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Saravanan J
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Hi,

I want to generate a Flex PDF report for around 5000 users. I have the user id's in a table. Is it possible to schedule the report in Report Caster and pass the parameter to the report from a table column? Since my report is complex Flex pdf, i was not able to use Report Bursting. Is there any way to make the dynamically pass the parameter to a schedule from a table column?

Thanks in advance!!

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Ramkumar - Webfous
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Hi Saravanan,

Where or to be precise which is invoking or staring you schedule?

Here are the details, how to specify parameters to the schedules, while creating...

http://65.216.39.79/ibi_html/j...m#d04_rcadmin1378768


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Ramkumar.
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Saravanan J
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Thanks for the link Ram

My requirement is to Run a Procedure multiple time for each person id (which can be got from a oracle table). Its much similar to Bursting, but since my report calls a mxml file to create flex charts, i was not able to define the BY field needed for Busrting.

One way i can get this done is by creatig hold file for person table and running a loop inside my Fex Procedure to run the reoprt for each person. Before going on to this approach, i want to know if this is something possible using Report Caster.

Say, if my Person table contains 5000 id's. I want to generate 5000 reports (one for each person).


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Ramkumar - Webfous
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Hi Saravanan,

Inside Report Caster It is not possible to access a DB table, get Data and pass on as a paramter to a Schedule, I guess.

Even In case If your ETL or something else is invoking the schedule, the schedule even has to be invoked and ran 5K + times. That is not opt.

But a 5000+ Iterations is defenitely expensive as such.

You can check for change document or with someone at IB regarding this. Whether they have any new feature for implementing this sort, as part of 7.7.X .

Something might be there. Anyone else, comments please...


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atturhari
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The WF can capture the connecting user. If this connecting user ID is similar to the IDs that exist in Table, then you can have a WHERE cluase to restrict the data to that particular user.

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Ramkumar - Webfous
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Hi Hari,

He is not mentioning about IBIC User...

This is the list of users present in a company who are goin to use the report.


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Saravanan J
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Thanks Ram and Hari,
Here is my approach. If you find a better way of doing this, please update me.

1) Get the list of users from DB to a hold file.
2) Run a loop based on the values from hold file and execute the Fex used to generate the PDF report and save each file in a Hold directory.
3) Once all the files are generated i will FTP the files to a Windows Batch server using a separate job.

Thanks much and looking forward for a better way to do this.


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Doug
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Very interesting. Let us know how it works out for you.
 
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Ramkumar - Webfous
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Saravanan,

Good approach. I think this is someway the opt method... But 5K iterations, and generate PDF.

Hopefully the count doesnt exceed 5k... Smiler


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Ramkumar.
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