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Scheduled Reports - how to enter relative starting dates for date ranges (e.g. on able-to-make report)?

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I want, every week, to schedule the "Able to Make (timeline)" report for the next 10 Weeks.

how do i get the Start Date field to change to the current day on each scheduled report run?

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benovic 350 on at

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leaving the start date field blank, i get this when i try to run the report:

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Hi

Try T in date. Then I assume every time report run it will use the current dat. Do you try to use Send To in report then Schedule then set the next run something like 1D? I mean I believe that is the only time if you use T it works.

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if i input anything like T or CW, the string is replaced by the date value immediately, before saving the report. this does not work alas

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if this is just not possible vie UI,

would it be feasible to change this with a report extension?

something

if start date < WORKDATE

then start date = WORKDATE

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MahGah 15,583 on at

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Hi

I am not sure. I scheduled the report in our environment to see if Job Queue auto adjust the date. These are my steps (I used T). I will keep you posted tomorrow.

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MahGah 15,583 on at

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Hi

My test failed. I checked again with some other people and they said you may need to do what you mentioned. Also, they said you can use Parameter String to populate fields. For example in parameter string you can enter CW or T and then in extension refer to this

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Hi MahGah,

thanks alot for your extensive check!

i am currently looking into reportextension, but i think it is not straight forward.

since it is a scheduled report, i don't know if "requestpage" is even right here since the actual page is not opened.

i cannot find a practical example for your "Parameter String to populate fields" example. Can you maybe link me somewhere where i can documentation and an example on how to use this?

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MahGah 15,583 on at

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You are welcome. Sorry I am not developer and have no knowledge here.

See below example

https://www.integrated.ee/posts/business-central-job-queue-parameters/

cloudblogs.microsoft.com/.../

I think based on the below article also it is possible that you create codeunit and pass the string to it. Which means you even do not need to deal with report. Possibly you can create a codeunit, schedule it in job queue, then codeunit reads the parameter and pass it to report.

docs.microsoft.com/.../reportinstance-runrequestpage-method

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Thanks for this!

i went another route, i copied the complete .al files and the .rdl in my extension and changed two parts, once the layout -> options part and once this::

procedure Initialize(NewStartingDate: Date; NewDateInterval: Option; NewNoOfIntervals: Integer; NewShowDetails: Boolean)

begin

//StartDate := NewStartingDate; // change this to WorkDate always (we commented this out in Options Layout)

StartDate := WorkDate;

DateInterval := NewDateInterval;

NoOfIntervals := NewNoOfIntervals;

ShowDetails := NewShowDetails;

end;

i can run and schedule the new report, tomorrow i know if it actually works :)

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