output options

[jhatherill]

‘OUTPUT.REDIRECT’ is just “the front-end prompting for the report writer”.  It doesn’t reset or redirect anything.
The responses are (S)creen (P)rint  au(X) (D)if (E)mail f(A)x  exce(L)   
The response goes into VALUE and into WORK<26,5>
All types of things are put into WORK<26,nn>
There must be something in Prelude that takes these options and Assigns the output.
Do you have any idea what programs uses the results and sets the output option?

[Tom Pellitieri]

OUTPUT.REDIRECT is a subroutine in PROGS.  We use a local modification to allow us to use AccuTerm to download Excel instead of SB.Client.

Please note that OUTPUT.REDIRECT can take a parameter to change the presented options. Also, if you want your /RD reports to work with /GRIM, you need to use it. 

Of course, if you create a new /GRIM report, I recommend you copy the report TEMPLATE from the REPORTS file.

--Tom

[precisonline]

Check out PROGS REPORT.CLOSE.  That's where all these options are used, for outputting to Excel, email, fax, etc.