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   Gondwana, Member

   I have a requirement to write a PDF report detailing the state of the database every quarter (+/-) for historical purposes. This is not a cron process. It will be launched by a human once certain conditions are met. The only solution I see is for a user to generate the report and export it. Depending upon the browser configuration, the user may need to save the file to a known local location. Then start another process to move the report from his/her client back to the server where it is stored and referenced in the database.

   It would be nice if the user could simply start a process that writes the report to the server file system and updates the database. This would be a superior user experience.

   Does myDBR have anything to help me deliver on this user requirement?
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   myDBR Team, Key Master

   Sounds like it would be easier to create a report that would gather the data and store the data to the database with timestamp. You would then be able to access the history report as a PDF whenever you want and later be able to do other statistics from the data.

   If you still want to create a PDF report that you wish to store into the server, you need some kind of server process that calls myDBR report and saves the output to a file in your desired location in the server. How to do that depends on your server configuration.

   We would recommend taking a look at the first option.

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   myDBR Team

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