REPORT_OBJECT ¿how initialize it?

Question

I am using REPORT_OBJECT to send report by FTP. Parameter 'Desname' in URL is one of most important to manage it. In order to make my forms flexible I storage in "Report Target Name" property, of my logical Report in the deployed tree of my Forms, the IP machine and directory, getting the report_name from a parameter sended thru a procedure:
ftp://anonymous:@10.13.217.30/ftps/ (value fixed in "Report Target Name" property)
It works fine the first call to RUN_REPORT_OBJECT but after the first one, the report name, storage in "Report Target Name" property doesn´t initialize to its initial value fixed with Forms. So, in the second call, is added the report_name parameter, putting by program, to the prior one existing before, and looks finally two times, sequentially. In order to watch the storaged value, I do next::
by program I do:
myname := SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(report_id,REPORT_DESNAME)||report_name:
message (‘myname: ‘)
and looks:
ftp://anonymous:@10.13.217.30/ftps/My_report_nameMy_report_name
I hope it´s been well described the problem.
Thanks and I´m looking forward to hearing about it.
Edited by: Castrillo on 17-oct-2011 3:33
Edited by: Castrillo on 17-oct-2011 3:44

Answer 1

myname := SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(report_id,REPORT_DESNAME)||report_name:I guess you mean GETREPORTOBJECT_PROPERTY?
It is not a good idea to hard code values like that in your form. What if the ftp server changes? You'll have to modify your forms code!
It is better to have system parameters stored in a database table, and retrieve them from there. Your code would be sometheting like:
select parameter_value
into v_ftp_destination
from parameter_table
where parameter = 'FTP_DEST';
myname := v_ftp_destination || report_name;
SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(repid, REPORT_DESTYPE, v_ftp_destination);
SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(repid, REPORT_DESNAME, myname);