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Web Publishing to a Web Server

Reports can be published to a web server location within your domain.

To publish reports on your domain web server

1. Map a network drive for the web server directory using the Microsoft wizard. You can then instruct the Windows Client to publish web reports in that location.
2. Open Explorer on the web server and create a subdirectory where you want the Windows Client to publish the CA Vantage reports. For example: “\Vantage\Webpublishing”.

   Note: The reason for creating a clean subdirectory for Windows Client generated web pages is that the Windows Client is going to send icon graphics, scripts, and web pages to that sub directory. This way, the files and file names do not clash with existing files on your web server.

3. In the Windows Client, open the User View that you want published on your web server.
   1. On the object view toolbar, click the Definitions icon and select View & Output Destinations.

      The View and Output Definition wizard is displayed.

   2. Select Destinations and click “Web Publishing”. The link Define the Web destination is highlighted.
   3. Click the link Define the Web destination, the Web Publishing page is displayed.
   4. Click the first row in the Directory box and the Browse for Folder window is displayed.

      Note: Do not select a mapped letter drive under “My Computer” to your web server. If you select a mapped letter drive under “My Computer” to your web server, then you cannot use the Scheduler to schedule output to the web server.

   5. Click Network. A list of your network drives is displayed. Select the network drive for your web server.
   6. Click OK. The full address of the web server appears in the Directory box.
4. Create a link to the Windows Client produced report on your web server. Once a web page has been generated (either by clicking Perform from the User View, or generated by the Scheduler), create a link to the web page produced by the Windows Client from somewhere on your intranet. Using your web page editor, insert a link on one of your existing web pages (for example your “Home page”), to the web page “WebPublishing.htm”. The “WebPublishing.htm” page is located in the subdirectory of your web server where you instructed the Windows Client to produce the web reports, for example in the directory \\Webserver\Vantage\WebPublishing.

   Note: To view the web pages that are created by the Windows Client, you need a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Viewer. If you do not have an SVG Viewer installed and you open WebPublishing.htm for the first time, you are prompted to install an SVG Viewer.

Observe the following:

• You can use the Scheduler to schedule when web reports are generated and published by the Windows Client in the View and Output Destination wizard. If you are using the Scheduler service, set up a user ID and password in the Scheduler service. Ensure that the Scheduler has write authority for the Web Server.
• For scheduled activities to obtain information from a host, define a valid host user ID and password in the Host Definition dialog. The system needs a valid host user ID defined in the Host Definition dialog. The system also needs a valid server user ID and password with write authority that is defined in the Scheduler service.