Select Export Type

[Tony3781]

I have an export report that our message board uses for user information. We set it up as an icon so that it can be done automatically by our NT4 task manager. The report is set up to export in colon spartated .txt format. This works well through report writer. But when you run it through the icon it seems to use some form of tab delimiting. Can you specify the export type through the control file of the report? How? Thanks in advance for any help.____Anthony

[kfleming]

To have the export correctly occur at runtime, open the report in the Designer, choose File Export, Text Data file and select the Character Separated Value and enter a colon as the separator character.__Then save the report.__In your runtime control file set:__RI_PRINTER=CSV__RI_OUTFILE=TEST.TXT____when the report is executed, TEST.TXT will be a colon separated file.__The CSV setting in RI_PRINTER will always use whatever Text data export settings are saved in the report. You cannot set these individually from the control file.____The other option is to set RI_PRINTER=? so that the runtime user will get to select Export as the destination and then will be given the same Export menu as available in the Designer.______Kathleen__R&R Support

[Tony3781]

Thanks for your help. :+