Viewer And Report Progress Page

rbuser

Hello,

I have the Report Progress Page Working perfectly from the demo you posted,
however, whenever I click any of the buttons on the viewer, a blank page is
display. Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thank you,

Tracy McClarnon

nardmoseley

I cannot duplicate that behavior in my testing here.

As a test, try modifying the TWebModule1.ProcessRequest method so that it
does not ever display the progress page:

// if RequiresProgressPage(aWebRequest) then
// Result := GetProgressPage(aWebRequest)
// else
Result := rsWebTier1.ProcessWebRequest(aWebRequest);

Then run the rbWebDebug.exe and observe whether the viewer nav buttons work
properly.




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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Nard,

Thank you for the response. Do you have a document that describes what must
be sent to the WebTier via a URL? A list of URL parameters with allowed
values and descriptions would greatly help. Also, do you have a document for
the INI file WebTier can use?

Thank you,

Tracy McClarnon

nardmoseley

1. See article below. You can also run the webtier demo application and
observe the URL that are generated.

2. Set WebTier.IniSettings.Enabled to True and save the WebModule and close
the project. In the project directory there will be an rbWebTier.ini file
generated with the saved configuration settings from the TrsWebTier
component. You can open this file in notepad or the Delphi code editor. When
you deploy the webtier application you can place the rbWebTier.ini file in
the same directory as the web application .DLL.


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Tech Tips: How can I request that the webtier
execute a specified report?
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Question:
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Without using the Web ReportExplorer, how can I request that the webtier
execute a specified report?


Solution:
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The webtier processes requests for web content. These requests consists of

1. The URL for the webtier

example: http://127.0.0.1/rbWebPub/report.dll


2. A parameter specifying the content type.

example: content=viewer

{note: content=viewer, is used to request report viewer content.}


3. Additional parameters that are specific to the content request.

volume=Report Forms (the volume name)
Name=Basic\Biolife Table (the full path name to the report)


Use a web browser to access the webtier demo that displays the report
explorer.

Notice that when you place the mouse over a report in the report explorer
that the status bar in IE shows the url plus some params. That is the string
required to run the report on the web tier.

Example:
http://127.0.0.1/rbWebPub/report.dll?content=viewer&volume=Report
Forms&name=Basic\Biolife Table

So the parameters here are

content=viewer (type of content is report viewer)
volume=Report Forms (the volume name)
Name=Basic\Biolife Table (the full path name to the report)




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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com