The Reporting Module includes an automatic import facility, which provides an alternative method for importing report definitions. This facility automatically imports .rpz and .spz files into the reporting module at startup and at regular intervals after startup.
To import report definitions automatically, you need to place your reports in the imports directory, which is defined as \reportContent\plugins. The physical location of this directory is based on the system configuration value specified for the Location of the Reports setting. For example, suppose you configure your system to use this file system directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\John Smith
In this case, the import facility checks for .rpz and .spz files in the following location:
C:\Documents and Settings\John Smith\reportContent\plugins
The automatic import facility performs the following steps:
At startup and every 60 seconds from then on, the Reporting Module checks to see if there are any .rpz or .spz files in the imports directory (as described above).
If any files are detected, these files are moved to a temporary location and processed one by one. Internally, the import facility sets the import override flag to On, which causes existing files with the same names to be overwritten.
The results of each import operation are logged through Novell Audit logging.