open pdf from web service

Belias · 2010-10-08

hi everyone, i'm moving my first steps in creating pages and codeunit web services, and i've done this little function, that creates the pdf of the purchase report.

fntprint(pTBPurchHead : Record "Purchase Header")

TXTFileName := 'C:\pdftest\';
TXTFileName += 'test.pdf';
REPORT.SAVEASPDF(402,TXTFileName,pTBPurchHead);

HYPERLINK(TXTFileName);

as you can see, it's really raw code, but it works like a charm in my little winform...the problem is that the hyperlink function does not work...why?
thanks in advance
P.S.: the HYPERLINK obviously work when called from an action in the page. it's just the webservice that doesn't work

kine · 2010-10-08

SAVEASPDF - saving on the service tier server
HYPELINK - running on the client...

If you have service tier on different server than client, you cannot do that... ;-)

Belias · 2010-10-08

kine wrote:

SAVEASPDF - saving on the service tier server
HYPELINK - running on the client...

If you have service tier on different server than client, you cannot do that... ;-)

you're right and i know it...i should have said that i'm testing on my own pc, which is service, server and client...

Savatage · 2010-10-08

Why do you have both listed as TXTFile Name?

TXTFileName := 'C:\pdftest\';
TXTFileName += 'test.pdf';

Shouldn't the first one be TXTFilePath? Or is that where the += comes in?

Belias · 2010-10-08

Savatage wrote:

Why do you have both listed as TXTFile Name?

TXTFileName := 'C:\pdftest\';
TXTFileName += 'test.pdf';

Shouldn't the first one be TXTFilePath? Or is that where the += comes in?

don't care about it...it's just some copy/pasted code from a blog and then modified for my cruel intentions

...well, reviewing the code...it has nothing to do with the original code, i copied just the method of extending the page webservice through codeunit...
as i said, it's just raw code to work a bit with web services...do you like it more if i write this?

TXTFileName := 'C:\pdftest\test.pdf';
REPORT.SAVEASPDF(402,TXTFileName,pTBPurchHead);

HYPERLINK(TXTFileName);

here's the blog if you want to take a look to a nice trick, but it's Off Topic...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/freddyk/archive/2009/11/17/extending-page-web-services-and-creating-a-sales-order-again.aspx

Belias · 2010-10-12

well...i solved it with these lines of C# code...

String filename = String.Format("{0:d}",service.Fntprint(mypurchorder.Key));  
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(filename);

fntprint is a nav function that runs the report as pdf and returns a text variable with the name of the created file
"{0:d}" is..........i don't know, i just copied it from somewhere... :whistle: :whistle:
P.S.: don't take this solution as a good example, because i don't know C#...there are probably better ways to solve this, but it works for my testing purposes

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