Tip of the day: Linux script to see which reports are run during the day

[Kenneth Brody]

On 2/3/2012 10:08 AM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>>>        A friend who does most of his own filePro programming is changing
> his
>>> printer setup.  He asked me if there was some way in filePro to capture
> the
>>> name of each report that is run during a typical day.  I whipped up this
> quick
>>> Mike Schwartz
>
>>
>> Another approach is to log each report as it is run from within filepro.
>> The system maintained field @fn has the report format name.
>>
>> @once::La="Date"<@td<",Time:"<@tm<"File"<@fi<"Report"<@fn<"Who:"<
>> @id{"";END
>>
>> Richard Kreiss
>
>        I neglected to mention that he has roughly 1,000 report formats on his
> system, so I couldn't think of anything that would add a couple of lines
> like this to each report format without having to modify all 1,000 formats.
> And the software runs separately at 3 different companies, where each
> location has modified its own reports, so that would be roughly 3,000
> reports that would need to have logging lines added.
>
>       A lot of these reports were written for 1-time use, so he's only
> interested in seeing reports that are run on a frequent basis but have not
> been modified yet to use his new print queue system.

Rename dreport and rreport, and replace them with scripts that log whatever 
it is you want logged, and then run the "real" *report program.

-- 
Kenneth Brody