[rm-users] Re: Working With PDF Output and Portal

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 09:42:57AM -0500, amy.brink@tricon-yum.com wrote:
>      We are using BRIO.Portal v6.0 and BRIO.Report Writer 5.1 [SQR]. Most 
>      of our reports do not use fixed-distance fonts. The user's are very 
>      satisfied with the report output, but would like Portal to open the 
>      nicely-formatted PDF output by default instead of the poorly-formatted 
>      HTML output.
>      
>      Any ideas on how to do this?

If you are running your reports in batch mode and then loading the
resulting output files, the easy way to do this is to use the
-printer:pd option on SQR and then load only the PDF file into the
Repository.  Since you aren't loading HTML or SPF files, you'll never
get anything but PDF.

If you are running these reports as dynamic reports within Portal, I'm
less sure of the answer because I haven't faced this problem in v6 yet.
Hopefuly there is an easier way, but the "sledgehammer" approach would
be to define a non-SQR job that was actually a shell script which
invoked your SQR program with the -printer:pd option.  Since this "job"
would not produce an SPF or HTML files, they wouldn't be there to
confuse your users.  However, this approach is a lot more work
than just loading the SQR as its own job....

(It won't be for a few days, but next time I have access to a Portal
installation I'll see if I find anything more helpful.)

							Nathan

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