Bug Producing HTML Reports

Question

Hi, I have just noticed a small bug.  If you run a report such as a backup running configs and check the "don't email me unless something changes" option, the HTML version of the report stored on disk is also not updated but the text version is.

Unless someone begs to differ, my expectation is that the text and html reports are produced every run but the "don't email" option only affects whether the report is sent out as an email.

Cheers

David

DavidRickard · Answer

Either that, or delete the HTML files once the email has been sent?  Or maybe just write the HTML files to a temp directory rather than the reports one?  Any of those would be fine.

Cheers

Spartacus · Answer

Hi David,

Yep, that makes sense.

I suppose we could look at maybe deleting old files report files at the start of an activity run if the 'Overwrite existing report file' option has been selected.

Would that seem more logical?  If so, I'll add it as a feature request.

Steve

DavidRickard · Answer

OK what you say helps me see what is happening: My .txt activity reports go into ...\reports\  as you describe, every time the activity runs regardless of whether there is a change.  The configs, diff reports and so on all get filed away in group-specific directories.  I don't get a text version of the diff report because I have unchecked that box, but the HTML diff report is saved in the correct location.

However when something changes, I also get an HTML version of the activity report in ...\reports\ which is presumably because it has to create this to send it in an email but that file gets left there alongside the txt version of the activity report so it's confusing if you are browsing through the directory when there are aparrently two activity reports from different dates.

Does that make sense?

David