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Is there a way to print RW reports to PDF without having to open each one in PDF first?

We run groups of reports using Option 3 (Report/Spreadsheet) and when we look in the law/print folder we see only the CSV files. If we have our Print Manager set to default to PDF and open the reports, then it produces the PDF file and saves it there, but not until we open it. I've tried several of the other Options and nothing has generated PDF files yet.

We have PDF selected as the Default Report View.

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robert-canham

Are you looking for this because you have an FTP process that goes to pull the file from that folder regularly? I think the system will only create a pdf on request, so when you have PDF as the default, it just means that you request a PDF when you view it, not when it runs the report.

If you need to convert to PDF without user interaction, you can use the bldxffiles command line tool. The below command should create pdf documents of all report output for a job:

bldxffiles -P UserName JobName JobStep

unknown

We are wanting to archive pdf copies of a large number of financial reports each month and were developing a script to copy the pdf from the print folder to a different location. I'm thinking the script we use to copy could include the command you provided. Does that sound right?

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robert-canham

Yeah, as long as your script can load the environment variables, there should be no problem having it do the command and then copying it off.

unknown

Thank you . . . we'll give that a try. Building in the parameters won't be a problem.

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