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DaveZ
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I have created a excel workbook and have schedule in report caster and want to distribute it with today's date and time as part of it name. Is this possible?
Thansk

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WebFOCUS 7.7.1
Windows 2000
Output: Excel and PDF
 
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Tony A
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Not directly within catser. However, you could write the output to a network file named as you require, and then use something like CDONTS to distribute it for you.

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If the job is run on a standard schedule where you know what the next run date is just update the BOTTASK table

it can be added as a post-processing procedure

MODIFY FILE BOTTASK
FREEFORM TASKID PACKETID ASVALUE
MATCH TASKID PACKETID
ON MATCH UPDATE ASVALUE
ON NOMATCH REJECT
DATA
'taskid','paketid','fred&YYMD.EVAL.XLS',$
END
-RUN
 
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does the paketid change? if i run this daily what prevents me from updating all prior versions with today's date


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j.gross
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No, it's part of the primary key.


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DaveZ
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Thanks for the help, I'm close but I get a nomatch here is the message, the code I'm using and a sql statement that finds it

(FOC415)TRANS 1 REJECTED NOMATCH SEG01
'T14e3fieq801','P14e3fs6ec02','ssbo_toc_line_data_09082009XLS',$
0 TRANSACTIONS: TOTAL = 1 ACCEPTED= 0 REJECTED= 1
SEGMENTS: INPUT = 0 UPDATED = 0 DELETED = 0


MODIFY FILE BOTTASK
FREEFORM TASKID PACKETID ASVALUE
MATCH TASKID PACKETID
ON MATCH UPDATE ASVALUE
ON NOMATCH REJECT
DATA
'T14e3fieq801','P14e3fs6ec02','ssbo_toc_line_data_&MDYY.XLS',$
END
-RUN



I can find it by using the following sql statement:
select t.*, t.rowid from bottask t where taskid = 'T14e3fieq801' and packetid = 'P14e3fs6ec02'


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j.gross
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This doesn't address your current problem, but the one in the wings:

What you have echoes as

...
DATA
'T14e3fieq801','P14e3fs6ec02','ssbo_toc_line_data_09082009XLS',$
END

(The . after &MDYY is taken as a delimiter, if what follows is not an attribute keywork such as LENGTH or EXISTS.)
To make ".XLS" part of the resolved value, add a vertical (or another period) before ".XLS".


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DaveZ
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Thanks so much..I got it to work


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