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Adrian Wong
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Hi,
We want to let the user input their criteria and then have the report run in non-peak hours e.g. after 6 PM on that day they submitted the report.
Reason is the report will retrieve a huge amount of data and we don't want the report to run right away since it will tie up the user's PC. We would like the report to be emailed to the user automatically.
What is the best way to do this?
Thanks in advance.

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ABT
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Run Deferred. It will not tie up the user's PC and it will allow them to click a button to load the output on demand (multiple times, if needed).

Or ReportCaster to schedule and email to user. This would not be interactive, though.

- ABT


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FYI

Run Deferred runs as soon as a deferred agent is available.


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ABT
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Waz, thanks for the clarification.

I suggested that because the concern was not for tying the server up, but tying up the end user's PC.


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Server/Client, ReportCaster, Dev Studio: 7.6.11
Resource Analyzer, Resource Governor, Library, Maintain, InfoAssist
OS: Windows Server 2003
Application/Web Server: Tomcat 5.5.25
Java: JDK 1.6.0_03
Authentication: LDAP, MRREALM Driver
Output: PDF, EXL2K, HTM

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Oracle 10g
DB2 (AS/400)
MSSQL Server 2005
Access/FoxPro
 
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Adrian Wong
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Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I think we will have to develop this as a deferred report. The thing is we want to let the users input their own parameters and then let it run overnight since it might take a long time to run. I have played around with RC and I can login as a User and schedule my own reports but I don't see anywhere in RC where it lets users input the actual input criteria for a report like the data range and other parameters. hence, we will try it as a deferred report. Thanks all.


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User Submitted Report to Run Overnight and Send to User via Email [SOLVED]

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