URL to run a report file that is not located in $ORACLE_HOME/reports dir

Question

All,
I know very little about configuring reports on the web.
We have had a 10g App Server running for several years. All of our reports files so far have been located in the Middle Tier's $ORACLE_HOME/reports directory.
We now have a need to create sub-directories under the reports directory and run reports out of those sub-directories.
After poking around the documentation, I'm not seeing how to do this.
For example:
$ORACLE_HOME/reports (has some legacy reports files in it)
$ORACLE_HOME/reports/EI22 (new directory where we want to put EI22 related reports)
$ORACLE_HOME/reports/EI23 (new directory where we want to put EI32 related reports.....etc)
Normally, to run my reports in the $OH/reports directory, I use an URL like the following:
http://hostname.domainname/reports/rwservlet?report=reportfilename.rdf&userid=uname/pwd@dbname&desformat=html&destype=cache
How would I run a report file that now resides in the EI22 or EI23 directory?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Answer 1

As far as I know there is only one SourceDir property, you can assign multiple folders to it ... then at runtime you do not specify anything else in the URL, the reports server will look into each directory in the SourceDir (in order) for the report that you're trying to execute...
If you have multiple versions of the same report located in the same server, then that's tricky because at runtime the reports server will execute the one from the directory where it finds it first.
I personally prefer setting the REPORTS_PATH and having multiple ENVID sections that way in the URL I directly specify the ENVID which where the report is to be executed from...
Here at work we used it for multiple applications with totally independent folders, so each application uses its own ENVID to invoke the reports.
If you do not care/want this type of structure then use the SourceDir property that Andreas has mentioned and you do not need to add anything to your URL.