Export without user intervention
Registered FR 2.51, D5, WinXP
We can have an on-screen preview of a report. With the export components we are also able to save them in various formats. There are, however, a number of steps in order to achieve that, selecting the save format, entering a name for the exported documents, etc. I want to automate that as I want to provide a facility where customers statements can be e-mailed as an attachment and it would be somewhat stupid asking for a format and a name for every document (which can easily be generated as account code plus date). With the standard components, as well as the Pragnaan export ones, this seems to be impossible to achieve. Any ideas other than writing some probably rather complicate code, which takes over after the preview? I want to see the preview to verify that the sent stuff looks allright.
We can have an on-screen preview of a report. With the export components we are also able to save them in various formats. There are, however, a number of steps in order to achieve that, selecting the save format, entering a name for the exported documents, etc. I want to automate that as I want to provide a facility where customers statements can be e-mailed as an attachment and it would be somewhat stupid asking for a format and a name for every document (which can easily be generated as account code plus date). With the standard components, as well as the Pragnaan export ones, this seems to be impossible to achieve. Any ideas other than writing some probably rather complicate code, which takes over after the preview? I want to see the preview to verify that the sent stuff looks allright.
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