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Bring up report that you want

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Right click on report frame and chose ‘properties’

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Copy the url address to get the string for creating the report

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Add &r=pdf in you shell script.

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Report is automagically produced in PDF.

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Embedded PerceiveEmbedded Perceive

Problem: Customer has existing internal website which has been highly developed. Provides Security and directed views. Perceive has data and the look but not the heart.

Solution: Combine the two sites.

- Or wait until the ESM Common reporting portal…

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Embedding URL’sEmbedding URL’s

All created views have an associated number - See reports.xml

Right-click on any view and create shortcut on desktop

http://localhost:8080/qtv/report2.jsp?report-id=6&ver=1&node-id=twhite2&sd=1082696400000&ed=1083024000000&domain-id=3&theme-id=pwc&width=815&height=509&isSaveAs=nullModified=C0C1104A042CC401D0

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Embedding URL’sEmbedding URL’s

Important fieldshttp://localhost:8080/qtv/report2.jsp?

report-id=6& ver=1&

node-id=twhite2& sd=1082696400000&

ed=1083024000000&width=815&height=509&isSaveAs=null

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Embedding URL’sEmbedding URL’s

Important fieldshttp://localhost:8080/qtv/report2.jsp?

report-id=6& Maps to reports.xml

ver=1&node-id=twhite2&

sd=1082696400000& milliseconds since

ed=1083024000000& EPOCH

width=815&height=509&isSaveAs=null

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EPOCH timeEPOCH time

Limitation with the embedding method is time is fixed!

sd=1082696400000& milliseconds since

ed=1083024000000& EPOCH

1083024000000 – 1082696400000 = 327600000 327600000 ms = 327600 sec = 5460 min = 91 hrs

EPOCH was 01/01/1970 12:00am

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Embed just the graphics Embed just the graphics

Use ‘chartimg’ http://localhost:8080/qtv/chartimg.jsp?chart-id=86&sd=1068121260000&ed=1068124860000&report-id=21&width=325&height=97&node-id=s400i.bmc.com&theme-id=pwc

To get quick links, in Perceive browse to the graphic you want to embed and in IE right-click-->Properties and copy the "Address" field into the address of your browser. Then play with the width/height, say, to change it.

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Other optionsOther options

Html output infers interaction with non-existent top frame. (Not good)

Use r=pdf to output pdfOthers are xml, csv, excel