports

Regards
Navaneeth

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Hi Navaneeth,

You can find out how to schedule each of the types of reports in the ReportCaster Development and Administration Guide 7.1.

The following recommendation is an overview of ReportCaster that you may find helpful:
Best Practices: Considerations When Using ReportCaster 7.1. This document also describes how to schedule a report with links or drill down options.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jennifer

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quote:
ReportCaster Development and Administration Guide 7.1.

Thanks

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Hi,

I am New to Web Focus Report Caster,

I tried e-mailing a .FEX file / Report, I get the desired result, and i.e. the report was mailed to the desired user.

But, how do we try to schedule an .HTM report?

Regards

Navaneeth

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Francis Mariani

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Have you read the manual? The Report Caster schedule can distribute a report in different formats.

Francis

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Hi Francis,

I am unable to access Report Caster Development and Administration Guide 7.1..

I think it might be due to some access issue here or I don’t have the sufficient privileges.

Can you provide me some other solution or a way out?

Regards
Navaneeth

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