Create PDF of a classic report (without RDLC) from RTC

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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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Natalie Karolak - t... 1,955 on at

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Using a PDF printer is the correct solution for reports without RDLC layout.

I don't know what exactly you have tried before, but here are some inspirations:

How to save Navision Reports as PDF

Save NAV Reports to PDF

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Hi Dennis,

I did it for some projects with pdf creator. It's a free tool, that comes with a dll that can be used from NAV. With a few lines of code, I added a 'send as pdf' option to some screens.

If you don't need the send as pdf, you don't even need to program. PDF Creator is an extra printer which gives options like save, view, email, ...

kr,

Francis

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Mohana Yadav 61,005 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Please check below blog and forum post

saurav-nav.blogspot.in/.../navision-classic-save-report-in-pdf.html

http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18331&start=255

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@Natalie:

From the RTC client I can normally use SAVEASPDF. But this post is about saving Classic reports without RDLC from the RTC client....

I know both links you sent but there is no solution for this problem!

Thx anyway!!

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Francis,

I know the dll of PDF Creator (and BullZip), but you can't use this in a RTC environment with Classic reports without a RDLC!

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Mohana Yadav 61,005 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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[quote user="Dennis Pardaan"] from the RTC client....[/quote]

OK.

I missed this point.

I don't think there is a way without rdlc

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@Mohana:

I'm afraid you're right...

Still hoping that somebody has invented something brilliant...

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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);[/code]

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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mmv 11,471 on at

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Hi,

So, does the above solution work for you?

Please verify the solution.

Best Regards,

MMV

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