In the online help for Report Caster, WebFOCUS Online Help > Creating and Maintaining a Schedule > Specifying Distribution Options > Distributing Scheduled Output Using FTP, under number 7, Index File for Report there is a reference to a Domain Prepared Reports folder. What is the Prepared Reports folder? Is this indicating that report caster can burst report output via FTP to a "Prepared Reports Folder" that all people with access to that Domain can then see the report output through Managed Reporting?

If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd appreciate it.

WebFOCUS 7.1.1
Dev Studio 7.1.4

Hi Bethany.
Prepared reports are standard reports that were submitted and run from ReportCaster. After these reports are run, the output is stored in a folder called Prepared Reports that is generated in the Standard Reports tab.
If the report was scheduled in Standard Reports, ReportCaster creates a folder in Standard Reports within the same Domain. The report output is stored in the Domain /app directory.
If the report was created in My Reports, ReportCaster creates a folder in My Reports within the same Domain. The report output is stored in the user's directory in the Managed Reporting Repository. Since ReportCaster does not distinguish subfolders, it distributes the reports to the highest level folder regardless of the folder hierarchy within Managed Reporting.
Rich

Thanks for the info Rich. I'm just getting back to this problem now. Do you know if there are drawbacks (space probably being a major one) of distributing report output to Managed Reporting whether in Standard Reports or My Reports? My particular situation is that I have a report that I want to burst the output to the Report Library (or potentially Managed Reporting if that is a better option) but I want multiple people (all with access to the domain that the report is scheduled from-about 8-10 people) to have access to ALL of the bursted output not just specific pieces of the output. The burst output is variable and will likely create 200+ files in the library.

Any suggestions, advice?

Thanks,
Bethany

WF 7.1
DevStudio 7.1.4