Report Scheduler...

rbuser

Microsoft SQL server report services has an interesting feature that I was
wondering if Digital metaphors or perhaps a 3rd party would consider
developing or it is developed already.

In the report services you are able to schedule a report for execution and
delivery. So you can say for instance execute this report on Monday nights
and deliver it via email to this group of people.

Any thoughts on the future direction of digital methaphors regarding this
topic?

As an existing and very happy report builder customer, I would like to have
this feature for an application but don't want to re-invent the wheel.

Thanks,

Isi Robayna

rbuser

Isi R wrote:


Well as far as I know there're some products enabling RB to produce PDF
- depending on your development tool there should be some other third
party components for sending mail?

Why not take windows planned tasks to run your app using a command line
that makes it create a pdf, send it and terminate? Thats not
re-inventing the whell but customizing it a bit.

Kind regards,

Mark

rbuser

I have made just that for a customer. Reports are
created by a com+ object and this com+ object
is started by a windows ntservice at a specific time.
There a dayreports, weekreports, monthreports and yearreports
all created at specific intervals, as the name already suggested!
After the com+ object has created the reports they
are send by mail (in pdf format, mostly)to certain people.
The settings for all this are stored in a database and
can be easily adjusted.

greetings,

Rob Segerink

rbuser

"Mark Meyer" wrote in message news:400e9bf1




I've done exactly this, and it works very well. RB to create reports.
Pragnaan to render as PDF. Indy (in the Delphi box) to send email. Windows
Scheduler (etc.) to run it at an appointed time.

There isn't really anything reporting-specific about a scheduling tool, so
I'd say that the tools you are asking for already exists. There are plenty
of scheduling mechanisms around, including several build in to Windows.

That said, some people like all-in-one-box solutions, it would be valuable
to some RB users to have the RB report server include a schedulable report
feature.

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rbuser

Absolutely,

As a matter of fact, I would be willing to pay for such a tool (depending on
a "reasonable" price)

Regards,

Isi R.

rbuser

try visualchron at efg pages.
it suits my needs for years.
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