Reports 6i pdf output as an attachment

Question

I am using Reports 6i to create a vendor report card. We are then using Oracle ERP 11.5.9 apps to run the report card as a concurrent request. I need to figure out how to send the output of the concurrent request as a pdf email attachment.
One possibility I'm working on is to use a 3rd party reporting software called Optio which can be used to send the email as an attachment if I can direct Optio to the report output.
The problem is that the output (Desname) seems to be hard-coded in the apps. If I change the system parameter Desname in my rdf, the changes don't seem to take effect in the apps. Is it possible to change the Desname for one rdf and have that Desname honored when running the rdf as a concurrent request?

Answer 1

if your output file is less than 32kb then you can use the following code in your after report trigger
function AfterReport return boolean is
begin
SRW.USER_EXIT('FND SRWEXIT');
DECLARE
   vinhandle   UTL_FILE.file_type;
   rfile       RAW (32767);
   flen        NUMBER;
   bsize       NUMBER;
   ex          BOOLEAN;
   vrec        VARCHAR2 (30)      := '[email protected]';  --receiver's email id
   vsender     VARCHAR2 (30)      := '[email protected]';  --sender's email id
   vsubj       VARCHAR2 (50)      := 'subject';                   --subject
   vmesg       VARCHAR2 (4000);
   vmtype      VARCHAR2 (30)      := 'text/plain; charset=us-ascii';
BEGIN
   vmesg := 'Please print and complete attachment';      --message
   UTL_FILE.fgetattr ('CTEMP',                                     --name of the directory
                      'o' || :p_conc_request_id || '.out',            --name of the file
                      ex,
                      flen,
                      bsize
   vinhandle :=
             UTL_FILE.fopen ('CTEMP', 'o' || :p_conc_request_id || '.out',
                             'R');
   UTL_FILE.get_raw (vinhandle, rfile, flen);
   UTL_FILE.fclose (vinhandle);
   utl_mail.send_attach_raw (sender            => vsender,
                             recipients        => vrec,
                             subject           => vsubj,
                             MESSAGE           => vmesg,
                             attachment        => rfile,
                             att_inline        => FALSE,
                             att_filename      =>    'o'
                                                  || :p_conc_request_id
                                                  || '.out'
-- where CTEMP is a directory with path as $APPLCSF/out
END;
  return (TRUE);
end;
if you need to send attachments greater than 32kb see metalink doc 357385.1
hope this helps