Impromptu Report Path

[cogjai]

Hi all,
We are developing impromptu reports for a client. The client wants to develop and send it to them across. The hotfiles and picklist files were in our local path and we are referring to them. When it goes to production at client place, they should be mapped to clients path which is different from the path we are using. Can we store the path in a global variable, or in some .ini file, so that that value can be changed at client environment.

thanks in advance.

 

[DrSimon]

I don't think it's possible to do what you want - I'd love to be proved wrong, because I would like to do that too. I believe that the addresses are effectively 'hard coded' into the report - anyone know different?

 

[GilMerc]

Hi Cogjai,

Effectively, it's impossible to have a referece path for the hotfile (I don't find it too). I solve this problem when I fix a path of hotfile to «c:\temp». I sure this path exist for all users.

Gilles.

 

[griffindm]

I'm a little pressed for time, or I'd check this out myself. I remember that in version 6 on, they changed the location logic in Impromptu to look for needed objects (catalogs, logos, hotfiles, picklist reports, etc) in the same directory as the report that was opened, then in the default locations in impromptu.ini, then the locations set in the report. This was to enable the ability to package report sets for publishing to IWR, but should control logic in client use as well. If you need this, try it and let us know if it works.

Dave Griffin


The Decision Support Group
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[GJParker]

location of hotfiles are controlled by the catalog.

Open up the catalog then open up Tables from the catalog menu, on the Edit tab highlight the hotfile location in the catalog tables window, click on rename then use the browse button to find the path to the new location.

HTH

Gary Parker
Systems Support Analyst
Manchester, England

 

[GilMerc]

Gary,

I know this precision but most of all end user has client version and can't modify catalog and if I was admistrator I'm sure I don't want to change this definition each time I install a new computer.

For this raison, I choose to fix, as you said in catalog, the hotfile location in a path where I know it's always exist. Except if the installation is always in the same folder, it's possible to choose a folder in cognos or in other place but we don't have a garantie of this.

Gilles.