Scheduling BO deski reports with prompts

Hi All,
I am pretty new to this site and Business Objects also... can anyone help me plzzz...
Below is my requirement..
Environment: Business Objects XI 3.1, Oracle Database, Deski reports.
In my deski report I have column called Product ID..This column has many list of values (for example 500 lov's) and this varies every month, may increase or decrease.
I have to schedule this report(like for a period of one year and should run every month-end) and it should generate all separate .xls reports for all the ID lov's , i,e it should generate like all 500 reports at a time and send it to a file system(Destination).
And these IDu2019s are not users in BO and there are no Profiles created in BO.
Can anyone tell me how can we do this.

Hello,
This is a very common requirement but unfortunately it's not an "out of the box" functionality.
If you know Java script you should investigate "Publication Extensions", this will allow you to add post publication rules.
Have a look at Page 33 in the publishing guide:
[http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi3-1_publisher_en.pdf]
Publication Extensions:
A publication extension is a dynamically loaded library of code that applies
business logic to publications. Publication extensions are useful for situations
where you require additional automated customization of publications after
processing or delivery.
For example, use publication extensions to perform the following tasks after
processing:
u2022 Merge documents of the same type (for example, merging multiple Excel
spreadsheets into a single Excel workbook).
u2022 Add password protection to or encrypt a document.
u2022 Convert a document to a different format.
u2022 Create custom log files for the publication job.
Regards
Rim
Edited by: Rim Geurts on Aug 13, 2010 11:20 AM
Edited by: Rim Geurts on Aug 13, 2010 11:22 AM

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