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scheduling birt reports

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Hi,

Could anyone tell how to schedule reports in BIRT.

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Yaytay

To my knowledge there is no built-in way to schedule reports in the open source BIRT. 
 
However you can still schedule reports using OS-level functionality - make sure you can run your report using using genReport.bat (or genReport.sh on linux) and then schedule it using Windows Task Scheduler or Linux Cron. 
 
Another option is to write a java application that uses the Quartz Scheduler, but unless you've already gone down this route this is much more complex than using genReport. 
 
This blog might help: <a class='bbc_url' href='http://eclipser-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/automatic-generation-of-birt-reports.html'>http://eclipser-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/automatic-generation-of-birt-reports.html</a>

MALPI

Hi,

in our Project we have written a "stand-alone"-runner for Birt Runtime 3.7.

Out of our main Web-App we have used the Quartz Scheduler to schedule the Engine with different Parameters.

Regards,

MALPI

Yaytay

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'MALPI'" data-cid="98082" data-time="1332326071" data-date="21 March 2012 - 03:34 AM">
in our Project we have written a "stand-alone"-runner for Birt Runtime 3.7. </blockquote>
Out of interest, what does your stand-alone runner do that genReport doesn't?

MALPI

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'Yaytay'" data-cid="98083" data-time="1332328140" data-date="21 March 2012 - 04:09 AM">
Out of interest, what does your stand-alone runner do that genReport doesn't? </blockquote>
 
In fact the problem was the Excel Export. I have generated my reports and after that, i imported them with HSSF-API to formate them. 
 
Actually the benefit of my runner is that i can handle different types of reports with different parameters I give to it. Maybe it is now possible with genReport, because I we use another Emitter for Excel Export. 
 
Greetings, 
 
MALPI

Yaytay

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'MALPI'" data-cid="98084" data-time="1332329651" data-date="21 March 2012 - 04:34 AM">
we use another Emitter for Excel Export. </blockquote>
 
Oh now you do have my interest, which one did you choose and why? 
 
Of course, you should feel free to ignore me if I'm being too nosey.

MALPI

No Problem.

We already talked about it in following Topic:

http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/index.php/topic/24133-birt-excel-export/page__p__86024__fromsearch__1&#entry86024

The problem with spudsoft Emitter was, that it wasn't really well formatted and it can't produce images as Output.

I worked a long time with importing the Excel-Output with HSSF-API and genereted new Excel-Files which meet my expectation.
But in the past there were a lot of Bugs and fixes I had to do.

So we tried the Arctorus Emitter the last days. And it is doing what we want to.

Greets,

MALPI

Yaytay

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'MALPI'" data-cid="98086" data-time="1332330934" data-date="21 March 2012 - 04:55 AM">
We already talked about it in following Topic: 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/index.php/topic/24133-birt-excel-export/page__p__86024__fromsearch__1&#entry86024'>http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/index.php/topic/24133-birt-excel-export/page__p__86024__fromsearch__1&#entry86024</a> 
 
The problem with spudsoft Emitter was, that it wasn't really well formatted and it can't produce images as Output. </blockquote>
 
Ah yes, but we never got to the bottom of why your images/charts weren't appearing, because the SpudSoft emitter has supported them from the start (except in headers/footers, which I only recently added support for). 
 
No worries, I'm glad you're happy with the Arctorus emitter, it does sound like their latest version is the best general purpose Excel emitter (if you don't mind the cost). 
 
Jim