Placeholders in the CMC – Business Objects（II）

This is the second part of “Placeholders in the CMC – Business Objects”, please see the first part here

10. Placeholder List

Table Placeholder Variables

11. For “Viewer Hyperlink”, we can set it from Applications -> CMC -> Processing Settings

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12. So, for Notification setting, we can configure it like below:

13. To keep the placeholder setting, we’d better set it in “Default Settings”. The Schedule steps will copy the default settings, and we can customize them if necessary.

Conclusion

In this post, I illustrate the schedule placeholder variables in details. These variables help us manage report scheduling easier and with less effort, especially when we schedule report to a file system, and we configure email notification for success or failure.

There are several know issues regarding placeholders, they are:

1. The format of %SI_STARTTIME% is not configurable. It is fixed as “YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS”. In the BOB forum, I see a lot people ask to set it differently. Another case is some people would like to remove time element, such as YYYYMMDD. From some discussion I know there is a hidden placeholder named %SI_STARTDATE% can help. But I didn’t get it work for the report schedule page, and some others reported the same problem. It turns out it works for publisher and need some further validation.
2. %SI_DOCUMENT_NAME% cannot be evaluated during the report scheduling, either. It is displayed plain as %SI_DOCUMENT_NAME% in the export file name.