Webtier Viewer Frame Print, Excel and PDF buttons

rbuser

1. Now that Report Builder has the ability to export to Excel and PDF
natively on version 12 (great work!), is it possible to customize the
Webtier Viewer Frame to include Excel and PDF buttons without the use of 3rd
party software?

2. The property WebTier.ViewerSettings.ToolbasOptions.tbPrint = True, but
yet I do not see any print button on the Webtier Viewer Frame. Any idea what
I am missing?

Thanks

nardmoseley

I did not check all of the demos. But at the top of the ISAPI demo you will
find that the RB PDF export is included by default.

{$DEFINE DEFAULT} {add/remove an 'x' to enable/disable RB's Default PDF
support}
{x$DEFINE WALER} {remove the 'x' to enable Waler PDF support}
{x$DEFINE PRAGNAAN} {remove the 'x' to enable Pragnaan PDF support}

uses

{$IFDEF DEFAULT}
rsWebAdapterPDF,
{$ENDIF}

{$IFDEF WALER}
rsWebAdapterPDFWaler,
{$ENDIF}

{$IFDEF PRAGNAAN}
rsWebAdapterPDFPragnaan,
{$ENDIF}


There is an example of adding an XLS button installed to RBServer
Demos\WebTier\Custom Viewer. The example needs to be updated to support the
RB XLS export, we will do this for RB 12.01. Eventually it would be nice to
have the webtier.ViewerSettings.ToolbarOptions include an option for XLS.





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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Adding the rsWebAdapterPDF to the uses clause worked. The print button now
displays on the viewer and I am able to go straight to the PDF view by
replacing the parameter content=viewer with content=PDF on the URL



I agree with you that adding the XLS option to the ToolbarOptions would be
really nice. I think that the Report's 'Print to File' option must be set to
true as well in order for the viewer's XLS button to be visible. (Pardon my
ignorance if this is already so when using the pragnaan plug-in.)


Thanks
Temoc