Grid button report not printing

[Mike Vance]

I am having problems getting a report to print from a grid button. I must be missing something. Please see attached and let me know if you can help.

Thanks

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Grid button report not printing

Hi Mike,

How's things?

First as this is a web question it would best be a asked in the Server section of this forum.

Second, when I viewed the grid through Live Preview and then selected Launch page in Browser (bottom left corner of viewer) the Page did get printed to screen.

So all is well and your grid does work.

I have made a small change to your grid buttons to filter the report on the row the button is clicked on. See attached.

[Mike Vance]

Re: Grid button report not printing

Hi Keith

Thanks very much for looking at this. I put it here because it's a desktop application grid problem.

I have tried your fix but only get the attached error message. Whether or not I answer Yes or No to the error message on pressing the button I get a blank window - no report appears in it.

I am using version 2659_3515 with Vista but have tried with the latest 2814_3519 version with Win7 on another computer without success. The grids in desktops apps often cause problems which sometimes go away when they are replaced. This one doesn't go away!

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Grid button report not printing

Hi Mike,

As there was no form I assumed it was a WAS.

Which also meant I could not test your grid on a form.

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: Grid button report not printing

MIke, I took a look. There are no forms, browses, or layouts in the database. Looks like a web app to me. If you're using the application server for an "intranet" your questions will get better exposure if you post to the application server forum, rather than to the "desktop" forum.

Keith, me, too.

[Mike Vance]

Re: Grid button report not printing

Hi Keith and Tom

Sorry about the confusion. I have been testing the print button from the Web Projects/grid edit/Working Preview sequence without opening the Application Server at all.

I have not called up the grid from a form as I assumed the working preview would load the report. Maybe that's where I'm going wrong so I'll try it from a form later.

Thank you both for your comments.

Mike

[Mike Vance]

Re: Grid button report not printing

Keith has spent time with me checking this out and Selwyn has also been very helpful in explaining the following.

There is no bug. It is simply not possible to use javascript buttons on grids for desktop applications due to the limitations explained in the link on the Working Preview window.

A button used to show a report layout only works if the Application Server is opened rather than Working Preview used in desktop apps.

[jdrake]

Re: Grid button report not printing

The "Working Preview" is an xDialog box with an activeX object that can interact with Internet Explorer.

There are a couple of options but what works for me so far is to make my own xDialog that has the grid but also includes a print button. Therefore I can do a report.preview() using xBasic like I would a regular page.

It can be a little challenging when you first make an xDialog then it becomes easier.

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Grid button report not printing

Hi Jay,

make my own xDialog that has the grid but also includes a print button

Could you please show the code that you created to do this.

TIA.

[jdrake]

Re: Grid button report not printing

1st method to print:
Here is a simple sample that doesn't have a print button but has a close button. You can easily add a print button if you look at how the close button works. The attached code is what I have on the onPush of a button on a menu.
Note: the code looks a little messy but its 98% Alpha generated.
Another Note: The code

title_var_name = "GridComponentInXdialog"+time("0h0ms3")

is very important or else it will crash if you try to open 2 xDialogs at once. Using this method they will have a unique name and not crash.

2nd Method to print:
Also the "Print" button in the screenshot is another method you can use to print the screen. Since this is really a webpage running inside Internet Explorer, you can call the javascript print command and have the user print the page just like they would print any webpage.

I just put this in the free form area above the grid.

<button onclick="javascript:window.print()" class="GlassBlueButton" style="CURSOR: pointer" id="Print_Button">Print Page</button>

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Grid button report not printing

Hi Jay,

Thanks for you idea. What Mike was after was to print a report from the row button in the grid. See thumbnail.

Can you make the xdialog work this way?

[Mike Vance]

Re: Grid button report not printing

Hi Jay

Sorry for the delay in acknowledging your kind input.

I may be wrong but I don't think I can use HTML code in the freeform area to work in a desktop app. I tried copying your code in and when I ran the working preview it simply showed the code as text above the grid.

It would be great if there is a way of producing a button in that way since sometimes I would like to preview a different report from a grid button, not just one which reports the grid filter records only.

Thanks. Mike

[jdrake]

Re: Grid button report not printing

You need to put the html under "source" in the freeform and not under WYSIWYG.

Also, this will only print what is on your screen already, it won't let you do a separate report.

[Mike Vance]

Re: Grid button report not printing

Yes it works perfectly when I put it in the Source!

Thanks very much for your help Jay. I think I can now adapt your code to what I want.

Mike