Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Reporting:
Report Builder Deployment

Running multiple reports in a batch

You can run all the reports in the rbsample.prl report library as a batch job with the same set of parameters using rbbatch.p.

To run the rbbatch.p procedure with the rbsample.prl report library, execute the following command:

RUN rbbatch.p ("c:\dlc\src\aderb\rbsample.prl")

Here is the rbbatch.p procedure:

rbbatch.p

/* 1 */ DEF VAR RB-REPORT-NAME AS CHARACTER INITIAL "". DEF VAR RB-DB-CONNECTION AS CHARACTER INITIAL "". DEF VAR RB-INCLUDE-RECORDS AS CHARACTER INITIAL "". DEF VAR RB-FILTER AS CHARACTER INITIAL "". DEF VAR RB-MEMO-FILE AS CHARACTER INITIAL "". DEF VAR RB-PRINT-DESTINATION AS CHARACTER INITIAL "". DEF VAR RB-PRINTER-NAME AS CHARACTER INITIAL "". DEF VAR RB-PRINTER-PORT AS CHARACTER INITIAL "". DEF VAR RB-OUTPUT-FILE AS CHARACTER INITIAL "". DEF VAR RB-NUMBER-COPIES AS INTEGER INITIAL 1. DEF VAR RB-BEGIN-PAGE AS INTEGER INITIAL 0. DEF VAR RB-END-PAGE AS INTEGER INITIAL 0. DEF VAR RB-TEST-PATTERN AS LOGICAL INITIAL no. DEF VAR RB-WINDOW-TITLE AS CHARACTER INITIAL "". DEF VAR RB-DISPLAY-ERRORS AS LOGICAL INITIAL yes. DEF VAR RB-DISPLAY-STATUS AS LOGICAL INITIAL yes. DEF VAR RB-NO-WAIT AS LOGICAL INITIAL no. DEF VAR RB-OTHER-PARAMETERS AS CHARACTER INITIAL "". /* 2 */ DEF VAR report-list AS CHARACTER. DEF VAR report-count AS INTEGER. DEF VAR report-number AS INTEGER. /* 3 */ DEF INPUT PARAMETER report-library AS CHARACTER. /* 4 */ RUN aderb/_getname.p (report-library, OUTPUT report-list, OUTPUT report-count).

/* 5 */ DO report-number = 1 to report-count: RB-REPORT-NAME = entry (report-number, report-list). RUN aderb/_printrb (report-library, RB-REPORT-NAME, RB-DB-CONNECTION, RB-INCLUDE-RECORDS, RB-FILTER, RB-MEMO-FILE, RB-PRINT-DESTINATION, RB-PRINTER-NAME, RB-PRINTER-PORT, RB-OUTPUT-FILE, RB-NUMBER-COPIES, RB-BEGIN-PAGE, RB-END-PAGE, RB-TEST-PATTERN, RB-WINDOW-TITLE, RB-DISPLAY-ERRORS, RB-DISPLAY-STATUS, RB-NO-WAIT, RB-OTHER-PARAMETERS). END.

The commented numbers correspond to the following step-by-step descriptions:

Define variables for the report parameters. Note that you must specify each parameter for each report that you run, but that you can assign each parameter a default value for this procedure.
Define report-list and report-count for the _getname.p output, and report-number to keep track of the reports.
Define input parameter for the library name.
Run _getname.p to access all the reports in the rbsample.prl library.
Print all the reports in the library.
Note: If you are using the PRNTRB2 interface you must modify the procedure to run aderb\_prntrb2 and include the RB-STATUS-FILE parameter.