Document ID:        35360.1
Creator:            LANDERSO
Subject:            Running Reports from the server
Modified:           31 May 96 11:35:54


Question
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Can you run a report on a server from the client?

Answer
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The ability to run a report on the server directly in reports is coming in
Reports 3.0 (Dev2K 2.0).

At present there are three main ways of achieving this:

1) Client tool puts a 'request record' in a temporary table which is polled
periodically by some job on the server (probably a cron job under UNIX) which
fires the report on the server.

2) Client tool passes a message down a database pipe, which again is polled by
a job on the server which kicks off the the report.

3) Client tool uses some kind of remote shell utility to log on to the server
and run the report.

Note that in all these cases you will need to have the server version of
reports installed, and you will need to copy the .rdf file from the client to
the server and generate there before any calls to run that report are made.