To print from the universal gui you have to add a small process flow. Use a Generate report action and store the generated report in a varbinary. Then you can write the file if needed to disk using the write file action. And print the file using the print action with the varbinary as input. https://docs.thinkwisesoftware.com/docs/sf/process_flows_connectors#generate-report Thank you Erwin, we indeed implemented something similar and we have it working now!
It turned out that setting the ReportContentLocale to ‘Dutch/NL’ did eventually work for our use case!
Hello Niels, Unfortunately the web GUI does not support your preferred situation. It will always open a new browser tab from which you will have to manually print the report. Since the web GUI is to be replaced by the Universal GUI and thus officially End of Life, development for this product has been halted. I understand this doesn't actually help you, but I hope it clarifies any possible confusion. Kind regards, Renée Sorry, with web gui I actually meant the universal gui. Does this also not work with the universal gui?
hi, I've ran into a simular problem. What you want to check is the following: local pc settings (check timezone and location) local pc keyboard setting (if set to US it can translate into mm/dd/yyyy) Browser timezone and location settings Browser keyboard settings (same as above, configuring this correctly will probably solve your issue) The report is generated in a subflow, so I think the local pc settings do not apply in this case?I found an extended property called ReportContentLocale which I think is supposed to set the locale of the report. I set it to ‘Dutch/NL’, but it hasn't solved the problem for me.
Hello, we have a report where we show some dates. In the report configuration I am forcing the "dd-MM-yyyy” format, and with SQL I am getting the dates in this format as well. However, the dates are still being displayed as "MM/dd/yyyy” on the report. Has anybody else encountered this and solved it? The "MM/dd/yyyy” is being displayed on the report after it has been generated. The preview in DevExpress is showing the correct date format.
Hi Niels, In the process action Email connector you have the Allow HTML input parameter. This will determine if the content is sent as HTML of not. Verify that is set to Yes. For the older SMTP connector it is turned off by default, but the same applies; set it to Yes. Hope this helps! Yess, thanks! Overlooked this button in the options...
Hi Niels, I'm unsure what you want to do with the file_path in the table. I guess you want to store the file data in a particular field so you could preview it in your application? That would require two fields, one for the File name (varchar), one for the File data (varbinary). File name needs to use a domain with control FILE_UPLOAD and a storage location set to type Database. File data will then need to be the storage column for the File name. In File name, you can write [reportname].[extension] and in the File data column you place the varbinary data. That should do it. Thanks. Issue was fixed by making the table column have control file_upload, and the process variable file_path into a file_upload domain as well.
Hi Niels, That is correct, the Add row process action is a User action and cannot be used in a System flow. To add a row, you can opt to use a Decision where you can use SQL code to insert a record into a table. The Decision requires a control procedure with code group Processes, and it being assigned to the correct process action. Hope this helps! Hi Mark, thank you for the assistance. I have done this, and am using a decision to add a row to my document table. This is done by storing the file_path (as a varbinary_max) in a process variable, and using that as input in my decision which inserts a row into the aforementioned table. The file path is, however, converted to a long string of Chinese characters. When I set the file_path variable as something different then a varbinary_max value, it doesn't generate the report at all. Do you have an idea of what is going on?
Hello Mark, do you know how to add a row in a system flow? I tried to use the add_row action but that doesn't allow me to run the process flow as a system flow.
Looks pretty good, however with New file it may not have created a new file if the file is already there. Maybe Overwrite file is a better choice. The file_data variable uses varbinary(max) I suppose? If that's also the case, we probably need to take a closer look at it. Can you create a ticket for it and attach a model.dat of the branch? Thanks! Hi, setting the file_data as varbinary(max) and converting it in my decision is what made it work. Thank you for your help!
As system flow, this should do the job just fine. As long as the input parameters for the Generate report actions are set up correctly and the output File data is pass to the Write file action, I don’t see why it wouldn't work. Does the Indicium log say anything? Maybe the Write file did not succeed. Lastly, which encoding are you using? With ANSI Latin1, I think it should work just fine. If you change anything after reading this reply, you may need to resync to IAM to place the changes of the model in IAM so the system flow uses these values. I am indeed using ANSI Latin1 for encoding. Input for the write_file action is as follows:output of the generate report action is as follows: All seems correct to me too.
Can you share the Process flow design? And you say you use it with the Windows GUI, is that correct? Yes, we are indeed using the windows gui for this. We have set it up as a system flow.
Hi Niels, Can you try a browser such as Chrome or another PDF viewer to see if that fixes it? Tried it with Chrome and Firefox. Both display a blank document.
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