Is exporting to Positional Flat File possible?

Post Author: wilsonricharda
CA Forum: Publishing
I would like to know if it's possible to export data generated from a scheduled Webi report to a positional flat file?I know it's possible to export to a CSV but I'm looking for fixed length positional. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.Thanks,Richard

Hi Richard,
Could you please let me know how did you schedule a report to send as an CSV attachment. There are only 3 output formats available currently namely:
1) WebIntelligence Document
2) Excel
3) PDF
It is possible to save a report in CSV format. But there is no CSV format available when a scheduled report needs to be exported. Only the above 3 options are available.
Do we need to configure the CMC for the CSV option to appear while specifying the output format of the report during scheduling. Or is anything else required for the CSV option to come up. Could you please provide your inputs on this.
Thanks,
Meghana

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Message Id
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Szkolenie
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Acknowledgement Mode
NONE
Response Mode
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Xpath Value1
Xpath Expression1
Xpath Name2
Xpath Value2
Xpath Expression2
Xpath Name3
Xpath Value3
Xpath Expression3
Correlation From XPath Name
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Correlation To XPath Expression
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Attachment
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Collaboration Name
Collaboration Version
Business Action Name
Exchange Protocol Name
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1.0
Interchange Control Number
Group Control Number
Transaction Set Control Number
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ERROR
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Id
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Message Id
AC18017B146145ADAB400000178AA4F1
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Export Report to flat file with spaces

I have a report that is several columns wide. It queries data from our SQL based accounting package to create a flat file with spaces(must be accurate). When we go export the file we don't get all of the columns. Any ideas?

Hi,
Are you exporting to CSV or Excel File?
Export to Excel.
Bashir Awan

Is exporting to Positional Flat File possible?

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