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Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

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  • Steve Workings
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    Yes Selwyn, I've done that many times. But the problem, I think, is that I only have an .ALB file in my development directory. I do not have an .ALM or .ALX. I don't know how this could be, and still have the report stored and behaving correctly. Maybe things have changed since "the olden days"?

    I was also wondering if there's a place where the publishing history cache is stored where I might see (and fix) what it's storing.

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  • Selwyn Rabins
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    have you tried to clear your publishing history cache?

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  • Steve Workings
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    Yes, made the report dirty and saved. It's based on a SQL Datasource, so it has to be stored there. I've created another report with SQL Datasource too. Still, no .alb or .alx. Re-creating this particular report isn't a very attractive option, and should not be necessary, and if my other attempts to use the dictionary aren't producing these files, I don't know that this would either.

    Update: I exported the report to an .a5pkg. Deleted it. Ran database compact. Re-imported the report. Ran database compact. Still don't have those files.

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  • Karaiskakis
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    Have you tried making the report 'dirty' and save and republish ?
    Or try to rebuild the report from the beginning ( I did it once and worked for me)

    maybe in this way the missing files will be re-created...

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  • Steve Workings
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    Well now it got more interesting.

    I had thought about a manual publishing, but dismissed it for now. So I thought I'd go try that, but I have now found that there is no .alx or .alm. And yet I do have my report and a few functions working just fine locally. I've never seen this before, and while I must be missing something, I sure don't know what.

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  • Karaiskakis
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    Steve, have you tried manual FTP the files to the server?

    I had the same problem previously - not with V11 - and i was doing just this to fix this kind of problem.

    Be sure to publish your files in the right directory.

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  • Steve Workings
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    Back to this again. No matter what I do, I cannot get Alpha to publish the .alb, .alx and .alm to this server/project. It's working on other projects correctly.

    To try to fix this, I've tried all sorts of things including:

    - Making sure I uncheck the Publish New or Modified Files Only and I clear the publishing history
    - I've edited and saved the report in hopes that Alpha would see these as updated files.
    - I've added, then later deleted, another junk report with hopes of triggering the uploads.
    - Added and edited existing functions.
    - Run Database Compact

    But in the list of files to publish, only the .alb is showing up -- not the other two, so , no report.

    Is the list of previously-published files something I can find and edit maybe to try to force this?

    Or, any other ideas?





    Originally posted by Selwyn Rabins View Post
    The error message indicates that the data dictionary (the .alb) file that was published to your webroot does not have the definition for the 'quote' report in it.

    It is possible that you added this report after your initial reports, but forgot to republish the .alb, .alm and .alx files for the data dictionary where all sql reports are stored.

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  • Karaiskakis
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    The problem with PDF printing is now solved!!

    Solved by Clive - Zebrahost!! where I have my Hyper-V server running. Thank you Clive!!

    THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ALPHA5 OR THE CODE CREATED BY ALPHA5 V11.

    THE PROBLEM IS CREATED WHEN THE APPLICATION SERVER IS RUNNING UNDER -ALWAYS UP ... (Thus restarting the Application Server when the system goes down automatically)

    IF YOU USE ALWAYS UP YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR ADMINISTRATIVE LOG-IN CREDENTIALS ...

    that was what created the system to fail !!!!

    Thank to Clive - Zebrahost, this is solved.

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  • Selwyn Rabins
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    The error message indicates that the data dictionary (the .alb) file that was published to your webroot does not have the definition for the 'quote' report in it.

    It is possible that you added this report after your initial reports, but forgot to republish the .alb, .alm and .alx files for the data dictionary where all sql reports are stored.

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  • Bill Griffin
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    Steve,

    I had this issue a couple of builds ago, but it went away and has not come back. It was consistently failing on 2 win 7 64 bit systems till the update with the new amyuni driver, so I thought that fixed the problem. I also did update my Acrobat Pro X at the same time. I have had some weird things related to Acrobat lately. Try uninstalling Acrobat and installing foxit reader

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  • Steve Workings
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    I'm not having any success either. I notice the error message is kind of odd -- what I produce below is verbatim copy. The Quote part has me wondering.

    Report did not print. Error reported was:


    Layout name: Quote@C:\A5webroot\MYFOLDERHERE\db.alb
    Layout type: report

    SQLReporting 6 - DataSource record for Layout not found.

    Tried everything below. Anyone else found a solution?

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  • Editor
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    Read that a few time. No I am on the remote server and still no printing.

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  • Bill Griffin
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    FYI - XPS printing does not work in Working Preview, just Live preview or from the server.

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  • Editor
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    Thanks for clarifying. Yes it's selected. So having said that, the HTML, Excel and TXT exports quit working too.
    I 'm going to reinstall the XPS next, just for a sanity check.

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  • rnoguera
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    Re: Problem Printing PDF reports after new installation of V11

    Hi David,

    The Microsoft XPS printing (or Amyuni) has NO relation to Excel, TXT or HTML export. Only with PDF printing.

    Are you sure you have activated "Use Microsoft XPS" in Project Properties > PDF Printing Options ?

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