Possible?: rpt on server pointed to viewer's data 1

[dmccallum]

Using WCS can I maintain an rpt on my server and allow a client to access the rpt through my web page and have the rpt look at the data on the client's machine?

 

[dcm]

dmccallum: Only way I can see to do this is to define the datasource of the report on your server as being that on the client. David C. Monks
david.monks@chase-international.com

http://www.chase-international.com

Accredited Seagate Enterprise Partner

 

[dmccallum]

But in doing that, say in CR I tell the report that the data is located on the client's machine in the directory data, how would I?

If in using my machine I tell CR the data is located at C:\data it knows it's looking at my machine in the root directory for a directory named data.

If the client's data is located at C:\data what would I tell the rpt when I create it? It would not be C:\data because that would be my machine, right?

 

[dcm]

dmccallum: You should use UNC so that the user C:\data becomes \\USERMC\DATA and your C:\Data would be \\MYMC\DATA David C. Monks
david.monks@chase-international.com

http://www.chase-international.com

Accredited Seagate Enterprise Partner

 

[dmccallum]

What is UNC?

 

[dcm]

dmccallum: Letters stand for Unified Naming Convention (I think) and is a method of describing a machine and path which does not rely upon the use of mapped drive letters David C. Monks
david.monks@chase-international.com

http://www.chase-international.com

Accredited Seagate Enterprise Partner