Running reports from an icon on the desktop

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There are some "home grown" utilities on the eGroups files that will allow you to do this. Lonnie is still working on one which will allow you to schedule reports or "Run Right Now" any RB report in your arsenal. Another one is designed to allow an input of a date range before running a report (all from an icon outside of RB or Vantage).

Anyone else care to comment?

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics
----- Original Message -----
From: Dunn, Nancy
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 9:02 AM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Running reports from an icon on the desktop


I don't remeber seeing anything on how to run a Report Builder report from
an Icon. How do you do this? I have an RMA report I would like to do.
Nancy Dunn
Winco Ind.

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:19 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Running reports from an icon on the desktop


Are the financial reports written in Epicor's Financial Report Writer, or
are they Progress reports within Vantage, or are they written in Report
Builder?

I believe only Report Builder reports could be run from icons outside of
Vantage.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

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We want our Department Managers to be able to run their budget
reports from an icon on their desktop to keep from giving them access
to all of the financial reports. Our Machining Manager, for example,
has eleven budgets or cost centers to review and budget for. We
would like to have a report icon where he enters the year and
accounting period and the reports sent to his screen where he could
review them and/or print them. We do not want to give everyone
access to all of the financial reports. Has anyone done this or know
how to. I am an accountant and not very proficient in this type of
thing.

We are on version 5.0 patch 329. We just converted from 4.0 and are
considering upgrading to 5.1. Does any one have any experience, good
or bad, with 5.1. We don't want to go there if it has the same
problems as 5.0 did in the beginning.

Thanks for any ideas and information.

Gary Ditto
Westinghouse-EPD
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Are the financial reports written in Epicor's Financial Report Writer, or are they Progress reports within Vantage, or are they written in Report Builder?

I believe only Report Builder reports could be run from icons outside of Vantage.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics
----- Original Message -----
From: dittog@...
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:40 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Running reports from an icon on the desktop


We want our Department Managers to be able to run their budget
reports from an icon on their desktop to keep from giving them access
to all of the financial reports. Our Machining Manager, for example,
has eleven budgets or cost centers to review and budget for. We
would like to have a report icon where he enters the year and
accounting period and the reports sent to his screen where he could
review them and/or print them. We do not want to give everyone
access to all of the financial reports. Has anyone done this or know
how to. I am an accountant and not very proficient in this type of
thing.

We are on version 5.0 patch 329. We just converted from 4.0 and are
considering upgrading to 5.1. Does any one have any experience, good
or bad, with 5.1. We don't want to go there if it has the same
problems as 5.0 did in the beginning.

Thanks for any ideas and information.

Gary Ditto
Westinghouse-EPD


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Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
(2) To search through old msg's goto: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links

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If the reports are written in the progress 4gl, it is theoretically
possible to set up an icon that would run them. You would need to create
a Progress program to call each of the programs in turn, and then by a
process of trial and error work out what environment needs to be created
by your new program so that the reports get all the information that
they need to work. About a year ago someone posted list of some shared
variables that are required, but I can't find it now.

Mot much help I am afraid. But where there is hope there is life.

dittog@... wrote:
>
> We want our Department Managers to be able to run their budget
> reports from an icon on their desktop to keep from giving them access
> to all of the financial reports. Our Machining Manager, for example,
> has eleven budgets or cost centers to review and budget for. We
> would like to have a report icon where he enters the year and
> accounting period and the reports sent to his screen where he could
> review them and/or print them. We do not want to give everyone
> access to all of the financial reports. Has anyone done this or know
> how to. I am an accountant and not very proficient in this type of
> thing.
>
> We are on version 5.0 patch 329. We just converted from 4.0 and are
> considering upgrading to 5.1. Does any one have any experience, good
> or bad, with 5.1. We don't want to go there if it has the same
> problems as 5.0 did in the beginning.
>
> Thanks for any ideas and information.
>
> Gary Ditto
> Westinghouse-EPD
>
>
> Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
> (1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
> (2) To search through old msg's goto: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
> (3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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I don't remeber seeing anything on how to run a Report Builder report from
an Icon. How do you do this? I have an RMA report I would like to do.
Nancy Dunn
Winco Ind.

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:19 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Running reports from an icon on the desktop


Are the financial reports written in Epicor's Financial Report Writer, or
are they Progress reports within Vantage, or are they written in Report
Builder?

I believe only Report Builder reports could be run from icons outside of
Vantage.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics