Anyone know if the ability to schedule multiple .fex 's exis...

[Barbara Trowbridge]

Anyone know if the ability to schedule multiple .fex 's exists We would like to combine 5 schedules into 1 and send all 5 files to the same place.

[john cullen]

one schedule can have 5 tasks (different report), sent to the same distribution. Is that what you mean

[David Beagan]

A ReportCaster schedule can have multiple tasks, each task can run a fex. Is that what you are looking for

[Barbara Trowbridge]

Yes- I would like to have 1 ReportCaster schedule deliver the output from 5 different .fexs to an SFTP site. When I tried to schedule 2 tasks in one schedule to deliver via SFTP- I got a notice that said only 1 task allowed for FTP schedule. We are on 8207 in the cloud. Thank you for your help!

[Dirk Kuerbig]

Hello Barbara,

WebFOCUS 8.2.07 (later releases, I dont know when exactly) introduced the concept of not only scheduling reports and files, but also to be a master wrapper to schedule other schedules. So if you cant in a single schedule send 5 SFTP schedules, an alternative is to create 5 schedule definitions, and create this master ReportCaster schedules to sequentially trigger the execution and send the results to wherever you need them to go.

Here are some screenshots, in my example

1 procedure (parameterized) of course it could come from 5 totally different procedures.

5 schedules (schedule 1-5, sending individual parameters to the procedure)

1 master schedule that controls the execution of the 5 schedules

Hope this helps

Dirk

 

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[Debra Waybright]

I missed that! Thanks for sharing, this will be really helpful once we migrate to 8207!

[Barbara Trowbridge]

Thank you, Dirk- this would be very helpful! We have quite a number of schedules that we could combine- since they are delivered to the same site; and this would make the maintenance of these schedules a bit more manageable for us.

Kind regards,

Barb

[Barbara Trowbridge]

Hi Debra- I think Dirk said he wasnt sure what version it will be offered in. But are you attending the Tibco WebFOCUS Better Together session today They are presenting Version 9 and Im hoping they have a Q&A where we can ask about ReportCaster.

[Debra Waybright]

Im attending next week. But feel free to post what you find out!