Calling a report using its URL

rbuser

Hi!

I'm running the tutorial demos of RB Server and I'm interested specially in
the WebTier capabilities.

The examples show a report explorer inside Internet Explorer and we can see
the URL's of each report in the right pane, such as :
http://localhost/myWebTier/myWebTier.dll?content=viewer&volume=Examples&name=rb001CustomerList&folder=v0&SessionID={0B2633A1-77F3-4056-B9F5-3D8BCD4A5FB9}&zoom=70

I tried to open the following URL :
http://localhost/myWebTier/myWebTier.dll?content=viewer&volume=Examples&name=rb001CustomerList
(its the same URL above except for the lst params)

and the report appears normally.

Is there some problems to open the reports without those last params
(folder, sessionid, etc) ?

In fact, I'm asking because I will have to call many reports from many
HTML/ASP web pages in the intranet.

TIA

Jose Carlos
Brazil

nardmoseley

You probably should include the SessionID. This is assigned when the user
runs the first report. Each session created on the server maintains state
information. So there is overhead in creating a session. Sessions timeout
when no further activity occurs.

The other parameters are going to be state related: FolderID, Zoom setting,
etc. You can include or omit these as you desire.

See the custom parameters demo: RBuidler\Demos\WebTier\Custom Parameters.


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
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