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Using the Designer Launch Files

After you install Designer successfully, you can find a set of utilities in the <install_root>\bin directory. You can edit all of these batch files (Windows)/script files (UNIX/Linux) to suit different circumstances if you know their functions for sure. This topic describes the usages of the launch files.

Updating the Page Properties of Multiple Reports

You can run PageSetup.bat/PageSetup.sh to update the page properties of all reports in a specified catalog at a time conveniently.

1. Run PageSetup.bat or PageSetup.sh to display the Page Setup for All Report dialog box.

   

2. Select Browse to specify the catalog that contains the reports the page properties of which you want to batch update.
3. In the General tab, edit the page properties you want to change for the reports.
4. In the Export tab, edit the page properties for the outputs of the reports in each export format: select a format from the Export To drop-down list, from the Use General Settings drop-down list, specify whether to use the settings you define in the General tab for this format, and if you select false, specify the size, orientation, and margin for the pages of the report outputs in this format accordingly.

   

5. Select Apply to All and a Warning dialog box displays, listing the page properties that will be updated.
6. Select OK to update the specified page properties for all reports in the catalog. For any property that you do not specify in the dialog box, Designer keeps its original value in all the reports.

Converting Reports to the Current Release

The following are examples of running rptconv.bat/rptconv.sh to convert reports created by earlier releases to the current.

To convert a single report

• rptconv "-source=C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports\SampleReports\Payroll Report.cls" "–target=C:\temp"

  This converts C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports\SampleReports\Payroll Report.cls to C:\temp\Payroll Report.cls.

• rptconv "-source=C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports\SampleReports\Payroll Report.cls" "–target=C:\temp\1.cls.xml"

  This converts C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports\SampleReports\Payroll Report.cls, saves the converted report to C:\temp, and names it 1.cls.xml (if the license allows).

• rptconv "-source=C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports\SampleReports\Payroll Report.cls"

  This converts C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports\SampleReports\Payroll Report.cls, saves the converted report in the same directory, and names it converted_Payroll Report.cls.

• rptconv "-source=C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports\SampleReports\Payroll Report.cls" -r

  This overwrites C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports\SampleReports\Payroll Report.cls.

To convert all reports (*.cls, *.rpt, *.clx, *.cls.xml) in a directory

• rptconv "-source=C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports" "–target=C:\temp"

  This converts all reports in C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports and saves the converted reports to C:\temp. The converted reports use the same file names as the source reports.

• rptconv "-source=C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports" "–target=C:\temp" -s

  This converts all reports in C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports and in the subdirectories and saves the converted reports to C:\temp. The converted reports apply the same file names and directory structure as the source reports.

• rptconv "-source=C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports" "–target=C:\temp\*.cls" -s

  This converts all reports in C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports and in the subdirectories and saves the converted reports to C:\temp. The converted reports apply the same directory structure as the source reports and use .cls as the file name extension.

• rptconv "-source=C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports" -r -s

  This converts all reports in C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports and in the subdirectories. The converted reports overwrite the source reports.

• rptconv "-source=C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports"

  This converts all reports in C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports and saves the converted reports in the same directory as "converted_SourceReportName".

To convert a group of reports with the same suffixes in a directory

The usage is similar to converting a directory. You can specify the wildcard to filter reports, for example:

rptconv "-source=C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports\SampleReports\*.cls" "–target=C:\temp"

This converts all reports with the .cls extension in C:\LogiReport\Designer\demo\reports\SampleReports and saves the converted reports to C:\temp.

• There must be one and only one catalog file in the directory where the reports to be converted reside.
• If the reports to be converted contain UDO or UDF, make sure you include the corresponding classes or jars in the class path of rptconv.bat/rptconv.sh.

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