Hi,
We are running BO 4.2 SP2. This may be a very basic question, and this may not be the correct forum for it, but here goes.
I have done some basic report scheduling, but only for things like scheduling a report once a month. A recent project requires running a WebI report approximately 250 times on the first of the month. It needs to produce Excel reports for approximately 250 customers, based on a list of account numbers that could change monthly. The plan is to FTP these Excel files to a third party, who will handle the security and distribution to our customers.
This seems pretty straight forward to me, but I’ve done a lot of research over the past several weeks, and I can’t find a good solution to batch schedule one report based on a list of account numbers. I’m really hoping to avoid having to create 250 individually scheduled reports!
I realize SAP provides a SDK that could provide a means of doing this, but we are trying to avoid a custom solution. At first the SAP Publisher Service seemed promising, but from everything I’ve seen, that is only for Crystal Reports. I’ve also looked at report bursting, but that seems to be designed to distribute a single report to a dynamic list of recipients.
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to schedule a single WebI report, that uses a dynamic list of accounts for input and produces individual reports, without using the SDK or another custom solution?
Thank you very much for your help!
JSW (BOB member since 2013-01-15)
(BOB member since 2003-11-27)
