To run and dispatch a report from the Reports Builder user interface:
In the Object Navigator, click the report name, or choose FileOpen
to open it.
If you are not already connected, connect to a database.
Click
in the toolbar.
If the Runtime Parameter Form
displays, specify settings for the desired output: Tip:
When you create the report, you must use the Parameter Form Builder
(choose ToolsParameter
Form Builder) to select the system parameters you want to appear
in the Runtime Parameter Form.
To preview output in the Paper Design view using screen fonts: set Destination Type to Screen.
To preview output in the Paper Design view using screen fonts and size the fonts using the printer font metrics: set Destination Type to Preview.
To send output to a file, set Destination Type to
File, Destination Name to the path
and filename, Destination Format to the output format
for the report (for example, PDF, HTML, HTMLCSS, RTF, XML, or DELIMITED
for bitmapped reports, or the character-mode printer definition file
(.prt
file) for character-mode reports).
Note: It is not possible to generate spreadsheet
output directly from Reports Builder. Instead, on the command
line, you can run the report using rwrun
and Reports
Server clients (rwcgi
, rwclient
,
rwservlet
), with DESFORMAT
=SPREADSHEET
.
To send output to a printer: set Destination Type to Printer, Destination Name to the printer driver name.
To send output through e-mail using your Internet standard protocol SMTP
e-mail application: set Destination Type to
Mail, and leave Destination Name blank. In the
Mail dialog box, specify the recipients and subject line for your e-mail
report.
Note: The configuration file rwbuilder.conf
must
include the pluginParam mailServer
with the outgoing mail
server name. This applies in both the Windows and Solaris environments.
In the Runtime Parameter Form, click
in the toolbar.
If a dialog box appears, enter required information.
If you want the orientation of the report to be landscape, you must change the orientation for the report. However, if your printer does not support the specified page size, you may get truncated results. To enable character-mode printers to support landscape (or other page sizes), you can set printer escape sequences in the printer definition files. Refer to your printer documentation for the escape sequences to use.
When you view the report output in Microsoft Word, you must choose ViewPage
Layout to see all the graphics and objects in your report.
Selecting parameters to include in the Runtime Parameter Form
Running a report from the command line
Running a report using a command file
Running a report to a remote Reports Server
Generating HTML or HTMLCSS output
Distributing a report to multiple destinations
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