Select different printers for report

Christian_Buehl

Does anyone know, how to manipulate the target printer.
The printerselection allows only to set alway the same printer for a report.
I want to choose between a pdf-printer and the regular printer.
As the printer is set in codeunit 1 there should be a way to select the printer dynamic (controlled by software).

Does anyone know how ?

Christian_Buehl

As I think someone else is interested in a solution for this - I found a small (litttle bit dirty :P ) workaround for my problem, after I analyzed the ne-printer solution from BGI:
I insert a new record into the printerselection, print the record and remove it after the record was printed.

PrinterSelection | Record | table 78
printer | record | table 2000000039 
reporitid | Integer | number of report to print
PDFPrintername | text 100 | Name of the Printer without ",NEx"
--

printer.SETFILTER(Name,PDFPrintername);
IF NOT printer.FIND('-') THEN 
   ERROR('Printer %1 is not available\Please install first!', PDFPrintername);

// First check if printer exist and delete if there is a preselection
IF PrinterSelection.GET(USERID, reportid) THEN PrinterSelection.DELETE;
PrinterSelection.INIT;
PrinterSelection."Report ID" := reportid;
PrinterSelection."UserID" := USERID;
PrinterSelection.Printername := STRSUBSTNO('%1,%2',printer.Name,printer.device);
PrinterSelection.INSERT;
printdata.RESET;
printdata.SETFILTER(printdata."Nr.",Rec."Nr.");
REPORT.RUNMODAL(REPORT::Einkaufsbestellung ,FALSE,FALSE, printdata);
PrinterSelection.DELETE;  

vandang

Thanks for your code, it helped me much