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Is there a way to select the destination printer of a report programatically when calling a report run?
In this case user and report Id are not enough, the destination printer is chosen depending on other criteria like customer No. and country, so we need to choose the printer from code.
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Thanks guys! Interesting solutions all three. I have to check with my team what approach we shall use.
Just let me comment, for NAV 2015 there seems to be a standard solution. We have the REPORT.PRINT function, that takes the PrinterName parameter:
REPORT.PRINT(Number, Parameters[,PrinterName][, RecordRef])
It would be nice to have this for NAV 2013 R2 :(
Hi
The way I've done this in the past is to have two copies of the same report, say 50000 and 50001. Then use standard NAV Printer selections to define which printer is used and modified NAV to chose the correct report based on your criteria.
Small downside is that you use two report objects but that normally is not a big issue. Also, you have to remember to copy any changes (or actually just the whole report) made to one report to the other.
Hope this helps!
Cheers
Chris
One possible solution i can think of is to change the default printer programmatically using powershell and excecute that powershell script in the NAV Code.
How to change default printer
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff731009.aspx
How to execute Powershell from NAV
http://www.waldo.be/2014/12/17/running-powershell-from-nav/
If you don't want to use powershell i think you can also use windows script or .net
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