The scope of this document is to show how DocumentBurster™ can be used to achieve more complex report delivery scenarios.
In this document, you'll learn how to
From time to time, some report distribution requirements might need to execute an external program during the report bursting lifecycle, distribute SMS messages, upload reports to enterprise portals, send reports by Fax or to print the output burst reports. In other situations it might be required to upload the reports using more secure protocols such as FTPs, SFTP or SCP. Before sending the reports, it is also possible to encrypt the output reports or stamp the distributed reports in much the same way that it is applied a rubber stamp to a paper document.
If required, DocumentBurster™ can be scripted in order to support advanced customized report distribution needs.
While it might look like an overkill to write scripts for doing report distribution, it is actually a powerful and flexible approach for implementing very specific requirements. Furthermore the default DocumentBurster™ software package is coming with a set of already written scripts which can be used almost out of the box.
In most of the real life situations, just taking an existing script (appropriate for the task in hand) and doing very small adjustments (for example giving FTP host, user name and password) will be all that is required to achieve complex requirements.
DocumentBurster™ does not reinvent the wheel and it integrates with cURL in order to achieve the most complex document distribution situations.
DocumentBurster™ does offer close integration with cURL, a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. cURL supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.
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special script to be developed, feel free
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