Action Configuration Page

On the action configuration page, you can add new actions to a task as well as change already existing actions of a task.
There are 5 different types of actions, each having certain action properties:

This action causes the report to be rendered and cached. This is only available for hard disk and database cache.

There are no properties available for cache actions.

This action causes emails to be sent when the rendering of reports in a task has been completed. Please make sure you have correctly entered your email server information (POP3 host, SMTP host, etc.) in the runtime settings for this to work correctly.

• Subject - This is the subject which will appear in the email to be sent.
• To - The desired recipient(s) of the email to be sent. For more than one, please separate with semi-colons.
• CC - The desired recipient(s) of carbon copies of the email to be sent. For more than one, please separate with semi-colons.
• BC - The desired recipient(s) of blind carbon copies of the email to be sent. For more than one, please separate with semi-colons.
• Message - The body text of the email to be sent
• Attach Report - Whether or not the rendered reports are to be attached to the email.
• Zip Attachment - Whether or not the attachments sent with the email are to be zipped.

This action saves the rendered reports to a directory you specify.

• Path - Please enter the path of where you would like to save your rendered reports. (Example: C:/)
• Append Date - This determines whether the date of execution is appended to the filename, such as: “report_Mar 23,2005.pdf”
• Append Time - This determines whether the time of execution is appended to the filename, such as: “report_12_59_04.pdf”

This action causes the rendered reports to be printed to a printer of your choice.

• Printer Name - The name of the printer where the reports should be printed, e.g.: ”\\srvName\Lexmark T632”. If none is entered the default printer will be used.
• Number of copies - The number of copies to be printed
• Paper Orientation - Whether to use the printer's default paper orientation or to force portrait or landscape orientation.
• Quality - Whether to print the rendered reports in draft, normal, or high quality mode.
• Use color - Whether the printer is to use color ink while printing
• Printer resolution - The resolution to be used by the printer, measured in dpi. Default is 72.

With the FtpAction it is possible to upload generated reports to a FtpServer.

Custom actions are actions which you can define yourself by supplying a Java class which extends the abstract class ScheduleAction. When this action is executed, its method by the name of action(ExecutedTask) is invoked.

• Action Configuration Name - This is the name of your custom action.
• Action Class Name - This is the name of your class which should extend the abstract class ScheduleAction
• Action Class Path - If your class is not in the default class path, you may add the path of where your class can be found.

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