C-LANG Statements › OUTDESTTYPE Statement—Specify the Output Type for a PeopleSoft Report

OUTDESTTYPE Statement—Specify the Output Type for a PeopleSoft Report

The OUTDESTTYPE statement specifies the output destination type for a PeopleSoft report.

Supported Job Type

This statement is optional for the PeopleSoft job type.

Syntax

This statement has the following format:

OUTDESTTYPE output_type

output_type

Specifies the field number or field name of the output destination type. PeopleSoft stores the list of output destination types in the PSXLATITEM table.

Limits: Up to 8 characters; case-sensitive; it cannot contain delimiters (such as spaces)

Default: NONE

Options are the following:

Notes:

• Your agent administrator can specify a default output type for all PeopleSoft jobs by setting the ps.default.outDestType parameter in the agent's agentparm.txt file.
• The OUTDESTTYPE statement overrides the default setting specified in the ps.default.outDestType parameter in the agent's agentparm.txt.
• If you specify EMAIL or WEB as the output destination type, you can email the PeopleSoft report to recipients on a distribution list.
• This statement corresponds to the Type field in PeopleSoft.

Example: Specify Email as the Output Type

This example specifies an output destination type of EMAIL with the file format of PDF:

AGENT PSAGENT
PROCESSNAME XRFWIN
PROCESSTYPE Crystal
OUTDESTTYPE EMAIL
OUTDESTFORMAT PDF
PSOPRID VP2

Example: Specify Printer as the Output Type

This example specifies an output destination type of PRINTER with the file format of PS:

AGENT PSAGENT
PROCESSTYPE 'SQR Report'
PROCESSNAME XRFWIN
OUTDESTFORMAT PS
OUTDESTTYPE PRINTER
OUTDESTPATH \\CA\PRINTER1