Schedule a report to run everyday with that day's date

aseigle

I've posted this on Microsoft's Partner forum and never go a response, so I thought I'd try my luck here.

My question is not how to schedule a report, or how to schedule a report to run every day. I understand how to use the Schedule option, and the Job queue to set up a recurrence.

What I want to do is run the Daily Invoicing Report every day, with the current day's date at the date filter. So today is the 11th, to when I run the report today, date filter is 11. When I run it tomorrow, date filter is the 12th. I don't want to have to change the filter everyday. I want/should be able to set up recurrences for a report and then have the report update daily. I know if pages there are functions like %WORKDATE and %TODAY, but they don't appear to work with reports. I can enter it, but once I close the record, it loses the function and is just a standard date. any ideas?

Kishorm

Had a read of the post you mentioned and I couldn't get it to work for filters on the DataItems (it stored both the text and date values) but it did work based on my 2nd post - except you don't have to parse/evaluate yourself - it's all done by the client. Here's what you do...

1) Create a Text variable to hold your date filter expression

2) Add it to the Request page

3) In the OnPreDataItem trigger add code to apply the filter e.g.

SETFILTER("Date Filter",MyDateFilter);

You can now enter complex filter expressions and it evaluates perfectly, I tried something a bit silly to test... e.g. TODAY..%CM%|WORKDATE..%+1M%

As the filter expression is evaluated at the time it is run it will update as required.

rico1931

You'll have to create a report with the parameters and schedule the Job Queue to run that report. We do it to Run our MRP/MPS reports. It gets pretty complicated with some codeunits being called at the same time :-/ ...

Kishorm

Not ideal but one option is to add a Tick box option for "Today's Date" and if this is set then it overwrites the standard date filter with today's date - not much code needed for this to work.

aseigle

while that would work on reports that run for a specific date, it would break if the report had from/thru dates or a date range. I'm looking for a more global solution.

aseigle

This is what I'm looking for, but I can't seem to recreate it and make it work in NAV 2016.
https://navug.com/blogs/jason-wilder/2015/04/07/jays-nav-stuff

Kishorm

My previous suggestion was only for the scenario in the original post. Obviously this concept can be extended e.g. Instead of a check box you could have a text field to store a date formula filter expression so you could enter something like "-CM..CM" which you'd want to evaluate from the 1st of the current month to the end of the current month.

You'd need a bit more effort here to parse the expression (which could be more complicated) and evaluate date formula expressions to each part of the filter expression but again it's something that Is achievable. And once you've done it once you just put the main code in a codeunit which you can call for any reports that need the functionality.

Kishorm

Had a read of the post you mentioned and I couldn't get it to work for filters on the DataItems (it stored both the text and date values) but it did work based on my 2nd post - except you don't have to parse/evaluate yourself - it's all done by the client. Here's what you do...

1) Create a Text variable to hold your date filter expression

2) Add it to the Request page

3) In the OnPreDataItem trigger add code to apply the filter e.g.

SETFILTER("Date Filter",MyDateFilter);

You can now enter complex filter expressions and it evaluates perfectly, I tried something a bit silly to test... e.g. TODAY..%CM%|WORKDATE..%+1M%

As the filter expression is evaluated at the time it is run it will update as required.