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Emailing the PDF attachment in NAV 2018 AL language gives an error

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Posted on by Olister Rumao

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Hi,

I'm trying to send the Email with PDF file as an attachment in NAV 2018. I've used the following code

FileName:=FileManagement.ServerTempFileName('pdf');

REPORT.SAVEASPDF(50001,FileName,ContractsTable);

This code was automatically converted using TXT2AL utility. But it gives error in AL. Please guide.

Thanks

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Olister Rumao 3,959 on at

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RE: Emailing the PDF attachment in NAV 2018 AL language gives an error

I've tried this and posted a blog.

www.cloudfronts.com/workaround-to-report-saveaspdf-in-nav-2018
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Andrey Baludin 3,941 on at

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RE: Emailing the PDF attachment in NAV 2018 AL language gives an error

There is AddAttacmentStream function in SMTP codeunit (400), use it instead of AddAttachment.
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RE: Emailing the PDF attachment in NAV 2018 AL language gives an error

So what you say is I've to create an Instream/Outstream which will take report (Temporary as PDF) and pass this stream to SMTP.AddAttachment method?
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Andrey Baludin 3,941 on at

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RE: Emailing the PDF attachment in NAV 2018 AL language gives an error

Microsoft docs tells next thing:

Code that relies on temporary files must be rewritten to rely on InStream and OutStream types.

Code that relies on permanent files must be rewritten to use another form of permanent storage.

So, we can forget about FileManagement.ServerTempFileName in AL.

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