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Resolved Advice On How to Check for and Manage Old/Unused Reports

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  1. Brendan Barr
    Brendan Barr
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  3. Thursday, 13 October 2022 12:59 PM UTC

Hello All!

It is my first time posting to this community so thank you in advance for any advice you can provide. For background knowledge we are running InfoMaker 2019 Build 2083.

Our InfoMaker knowledge is limited admittedly, and in conjunction with how messy the drive we use to store our reports is, we have encountered a problem. Staff have created so many reports/copies of previous versions of reports in their .pbls, to the extent where old reports now have the potential of being used incorrectly. 

Does anyone have any advice on how to run a check to determine all reports that have NOT been accessed for a certain period of time (lets say 12 months), and then move them to either an archive folder or different .pbl?

I am curious how other users handle this issue. Any help would be appreciated!

Best,

Brendan

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
Chris Pollach @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Saturday, 15 October 2022 14:12 PM UTC
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  3. # 1

Hi Brendan;

   Sounds like a good project for a programmer / analyst to through the system & confirm with the business users what reports are still relevant.

Regards ... Chris 

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Miguel Leeuwe
Miguel Leeuwe Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Saturday, 15 October 2022 09:43 AM UTC
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Hi,

If there's already a risk of old reports being used when they shouldn't, obtaining the information of which reports have been used lately and which ones not, won't help you very much either. You might leave in an old report because it was (incorrectly) used recently, or you might archive a newer report simply because no one has used it for some time.

regards,

MiguelL

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Roland Smith
Roland Smith Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 14 October 2022 14:17 PM UTC
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I don't see how it would be possible to determine which reports are not being used in InfoMaker. InfoMaker doesn't track that.

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Sivaprakash BKR
Sivaprakash BKR Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 14 October 2022 14:02 PM UTC
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  3. # 4

Also Check this thread

https://community.appeon.com/index.php/qna/q-a/list-of-unused-objects-in-a-pb2019-project

 

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Sivaprakash BKR
  1. Sivaprakash BKR
  2. Saturday, 15 October 2022 05:01 AM UTC
Sorry, I thought it's for Powerbuilder. No idea about Infomaker.

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Sivaprakash BKR
Sivaprakash BKR Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 14 October 2022 13:55 PM UTC
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  3. # 5

Hello,

Check Visual Expert  Their website says

 

HTH

Happiness Always
BKR Sivaprakash

 

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