How to set Parameters in Command Line?

Hi and thank you for reading,

I am trying to run a report from the command line with genReport.bat using parameters. My report is running and producing html or pdf just fine, but I would like to specify the parameters in the command line. I tried the following command:

genReport.bat -f PDF cities.pdf -p "City=NYC" -F orders.rptdesign

I get Orders.pdf as output, but the parameter hasn't changed and is still set to the default one. It is also not giving me the requested cities.pdf (I also tried a -o before the cities.pdf but this resulted in an exception).

I am not getting the syntax of these commands. Can someone please give me an example of how include multiple parameters into the command land statement and how to specify the output file.

Thanks a lot in advace

Evgeny

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evgeny

ok, I figured out how to do it . 
 
Here is the solution: 
genReport.bat -f PDF -o outp3.pdf -p "City=NYC" -p "OrderDate=01/05/2009" D:softwarebirtbirt-runtime-2_5_0ReportEngineorders.rptdesign 
 
 
(with the help of: <a class='bbc_url' href='http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/09/birt-passing-parameters-from-command.html'>The Digital Voice: BIRT: Passing Parameters from the Command Line for Scheduled Tasks</a>) 
 
Though I still don't really understand the syntax of the command line statements. 
 
 
 
Evgeny