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Distribution XML File Examples
overwrite the previously created file. For example, if you specify an output filename of
department.pdf, and you output separate instances of each department's report, the
second department.pdf file will overwrite the first department.pdf file; the third
will overwrite the second; an so on. You will end up with only one report, that of the
final department to be output. Instead, with grouped reports that you want to output
separately according to each group instance, use variable values to specify filenames,
for example: name="department_&<department_id>.pdf".
The examples in this section include:
■ File for Whole Report
■ File for Combined Report Sections
■ File for Each Group of Combined Sections
■ File for Each Report Group Instance
15.4.3.1 File for Whole Report
This example will yield one file named report.pdf that contains the entire report.
15.4.3.1.1 Windows
15.4.3.1.2 UNIX
15.4.3.2 File for Combined Report Sections
This example will yield one file named sections.pdf that contains a report consisting of
the header section and the main section of the report.
15.4.3.3 File for Each Group of Combined Sections
In this example, a separate file will be created for each repeating group. Each file will
contain a report that combines the relevant group main and trailer sections. The main
and trailer sections must repeat on the same group, and the variable file name must
refer to a column contained within the "repeat on" group. That is, if the report repeats
on department_id, and you have four departments, 10 through 40, then one file will
contain the main and trailer sections of department 10; the next will contain the main
and trailer sections of department 20; and so on. The variable value under name must
refer to a column that is within the G_department_id group.
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