Automating Report Distribution

Reports produced by the Report Writer are stored on the local computer. If you want to distribute the reports automatically, you can edit the job batch file to publish them on the web.

The easiest way to distribute reports through the web is to run a web server on the Windows NT system where the Report Writer is running. If you need to post your HTML reports to external web server, then you’ll need to follow the steps described below:

To post HTML reports to a web server

Create all your HTML report files in the same (and preferably empty) directory.
Set up a command-line FTP script with the correct user name, password, and path information, such as the following example:

user username password
lcd C:\Progra~1\Usagea~1\Reports
cd /web/hthome/reports
bin
prompt
mput *.htm *.jpg
bye

Modify your job batch file to run a command-line FTP script.