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Jbucks007
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Does anyone know of a way to get Webfocus to distribute a CSV or COMMA formated file with headers?

Thanks,
jason

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Francis Mariani
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Format COMT will do the trick.


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When I tried to put the PCHOLD format as COMT, I didn't get any column headers. I'm trying to distribute via email using ReportCaster in case that makes a difference.


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Francis Mariani
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ReportCaster shouldn't be an issue. We don't have RC here, so I can't test it.


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Jbucks007
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I'm still not able to get it to work and have tried multiple things such as:

ON TABLE SET QUALTITLES ON
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT COMT
ON TABLE SET form.control.COLUMN.HEADERS 1
ON TABLE SET STYLE *

I'm entered in a service ticket to see if it is data related or something else.


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susannah
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j...
try ON TABLE HOLD AS
rather than PCHOLD
i just did it in v5, and it worked fine.
i filedeffed it and ran it and looked at the resultant file, nice header row.
Then i tried it with ON TABLE PCHOLD and all &*$%+# broke lose.



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Francis Mariani
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Susannah, me too! The $&*#^@* really flew!

But the one difference between HOLD and PCHOLD would be that HOLD will save the file on the server, therefore the FILEDEF would have to point to a file on the server. For PCHOLD the file would be downloaded to the local PC.

PCHOLD using the usual formats - PDF, EXL2K, HTML and HTMTABLE work fine - when I try COMT, Widnows opens a security warning and the file name and type isn't at all what is coded in the program.

This may have something to do with Internet Explorer Security settings.


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JBucks,

The output format from a Caster job isn't really controlled from within the fex, rather from the Caster Task settings themselves.

Go to "Edit Task" and choose the "Report Format" of "TABT - Tab Delimited Text File with Fieldnames (*.txt)". You can open a tabbed output file within Excel etc. to obtain the columnar data sheet that you are after.

I think that this is as close to what you want as you can get, without resorting to pre-"filedef"ing a file, adding your heading requirements. Re-"filedef" your file in append mode as save your output to it.

T


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Francis Mariani
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Tony, couldn't you create a file in any format with HOLD and then create a dummy report that controlled by the ReportCaster settings - just to satisfy Report Caster?


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Francis,

I believe so, as it is the final output that is sent by RC in the format determined by the task settings.

It's been a while since I really got stuck into RC and "leveraged" some output other than "here's a procedure, send it out" scenario.

T


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susannah
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ah. i forgot the caster bit
2 ideas
i did this , klugy, but worked:
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT * 
ON TABLE  HOLD FORMAT COMT
END
FILEDEF VARREC DISK HOLD.CSV
TABLE FILE VARREC
PRINT *
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT ALPHA
END

and then in caster specified output format alpha
and sent as an attachment; it worked
i have a master called varrec just setup to read
a single field record, (i use it to read mfds, for example)
if i just tried to caster it with filetype comma, it auto opens in excel. yuck.
but you might try the second way
getting caster to distribute A FILE (from the task pane, select FILE from the drop down list where you usually pick Standard Report..etc.
I've NOT done this, but it should work; you ujust have to have already made the file and parked it somewhere in order to get caster to point to it, i'm guessing.



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nsk110483
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Hello All,

my requirement is to use TABT format.

How can I display headers and subfoot/subtotals on my report

Thanks,


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Posts: 79 | Location: New York | Registered: February 04, 2010Report This Post
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quote:
headers

That is what TABT does

quote:
subfoot/subtotals

You cannot in a single HOLD/PCHOLD operation,
SUBFOOT/SUBTOTALS are not created in data format outputs,
they are only created in document format outputs.

Your option is to generate the TABT, FILEDEF it using the (APPEND option
then add your SUBFOOT/SUBTOTALS using a subsequent request.

By the way it's not good practice to add to a 4 year old thread.

Open a new one and refer to old threads if needed.
 
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