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    Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

    Accessing Reports off of Grid from PC works fine. Brings up report and then gives option to print in PDF, etc formats. Try the same when accessing report from mobile tablet and it just says report in process, but never displays report. Any suggestions? Not a big deal, but would nice to have it. Just accessing and updating data on mobile device is sufficient.
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    Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

    The only browser that seems to do what you want is firefox mobile. It prompts you for a download and then you can view it with your pdf viewer.
    Chad Brown

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      Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

      Haven't tried on an Android device, but I am able to view, save to iBooks, email, and wirelessy print the generated PDF reports from any and all of my iOS devices

      The "trick" is to have them open in a new browser window. I used the supplied sample Simple Contact Manager - Contact List as a guide to figure out how to do it. If I get some time later today, I'll pop up a quick how-to.
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        Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

        I would be very interested in the "how to". I can view my pdf termite report on my iPad, but I would like to open it in an App such as PDF Splicer or TypeOnPdf and be able to email it. I finally figured out how to scroll it on my iPad. I currently have it opening in a DIV. How do you have it open in a new browser window?

        Ken

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          #5
          Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

          Did this how to ever happen? Looking for how to do this using Alpha Anywhere as there is no option to open a report in a "browser window" just in a window (which is normally just a modal-popup and doesn't render well on a phone). Is there a way to open a report in a panel? I wouldn't mind using this functionality but when I have tried the report never seems to load?

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            #6
            Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

            Will appreciate if you could share with us how you do it.

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              #7
              Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

              Originally posted by phan9413 View Post
              Will appreciate if you could share with us how you do it.

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                #8
                Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

                Load FireFox as browser on Android device. Do not think you can do that on iPhone or iPad, but there may be a look alike you can use.

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                  #9
                  Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

                  I just found the solution by using xbasic funtion to display pdf in IPhone and Ipad for mobile. Thanks

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                    Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

                    Originally posted by phan9413 View Post
                    I just found the solution by using xbasic funtion to display pdf in IPhone and Ipad for mobile. Thanks

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                      #11
                      Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

                      What function did you find?

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                        #12
                        Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

                        Originally posted by swksys View Post
                        What function did you find?

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                          Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

                          Instead of using “Window” as a target use XBasic & then define this xbasic function:

                          function openpdf as c (e as p)
                          openpdf = "window.open('"+Session.FormatFileDataURL(e.fileSessionkey) + "','_blank')"
                          end function

                          In the page just create a <div id="111"></div>

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                            Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

                            I was O.K. until I got to "In the page just create a <div id="111"></div>"

                            I am trying to work with your suggested xbasic function: openpdf. Pardon my ignorance, but after that, "In the page just create a <div id="111"></div>"" Where's "the page" you are referring to? I'm using Alpha Anywhere 2.0 now.

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                              Re: Displaying Reports on Mobile Device

                              In the page just create a <div id="111"></div> means just create a div in the a5w page that are working on now. You must go to the source to create, do not use WYSIWYG. It is just a name for the div, you can use <div id="ZZZ"></div> or any other name, but make sure you reference the same in the properties settings so that Alpha can find the div name.

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