Classic Report using a Codeunit Web Service

bbender · 2010-04-19

Is there a way to print a report via a Codeunit Web Service?
I saw the sample where it takes a Reporting Service Report and save as PDF, but we want to actually print the report out.

Thanks,
Bruce Bender

kine · 2010-04-21

And how the web service could know on which printer you want to print it? :-)

Did you tried it? Just instead the saving it as PDF, try to print it... it is easy test...

jreynolds · 2010-04-21

Printing definitely does not work form a web service.

SAVEASPDF will work but only if the RDLC has been defined; this does not work for rendering with the classic client.

I use SAVEASPDF and then a command line tool to print the PDF (which can executed with the RUN method of Windows Script Host).

bbender · 2010-04-21

We set the report not to use request form and that it would use the system printer.
or we were going to set the Report in Printer Selection to go to a specific printer.

We tried the first way and in the App that calls the Web Service, it comes back with an error.
I could give exact error, but the guy that the software is on, is not in yet.

This is why I posted something, we've tried it and it did not work.
We were wondering if their is a work around or a bug with Web Services.

This is NAV 2009 SP1, so it has the latest changes to the Web Services...

Thanks,
Bruce

bbender · 2010-04-21

Which command line do you use to print the PDF?

I think the report is setup as a RDLC report.

Thanks,
Bruce

jreynolds · 2010-04-22

bbender wrote:

Which command line do you use to print the PDF?

Just Google "print pdf command line" and you will get some choices.

Classic Report using a Codeunit Web Service

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