Waterloo Information Systems Limited

33 Dupont Street East

Waterloo, Ontario

N2J 2G8

© Waterloo Information Systems Limited 2000

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I. Introduction

WISL eREP provides for the generation of reports as files that may be electronically transferred to the recipient anywhere through e-mail or alternate mechanism and viewed with the desktop facility of choice as text or HTML documents.

II. e-report Generation

The facility takes advantage of the existing structure of WISL report specification which provides for the collection of "print mode" for each report that is generated. If the printer has been specified as "erep" and if the user specifies "P" to the print mode prompt then file name is prompted and the generated report will be available to the WISL eREP interactive routine.

WISL utilizes its own "Printer Control" utility to specify the object printer for the UniVerse spooler. If the "erep" printer can be specified for reports of non-WISL information systems applications then the file handling and display preparation facilities can also be utilized with those print files.

Access to this routine would be made available in the main report menu of WISL applications or from the command prompt \ERP. The routine provides a list of all files available for printing by specified name. Various parameters related to format and distribution are prompted. Upon assignment of a file name the routine saves the file in an export directory whereupon it may be transferred with the processor of choice to any destination.

Almost any desktop facility can be utilized to display or edit the report results. Special formatting is available if the file had been saved as HTML and a browser is utilized for display. Other desktop facilities such as word processors may we used if desired.