Automatic naming for reports

[lsw82]

Hi there,

I want my script to name my reports automatically according to dates, just like what i can do with naming snapshots, but I could not see the possibility of doing that with the file-report output-to command. Please advice. Thanks :)

[Chris]

It is possible to include the date in the file name of reports. Scripting has the variables %date% (yyyy-mm-dd) and the %fn_time% (hh-mm-ss) to include dates and times in file names.

As an example, to include the date in the name of a file-report output:

file-report layout:side-by-side output-to:foo_report-%date%.txt

[lsw82]

Hi Chris,

I have successfully done the %date% command, but I have a question here:

I tried to write a script to save the report to another folder, like output-to:"C:\Windows\Desktop\foo_report-%date%.txt" but it doesn't work.

Please advice. Thanks again.

[chrroe]

Hi!

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but it doesn't work.

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That's not a good description of the problem! Describe it more verbose please ...

One quick idea:
Try output-to:"C:\Windows\Desktop\foo_report-"%date%".txt"

Havn't tried it, but I think placeholders in quotes are not expanded.


Bye
Christoph

[Chris]

The %date% variable should work.

Here's an example script that worked on my system:
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file-report layout:side-by-side output-to:"c:\w\foo_report-%date%.txt"

If you still can't get it to work, please post your full script, along with any error messages that you are getting.