Create PDF of a classic report from RTC

denpar
denpar Member Posts: 80
edited 2015-01-16 in NAV Three Tier
Hi all,

I have a customer using the RTC client (NAV 2009 R2) with 32 Classic reports (no RDLC lay-out).

The customer wants the possibilty to save them as PDF, as far as I know the only option is to add the RDLC lay-outs for all reports! And that's a lot of work :(

I tried several things to use Bullzip and create a PDF in the RTC of a Classic lay-out without RDLC, but unfortunately without success....

Any advice on this issue would be appreciated!
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  • Luc_VanDyck
    Luc_VanDyck Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 3,633
    I have tried it as well before, without success either. The problem is that, when a classic report is started from RTC, a new session is created to run the classic client. As you don't have control over this session you can't determine when the report is finished executing.
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  • denpar
    denpar Member Posts: 80
    Thx Luc for your reaction... this is indeed the big problem!

    Still hoping that somebody has invented something brilliant... I really hate the RDLC lay-outs in 2009 :(
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  • lubost
    lubost Member Posts: 633
    Hi,

    I think that the best and the easiest solution is using PDF virtual printer e.g. PDFCreator.
  • denpar
    denpar Member Posts: 80
    Lubost,

    I don't think another PDF printer solution is the solution for this issue....
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  • TonyDuarte
    TonyDuarte Member Posts: 92
    On a few clients we have in nav 2009 R2 we are still working in classic environment only and to make reports in pdf we have a call to a codeunit that calls pdf creator to print the report and save in a specific folder.

    Don't know if it can be a solution for you...
  • denpar
    denpar Member Posts: 80
    Thanks for the replies, but I think I found my own solution....

    1. Make Bullzip PDF Printer the default printer for the Classic report (in this example 50080) without RDLC (printer selections)
    2. Add this code in Report - OnInitReport()
    BullZipPDF.Init;
BullZipPDF.LoadSettings;
BullZipPDF.SetValue('Output','c:\temp\temp.pdf'); //only example, better to use timestamp
BullZipPDF.SetValue('Showsettings', 'never');
BullZipPDF.SetValue('ShowPDF', 'no');
BullZipPDF.SetValue('ShowProgress', 'no');
BullZipPDF.SetValue('ShowProgressFinished', 'no');
BullZipPDF.SetValue('SuppressErrors', 'yes');
BullZipPDF.SetValue('ConfirmOverwrite', 'no');
BullZipPDF.WriteSettings(TRUE);

    3. Run the report from a page in the RTC:
    REPORT.RUN(50080,FALSE,FALSE,SalesInvHeader); //in my example one sales invoice header, not possible to print multiple

    4. File 'Temp.pdf' is created now, if needed you can rename it!
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