FR v 11 Batch Bursting - passing 2 Dims

Question

We are trying to use the Batch Bursting tool and it works great for all our reports with only one DIM POV (ie Company). Running into issues trying to figure out how to burst when I have two different Dim's that I need to pass (ie Departmental Report - Company and Department). What complicates the issue is that we are assigning user access to each bursted .pdf report. I would prefer not to have 20+ different scheduled batchs, one for each Company and still not sure if that is going to work without having to have multiple copies of the report itself. Still trying to understand how bursting works in total. We migrated from useing Hyperin Enterpirse Reporting which had a much simpler bursting tool which allowed us to pass as many different Dim POV's as we wanted.
Side question - When you create the .xml file you are assigning the different POV's that you want to burst. From the app you are only allowed to select one Dim. Is that correct or am I missing something or can you modify the .xml file directly to allow two or more Dim POV's to be passed. Adding the Bursting file to the .xml is simple and works.
Our reports are setup to allow the user to select their POV and the report is set to show Current Member and children. In this fashion I only have to have one report and it can allow users to see parent information with children or just one child (example - we use this for Departmental reports. Controller would see all departments with summary department while Depart Mgr would only see their single depart). This works great when you have 20 + Companies with 40+ Departments each. One report works for all. Note this is only for users that have access to run the reports. Most of our users just get to view published reports - thus the bursting issue.

Answer 1

Hi
As far as I am aware the bursting does only allow you burst on a single dimension, but I'd be interested to know if anyone has managed to amend the XML to allow more.
Possible workarounds bepend upon the current make up of your batch and what you want the output to look like. It sounds like you have a single report in the batch and want 20 x 40 individual PDF files as the output, the report itself having at least two dimensions on the POV?
If this is correct then personally I would set up multiple books rather than multiple batches, but that is as much because I'm not that comfortable amending the XML files as any other reason. If you're not familiar with books then you can add multiple reports to a book (should you need to) and run any of the reports in the book for multiple POVs, the downside if you want seperate files is that a book will complete as a single file.
Try setting up the 20+ books, each one with a different Company in the Book POV, you can then add all 20+ books into a single batch and burst them all on your Department hierarchy.
Let me know if this is useful or just how you get on, more and more clients are wanting this functionality so always interested to hear how people are using this and how successful it is.
Good luck
Stuart