Have you ever had a report that wasn't generated in PeopleSoft but you wanted to put it in the report repository so that your PeopleSoft users could see it with their other reports?  Or have you ever wanted a single SQR to generate multiple reports, with different security for each?  Well, in PeopleTools 8.4x or later it's as easy as using the delivered POSTRPT_DMN.

POSTRPT_DMN is an app enging program that watches for XML files in a particular directory.  If it finds one, it will parse the XML parameters to determine the directory where the report file(s) are stored, the report's security, title, and other important info.  Then it'll use the PostReport PeopleCode class object to post the report to the report repository.

So there are two steps to setting making this work:  1) Configuring the POSTRPT_DMN and set it to run on a regular basis; and 2) Stage your report on the process scheduler server and create the XML file in the directory that POSTRPT_DMN is watching.

Here's how it's done: