Running a report from a form or the Object Designer

aztecconsulting

Is it possible to tell if a report is being called from a form or from the object designer? I want to fire some functionality if the user is running the report from a button on the form, but not if I am running it from the designer. I'm hoping to make the change to the report because this isn't a form we can easily modify so I am looking for a way to determine it in the report.

kine

If you do not want to modify the form, I think, it is not possible, only if the report is called from the form without request form. Than you can use the variable CurrReport.USEREQUESTFORM for detecting it. But if the request form is used when runned from the form, there is no difference...

But if you will change the form, and will call the report through variable, you can pass some flag through functions etc. See How To pass data into report...

kriki

Or if you have some singleinstance codeunit, you can put in it some code to create global variables.
Then in the form you set the global variable, in the report you test for it and then delete the global variable. This last in case you would then run the report from the object designer. If you didn't delete the global variable, it would still be there.

awarn

Add a global variable, and a function to the report.

Before you call it from a button, call the function and set the global variable.

//call in code
rReport.SetParameters(true);
rReport.runmodal;

//in report
function SetParameters(_fromForm: boolean)

GlobalCalledFromForm := _fromForm

OnPreReport

if GlobalCalledFromForm then begin
//do whatever
end;



-a

dstiegele

awarn wrote:

Add a global variable, and a function to the report.


//call in code
rReport.SetParameters(true);
rReport.runmodal;

-a

That's right!
But in this case: How can I suppress the upcoming filterdialog?
(As I would do it in RUNMODAL(....))

...sorry for activating this one year too late!

Thanks for your help!

Dirk

kriki

repTheReport.USEREQUESTFORM(FALSE);