You can access the ReportCaster Development and Administration Interface using any of the following methods:

• From Managed Reporting, click the Clock icon on the toolbar. No ReportCaster log on is necessary since your user ID has already been validated by Managed Reporting security.
• From Developer Studio, click the Clock icon on the toolbar. If you have specified default credentials for your WebFOCUS environment, ReportCaster will use those default credentials for authentication. For more information about configuring your WebFOCUS environment in Developer Studio, see the Developer Studio Application Development Getting Started manual.
• From the stand-alone version of ReportCaster, type the following URL in a Web browser:

  http://hostname:[port]/rc_context_root/main/reportcaster.jsp

  where:

  hostname:[port]

  Is the host name and optional port number (specified only if you are not using the default port number) of the Application Server where the ReportCaster Web application is deployed.

  rc_context_root

  Is the site-customized context root for the ReportCaster Web application deployed on your Application Server. The default value is rcaster.

• From the WebFOCUS Welcome Page. WebFOCUS provides a single JSP containing options for accessing all installed WebFOCUS components. The default URL for this page is

  http://hostname:[port]/wf_context_root/welcome.jsp

  where:

  hostname:[port]

  Is the host name and optional port number (specified only if you are not using the default port number) where the WebFOCUS Web application is deployed.

  wf_context_root

  Is the site-customized context root for the WebFOCUS Web application deployed on your Application Server. The default value is ibi_apps.

  The following image shows the WebFOCUS Welcome page, which displays all installed WebFOCUS components. The right side of the page provides options to access the ReportCaster Development and Administration Interface logon page, the Report Library Content logon page, and the ReportCaster Console logon page.

  

Click ReportCaster to access the ReportCaster Development and Administration Interface logon page. Type a valid ReportCaster user ID and password, then click Logon.

The ReportCaster Development and Administration Interface opens, as shown in the following image.

The options that appear depend upon whether you, the ReportCaster Administrator, have either or both schedule and library capability. From the ReportCaster Development and Administration Interface, you can access tools to perform the following functions:

• Create and maintain ReportCaster users and groups for non-Managed Reporting users. For more information, see Enabling ReportCaster Capabilities for Non-Managed Reporting Users.
• Create and maintain a Distribution List. For more information, see Working With Distribution Lists in the ReportCaster Applet.
• Create and maintain a schedule. For more information, see Maintaining Schedules in the ReportCaster Applet Interface.
• Define dates on which schedules cannot run or be set to run. For more information, see Schedule Blackout Dates.
• View a log report and maintain the log file. For more information, see Tracking a Schedule in the Applet Interface.
• Move ReportCaster data, such as schedules and Library Access Lists, between server environments, for example, from a test environment to a production environment. For more information, see About ReportCaster Change Management.
• Access the Library Access List, Library Management, and Library Content interfaces of the Report Library. For more information, see Using the Report Library From the Applet.
• Maintain and view schedule and log information, globally change values stored in the ReportCaster Repository, and manage the ReportCaster Distribution Server processing of schedules for execution. For more information, see ReportCaster Console Applet.
• Access the ReportCaster environment configuration settings. For more information, see Configuring ReportCaster Using the Applet Tool.