Deferred Reports reliability
Deferred Reports reliability
(OP)
I've been asked to automate the inventory resets and MRP regens to run overnight. I used the Macola deferred reports about 10 years ago and gave up because I couldn't get it to run more than a week without having to check on it - kind of defeated the purpose of a scheduled report. I see that the scheduler has not changed in 10+ years and have also seen old threads on this issue, so I'm not optimistic that my deferred reports experience will be any different this time. I guess I'm asking if anyone is successfully using deferred reports or if anyone has developed a working substitute. I know this is not a high priority for Exact, but would it be too much to ask to have a services-type scheduler for deferred report processing?
RE: Deferred Reports reliability
On regular reports, not processes like you are suggesting, there are a number of crystal report schedulers out there that are very affordable. You'd need to recreate the report in Crystal but if you start with the ICR this is pretty easy.
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RE: Deferred Reports reliability
We have gotten around it by training one of the planners here to create and automate the processes and to understand the report spooled to his printer at the end of the process.
Good luck.