Scheduling and Distributing Information
WebFOCUS ReportCaster ensures secure, automatic dissemination
of critical information to the right person in the right context.
A cutting-edge report delivery engine and state-of-the-art business
event monitoring provides companies with a single point of control
for real-time alerts, as well as a mechanism for fully automating,
scheduling, storing, and instantly distributing information. For
example, WebFOCUS reports and dashboards or third-party content,
to anyone within or outside the organization.
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Addition to Available Library Distribution Options. As of
ReportCaster Release 8.0 Version 04, you can now select Published
when specifying Library Distribution Options in the ReportCaster
Configuration tool. Library Distribution Options enable you to select
the Library Access options and Email for Library options available
to users in the Basic Scheduling Tool and Advanced Scheduling Tool
when distributing scheduled output to the Report Library.
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Updates to Email and FTP Distribution of HTML Reports. As
of ReportCaster Release 8.0 Version 04, a new setting has been added
to the ReportCaster Configuration tool that enables the use of a
fully qualified FOCEXURL and FOCHTMLURL with Email and FTP distribution.
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Universal Profile Setting. As of ReportCaster Release
8.0 Version 04, you can now specify that certain commands are to
be run prior to the execution of a scheduled job by using the Universal
Profile setting in the WebFOCUS Administration Console.
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Scheduling a Library Report as Published. ReportCaster
has been updated to allow you to schedule a library report as published.
You can also specify Private, Shared, or Shared with.
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Collection of DBMS Statistics. ReportCaster
can collect DBMS statistics from a Reporting Server that is running
Resource Analyzer and display the DBMS information in the schedule
log.
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Integration With WebFOCUS Client Security. ReportCaster
is fully integrated with the WebFOCUS 8 WebFOCUS Client Security
Authorization implementation. Users, Groups, Schedules, Distribution
Lists, Access Lists, and Library Reports are stored in the WebFOCUS
Repository. Administration of group or user authorization to access
ReportCaster tools is controlled by the WebFOCUS Client Security
Authorization.
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Ability to Designate a Group Administrator. A
user can be given the ability to manage the private Schedules, Distribution
Lists, and Access Lists of other users.
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Sharing of Schedules, Distribution Lists, and Access Lists. Users
can share Schedules, Distribution Lists, and Access Lists with other
groups and users they are authorized to share with.
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Access to ReportCaster Items From the Content Tree. ReportCaster items
(Schedules, Distribution Lists, Access Lists, and Library Reports)
and tools are accessible from the Content tree, which provides a
single interface point of access to both Managed Reporting and ReportCaster
content and tools.
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Tools With a Ribbon Look and Feel. The
ReportCaster tools to create Schedules, Distribution Lists, and
Access Lists have been implemented as Rich Internet Applications
with a ribbon interface for ease of use and consistency with the
InfoAssist reporting tool.
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Subfolders in the Report Library. Reports
can be stored in the Report Library in a tree structure that can
be multiple levels deep.
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Burst Support for Excel 2007 and 2010 Workbooks (XLSX). The Burst
Report option is supported for EXL07 - Excel 2007 (*.xlsx) format
and requires a Reporting Server Release 8.0 Version 01 or higher.
The burst feature enables you to instruct the Reporting Server to
create the report in sections so that the sections can be distributed
separately to different recipients or locations.
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Saving a Library Report. You
can save a Library report to your machine using the Save
As context menu option that is available when a Library
report is selected from the Report Library Versions dialog box or
the ReportCaster Explorer tree.