Job Scheduler & Dataports Setting

pang
pang Member Posts: 13
edited 2008-06-04 in NAV/Navision Classic Client
I am trying to do a setup to run dataports on Job Scheduler. We added a file path for each job so the dataport request form doesn't need to be shown.

Does any one know if I have to change the dataport to make the UseReqForm set to false? I know this will work. And Looks like it can't be changed by the code. But the customer also like to manually run the dataport in the mean time. So now looks like I have to make a copy of each dataport for running it manually.

Any suggestion will be appreciated.

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  • DaveT
    DaveT Member Posts: 1,039
    Hi Pang,

    You could create a codeunit ( or report ) to run the dataports in the job scheduler and use

    dataport.run( number, false );

    Where number is the dataport number and false turns off the request form
    Dave Treanor

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  • pang
    pang Member Posts: 13
    Thanks Dave,

    But this way I couldn't pass through the file path in there. The idea is to set the path outside of the codeunit.

    I did a report to run through all the scheduler and read all the files under the path use file table.

    ImpFile.RESET;
    ImpFile.SETFILTER(Path,DELCHR(FilePath,'>','\'));
    ImpFile.SETRANGE("Is a file", TRUE);

    dptImp.FILENAME := ImpFile.Path + '\' + ImpFile.Name;
    dptImp.RUNMODAL;
  • DaveT
    DaveT Member Posts: 1,039
    Hi Pang,

    You can solve this by using the
    dataport.run( number, false );

    and then in the dataport in the onpredataport trigger put
    IF CurrDataport.FILENAME = '' THEN
   CurrDataport.FILENAME := 'c:\davetest.txt';

    and lookup the filename as you were doing.

    This will allow the user to run manually and select their own file.
    Dave Treanor

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  • pang
    pang Member Posts: 13
    The customer want to run a bunch of files under a folder. That's why I use the file table.

    And if I add the file table loop to the dataport, I need to do it for maybe 10 dataports. And I am not sure if it will work for manually running. e.g. select single file.
  • DaveT
    DaveT Member Posts: 1,039
    Hi Pang,

    Then another suggestion - generate output to a fixed filename/path and rename it when dataport is finished
    Dave Treanor

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  • kriki
    kriki Member, Moderator Posts: 9,127
    If you want to run the jobscheduler from a NAS, you CAN'T use dataports. You need to convert them to a codeunit or a report.
    Regards,Alain Krikilion
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