In some cases, you wish to repeat the same analysis in a regular base, e.g. collecting some information about the current state of your business (let it be manufacturing information, customer data, bank transfers or stock market changes), do some analysis every morning and use this information in many ways (display it on your homepage and reuse it in your data management systems and so on). In this case, AutoExporter Module is the tool you need.

The first step is to make a running DataScope program to refresh its data table (executing the import with the same parameters from a modified database, recalculating all columns created in the projects, evaluating models, refreshing the charts). This can be done either manually (issuing the Refresh or Reimport command), by sending a script command from an independent application (like the company's own data management system) or automatically by scheduling data refresh in DataScope for specified time intervals.

You can specify what type of export you wish to execute on these events. DataScope can export its data into all common ways: into a database using ODBC connection, text file (with the common formatting options), XML (the common Web database format). A project can also be "exported" to another DataScope project file for archiving or further analysis, and the project reslts can be exported to HTML format.

The HTML export is highly customizable. You can export into HTML pages or into frames of existing pages; the whole export can go into the same file or each chart can be exproted into a separate page that are linked to thumbnail images on the index page. Additional project information can be included to the main page, chart details (notes, legends) attached to the chart pages. The outlook of the exported pages (heading and text appearance, background, etc.) is also customizable and thus can perfectly fit to your hamepage. Charts maintain DataScope "tooltip" functionality: if you leave the mouse pointer over a data item for a whihle, a small window with details on that item is displayed by embedded JavaScript.

An extra feature of HTML export is that DataScope contains a mini web server. This means that if you don't want to modify your company homepage but want to share your results with your colleagues over the intranet, you can turn your own desktop computer to a web server, and if others open it in their browsers, they can see your current HTML export.

You can modify specific settings for these exports independently, and also specify what kind of data refresh should trigger the export to be executed (scheduled or manual data refresh or reimport).
In all cases, you have the option to have DataScope launch an external post-processing application. This may be a program that informs the company data warehouse that some information has changed, an external analysis program, message sending that new information is available, distributing files to new locations.
After you have specified your settings, you can leave DataScope running unattended on your machine or on a server, it will keep all needed information up to date.

AutoExporter Module Features

Unattended DataScope keeps your analysis up-to-date
Scheduled regular data updates
Triggered updates from external applications
Data export to databases through ODBC, text and standard XML format
DataScope project file export for archiving or comparison analysis
Highly customizable HTML outlook, exports to HTML pages or frames, maintained tooltip functionality
Built-in mini web server