Managed Reporting Settings

The Managed Reporting folder in the Configuration tab, shown in the following image, contains settings for ReportCaster to communicate with and access Managed Reporting. This folder is only available if you have installed the optional Managed Reporting product.

managed reporting settings

The Managed Reporting folder contains the following configuration settings.

Setting

Optional or Required/Default Value

Descriptions and Possible Values

Enabled

By default, this option is selected.

Enables and disables the connection between ReportCaster and Managed Reporting.

HTTP User

Optional.

If Web server authentication is enabled (when anonymous access is disabled), this user ID and password are used by both the ReportCaster Distribution Server and the WebFOCUS Reporting Server to make their respective connections to the Managed Reporting Repository on the Web server. If the Web server allows anonymous connections, then this parameter is not needed and should not be specified. This parameter is not prompted for during the installation of the ReportCaster Distribution Server.

To access the HTTP User settings, click the icon to the right of the HTTP User field. The User dialog box opens, where you can type the user name and password.

Repository Node

Optional.

Default value is http://hostname:port/ ibi_apps/WFServlet (where hostname is the host name of the server on which the Managed Reporting Repository is located. Specify the port only if it is not the default value of 80).

URL to the WebFOCUS Client (Servlet only) that is configured with Managed Reporting.

If you customized the URL context path value for the WebFOCUS Client, this parameter must be changed to reflect the new value. If this is not done, the ReportCaster Distribution Server will fail to connect to the WebFOCUS Client when trying to obtain a Managed Reporting procedure or distribute output to the Managed Reporting Repository.

Default Reuse Folder When Distributing to MR

Required.

By default, this option is not selected.

Selected. Reuses a folder each time a schedule distributes output to Managed Reporting.

Not Selected. Creates a folder each time a schedule distributes output to Managed Reporting.


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