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9/2/2010 5:57 AM
 
Hello All,

A requirement arose yesterday and I am really not sure how to manage it.  If you can advise or direct, it would be great.

My client currently runs a query against their DNN application, then saves that as an Excel file and emails it to a distribution list.  I want to fully automate that process

I think my steps are

1) a scheduled job to generate a Excel (or could be a text file with an xls extention also)
2) save the file in the DNN folder

I believe I can manage the scheduled emailing through Onyakteck's Axon product which I have been using recently - have you seen it BTW, it is really powerful.

My question to the forum is, how can I schedule a job to generate text or xls files and save those files? 

I have not studied the Scheduler much, but I notice that is seems to use DLL's as scheduled tasks, will I have to build a DLL for this?  If so, will it work in a shared hosting environment?

thanks for any advice you can give me

Mark


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