printing from preview page

leugim

hi all! i need some help

i have a trouble with the preview page. my steps are the following: start navision, type user and password, open main menu, enter in sales & payables, orders and press print button. after typing filters, i press the preview button and the report ends ok. but still in preview page... i want to print this report by my printer, and i press the small button on the lower left corner of the window, or even the same button under File menu... a message appears: "This report cannot be printed from preview..."

does somebody knows where this message is launched? i want to be able to print sales and purchases reports from preview page (in purchases & payables also appears).

entering the object designer i run the same report and the message also appears, but i couldn't find any property or code to open the message i'm talking about...

ideas or clues will be well-received
many regards

RobertMo

sometimes this happens, but i never bothered with it... you can still run it again and print it without preview

Timo_Lässer

This message appears if "IF CurrReport.PREVIEW THEN [...]" exists somewhere in the C/AL code.

Edward_Bloomfield

Hi,

I believe this is because it is a report that updates records when it is printed - e.g. updating the "No. Printed" field in the Sales Invoice header table.

If you preview a report like this, then the data is not updated because it is only being previewed. If you then print from preview, this code is not run from preview, & the data is never updated (No. Printed is not incremented).

As a result, Navision does not let you!

leugim

hi all and thanks for your supply

the problem is not to arrange those reports, the problem is my final customer, because they find very unnoperative to preview a report and then close it to print again by the printer... they work hard and found Navision a very slow tool to work with... ops!

i talk with some other people about this question and they told me about updating the number of times a report is printed too, as edwar bloomfield did. one of them talk me about some codeunit between 300 and 399 (???) where the update is done each time an invoice report is printed by the printer. another friend exported all codeunits in text format and the text "This report cannot...." was looked for in an external text editor. the total number of hints was.... ZERO ( wow! :?: )

so, my final customer will have to accept this Navision's way to work, it's not a bug, is not an error, it's only an adaptation the customer don't want to accept :?

for all of you, thanks to be there giving your knowledge and your ideas. my best regards to all and each of you.

RobertMo

damn, that kind of customer again... :x

Timo_Lässer

leugim wrote:

[...]
another friend exported all codeunits in text format and the text "This report cannot...." was looked for in an external text editor. the total number of hints was.... ZERO ( wow! :?: ) [...]

You can't find this string because it comes from the fin.etx file.

You have to look for

IF CurrReport.PREVIEW THEN

This little piece of code blockes printing from preview.

kine

IF CurrReport.PREVIEW THEN
   Message('A')
else
  Message('B');

CurrentReport.Preview is the source of your problems. It is clear - if you press Preview - Message('A') is done. Than you press print but this code in this case is wrong because you PRINT... 8) to have consistent and true code, you must close report and run once again.