Keep preview of the report after print / export

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• gordk St.Catherines On. Canada.

  November 2013 edited 4:05PM

  is your custom preview form modal
• gpi

  November 2013 edited 4:05PM

  Do you use frxPreview1.Print or frxReport1.PreviewPages.Print?
• dide2000

  November 2013 edited 4:05PM

  gordk wrote: »

  is your custom preview form modal

  No, it's embedded in a normal form
• dide2000

  November 2013 edited 4:05PM

  gpi wrote: »

  Do you use frxPreview1.Print or frxReport1.PreviewPages.Print?

  I tried both now without any difference
• dide2000

  November 2013 edited 4:05PM

  Hi all
  
  The 'trick' ( or design ) is to use the print / export functions on the preview component. Not on the report component.
  Another thing I noticed is that that if you assign a preview component, then the report.preparereport already shows the content in the preview and
  no extra report.showpreparedreport is required.
  Thanks for your responses
  
  regards
  
  PS Hope I never have to do a report migration again....Fast reports : please stay alive
• gpi

  November 2013 edited 4:05PM

  wrote:

  The 'trick' ( or design ) is to use the print / export functions on the preview component

  But you tell

  wrote:

  I tried both now without any difference

  What is right?
• dide2000

  November 2013 edited 4:05PM

  gpi wrote: »

  gpi wrote: »

  The 'trick' ( or design ) is to use the print / export functions on the preview component

  But you tell

  gpi wrote: »

  I tried both now without any difference

  What is right?

  You are right, sorry you for the confusion. I didn't see the difference in the answer . I thought you answered frxreport.print and frxreport.previewpages.print....
  So that doesn't make a difference.
  Using frxpreview.print is what is required
  
  Thanks.
• d4rkn3z

  November 2013 edited 4:05PM

  dide2000 wrote: »

  dide2000 wrote: »

  dide2000 wrote: »

  The 'trick' ( or design ) is to use the print / export functions on the preview component

  But you tell

  dide2000 wrote: »

  I tried both now without any difference

  What is right?

  You are right, sorry you for the confusion. I didn't see the difference in the answer . I thought you answered frxreport.print and frxreport.previewpages.print....
  So that doesn't make a difference.
  Using frxpreview.print is what is required
  
  Thanks.

  
  Question: The report is lost from preview (TfrxPreview) after exporting the report frxReport1.Export(frxPDFExport1). What should be done ?
  Answer:
  
  Do this:

  frxPreview1.Lock;
  frxReport1.Export(frxPDFExport1);
  frxPreview1.UnLock;
  

  
  Or this :

  frxPreview1.Export(frxPDFExport1);