I have about 50+ Reports to be published. Most of them have multiple destinations where they need to be published. For example, one single report needs to be send as an e-mail to one user and the same report has to be placed on a network drive. Have been using Infoburst from Infosol to do this for B.O 6.5 production environment. Now have to implement the same in XIR2 SP2. I guess most of the users must have faced the same issue and expect a responce to this. As u can see from the number of posts of mine . Preety new to this.
Thankx for your responce Anand. But could you please Elaborate a bit more on what you really mean by that. I could not really figure it out as to where you were pointing me.
XIR2 SP2 doesn’t support scheduling a document once and having it write to multiple locations. When you schedule a document to run repeatedly (e.g. monthly, weekly, etc.), a recurring instance is created. The relationship between recurring instances and destinations is 1:1. If you want document X to go to a user’s inbox and to an external location, you would need to schedule the document twice thereby creating 2 recurring instances. The alternative is to use a 3rd party solution or roll your own solution with the SDK.
Just to summarize the above discussion: I started the topic asking weather it was possible to Schedule a single report to multiple destinations. What i meant by this is that i would like to schedule a single report to publish an instance of it to email and the same instance to share drive at the same time as is done in Info burst. The resultant solution that i was suggested is that this could not be achieved. I am not convinced by this idea at all. No offense to whats been told, but its just that i am not convinced. So, if their is someone who can suggest a solution to my problem, that would be really appreciated. I am facing this issue right now and have to start implementing this. .
You may not agree, but that’s the way it is. You can only schedule to 1 destination. However, no matter what the destination is, the same format is also available as the latest instance in InfoView.
InfoBurst is a 3rd party product that adds functionality to the standard product. I believe this is one of the features.
It is possible that the functionality you are looking for will be available in R3 which should be out any day now.
If this is what Scheduler can do then my manager will have hard time digesting it. . Will update on this if SP3 can implement it, would expect others to do it as well. Thanks all for your time and advice. That was a nice experience.
You must not be a long time user of BzO software. Sometimes I’m happy I can just log in
In all seriousness, you are far from the first person to have this feature on their wish list and I really really hope it is included in the 3.0 release.
As a long time Business Objects customer, we were VERY annoyed to find out that a feature we had for the last 6 years was no longer in the product.
It’s one of the many that were lacking when the product became BO embedded inside the Crystal architecture. The weird part is that many Crystal customers have also complained that things are missing from the product.
That’s a great question. If you own Infoburst for 6.5, it can’t be very expensive (if any cost) to upgrade to InfoBurst for XI. You’re probably been paying maintenance on it anyway.
[jwx67,
Thanks for the smart post. I appreciate you not taking advantage of the fact that you work for the vendor of InfoBurst.]
Coming back to the fact that Schedular cannot schedule reports to more than one destination. Totally agree to it. What would be the role of “Publication”. Gone through the documentation and find that if a Profile is created based on the report that needs to be Published and the users who would use the report, scheduling to Multiple destinations is infact possible in XIR2 Sp2. Do update your thoughts on it. If the answer is “YES” do not mind in letting me the steps and factors that needs to be considered to do it.
As I said a while ago, if you already use our InfoBurst product to burst BO 6.x reports you can continue to do so with XIR2 at no extra cost. If you are on current maintenance you are entitled to the latest version should you need it.
We have lots of people using InfoBurst to report burst all types of BI reports from BO 5.x right through to XIR2 DeskI, WebI and Crystal.
All of the things you have mentioned that you wish to do (multiple destinations etc) are all easily doable with the InfoBurst product you already have.
If there is some compelling reason why you do not want to continue with InfoBurst then I would like to know what it is and maybe help you out. I suggest that you contact the support staff at InfoSol if you have any specific questions or concerns about InfoBurst with XIR2.
I am preety convinced for the fact that Infosol would be lot more compelling than Business Objects XIR2. But, i dont work with this product. Their are work arounds for all that i am supposed to do and the management is fine with it. Was able to even split the report based on report tab name which was one of the most trickiest things to handle using Schedular, which can be done preety easily using Info burst.
The management does not want to invest even on the maintenance cost of Info burst. They just want Business Objects to do everything for them. You can just imagine how serious they are about cost.
Could you please tell us how could you burst a single document by report tab name. We are trying to burst a single document with multiple tabs that are bursted by the country filed. We would like to send the bursted report in pdf format as an email attachment with the name of the file as:
[DOCNAME]-[TABNAME]-[Country filed]
For example: We have a report called Sales, that has six tables as: Tab1; Tab2…so on. The report is being bursted using Country filed. So we want the user to see the attachment name in pdf format as: Sales-Tab1-Canada…so on. So in essence if there are 3 countries and 6 tabs, we should be seeing 18 copies of the same report. Is this possible? Please let me know.
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