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Par2: ReportWriter and SQL 2004-09-23 -- Vince Crosby I've asked this question and gotten some answers but never understood the
content of those answers. Sometimes, I think that programmers/developers
make explanations much more difficult than they have to be.
Well, I read (there's really nothing out there on the subject, compiled the
answers that I received, experimented over and over again (with no success)
and then I looked at what ReportWriter was asking me for.
Let me explain it as simply as possible:
My dictionary had 4 MySQL tables that the ReportWriter was using (this was a
conversion from a TPS file system where the table and field names were the
same; only the driver had changed).
ReportWriter always asked me to enter the PASSWORD everytime I tried to run
one of the reports in the TXR. The prompt box always had the word
GLO:CONNSTRING in its title line. I entered the data connect name followed
by a comma followed by the user name followed by a comma followed by the
password. It worked and the report began to print. But I couldn't figure how
to get ReportWriter to recognize this value.After about 100 attempts on the
command line, I finally decided to try passing the information to
ReportWriter as part of the /Value parameter. Yes, a string:
C60PRNTX.exe CAREPS.TXR /VGLO:ConnString="datainfo,root,judybabe"
ReportWriter started to run and printed any report, without prompting me for
any more information. It worked!!!! So if it worked here, why not in my
application. Let's see:
RUN('C60PRNTX.exe CAREPS.TXR /VGLO:ConnString="datainfo,root,judybabe"',1)
It's working. Wow!!! When some of you told me to place the value in the
dictionary, I didn't understand what that meant. But, passing the value as
part of the command line is what works.
Thanks for pushing me in the right direction.
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