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Hi. Can reporting 5 be used as a stand alone service? In particular, can I generate a report without using either WAB or GTX viewer? Rather, I'd like to launch the report from both a custom web app and a .net windows app. Thanks

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  • Bryan Lynn

    Zorba,

     

    Did you ever get an answer for this? I am wondering the same thing.

     

    Thanks,

    Bryan

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Hi @Zorba Conlen? and @Bryan Lynn? ,

     

    Did either of you figure out a way to run report 5 as a stand alone service? I would like to do the same thing.

     

    Thanks,

    Nataliya

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  • Bryan Lynn

    No but I did get the following info from support. So it looks like it should be possible but not the most straight forward.

     

    It is possible to run a report externally, with some instructions on how to do so here:

    https://developers.geocortex.com/docs/reporting/key-concepts/

     

    I didn't have any luck getting the above method to work. I am looking at working with their professional services for some help. If you get it to work I would appreciate some feedback on how you did it.

     

    I will let you know if we get it working. There is an entry in the "Ideas" page for this you can upvote. https://communities.geocortex.com/s/ideas

     

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  • Permanently deleted user

    I never got a response, but the reporting api suggests that it should be possible. Thanks for the info Bryan.

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Thank you for the information Bryan. I stumbled upon the API documentation another day too, but I wish there was more detailed explanation on how to implement this. The over all concept makes sense, but for a non-developer like myself, it's not straight forward at all.

     

    I did up-vote the idea.

     

    And when you get it to work, I would greatly appreciate if you could share it.

     

    Thanks,

     

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Hi @Zorba Conlen? and @Bryan Lynn? ,

     

    I was able to get report 5 to run and download with Python.

     

    Here are steps and script:

    1. Downloaded the script from GitHub: https://github.com/geocortex/geocortex-reporting-client-py/
    2. Installed the "pip install geocortex-reporting-client"
    3. Modified downloaded sample.py file to add my Report Item ID, and to include a part to download/save the report PDF file.
    4. Here is the final script:

     

    This is very useful for us. We update Covid report every day, and having the report creation/download automated is very helpful.

     

    *Also, after we download the report we use the AWS copy command to copy the report to AWS S3 folder, and share that link with our user.

     

    I hope this is helpful, and let me know if you have any questions.

     

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  • Permanently deleted user

    python

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  • Bryan Lynn

    Thanks for the info. We have an open case to work with Professional Services and I will post any new info I get for working with JavaScript. Just gotta get some time to focus on it.

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  • Bryan Townsend

    Bryan L - curious if you were able to get this figured out. We are attempting the same with javascript and accessing through an external application.

    Thanks

    Bryan T

     

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  • Bryan Lynn

    We have not. But to be honest, we haven't worked on it much since my last post. I have an open request with Geocortex support and I am hoping to get to it this week. However, given our complex security setup I am not sure it will ever work.

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