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OnAfterDocumentPrintReady Event

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This article describes the syntax of the OnAfterDocumentPrintReady event and the attributes of the report payload.

Usage

Use the OnAfterDocumentSetupPrinters event to specify what happens when the user selects the Print action on a report request page. The OnAfterDocumentPrintReady event is used to send a report to a target extension printer. For more information about subscribing to this event, see Developing Printer Extensions Overview.

Publisher

Codeunit 44 ReportManagement.

Raised

When a user selects the print action on a report request page

Syntax

IntegrationEvent(false, false)]
local procedure OnAfterDocumentPrintReady(ObjectType: Option "Report","Page"; ObjectId: Integer; ObjectPayload: JsonObject; DocumentStream: InStream; var Success: Boolean)

Parameters

ObjectType

Type: Enum

The object to run. Currently only report is supported.

ObjectID

Type: Integer

The ID of the report object to be run.

ObjectPayload

Type: JsonObject

Instance of the report payload. For more information, see Report payload structure.

DocumentStream

Type: InStream

A stream object that contains a .pdf file of the report to be printed.

Success

Type: Boolean

Specifies whether the extension handled the print action successfully.

Report payload

The report payload contains metadata for the report object and a list of attributes that identifies that current invocation. The payload consists of several attributes and has the following structure.

{
    "filterviews":
    [
        {"name":"Header","tableid":112,"view":"VERSION(1) SORTING(Field3) WHERE(Field3=1(103027))"},
        {"name":"Line","tableid":113,"view":"VERSION(1) SORTING(Field3,Field4) WHERE(Field4=1(0..10000))"},
        {"name":"ShipmentLine","tableid":7190,"view":"VERSION(1) SORTING(Field1,Field2,Field3) WHERE(Field2=1(10000))"}
    ],
    "version":1,
    "objectname":"Standard Sales - Invoice",
    "objectid":1306,
    "documenttype":"application/pdf",
    "invokedby":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001",
    "invokeddatetime":"2020-01-17T15:33:52.48+01:00",
    "companyname":"CRONUS International Ltd.",
    "printername":"My Printer",
    "duplex":false,
    "color":false,
    "defaultcopies":1,
    "papertray":
    {
        "papersourcekind":257,
        "paperkind":0,
        "landscape":false,
        "units":0,
        "height":1268,
        "width":929
    },
    "intent":"Print",
    "layoutmodel": "Rdlc",
    "layoutname": "RDLCLayout",
    "layoutmimetype": "Application/ReportLayout/Rdlc",
    "layoutapplicationid": "00001111-aaaa-2222-bbbb-3333cccc4444",
    "reportrunid": "6a3742c1-65ef-44a6-af58-3ef4a902932b"
}

Attributes

objectname

Specifies the name of the object.

objectid

Specifies the ID of the object.

documenttype

Specifies the MIME type of the document. Currently only application/pdf is supported for printing, other intents can have types specific to the report layout model and selected output target type.

invokedby

Specifies the ID of the user who invoked the print action.

invokeddatetime

Specifies the date and time that the print action was invoked, for example, 2019-10-22T22:25:54.338+02:00. The value is the date and time on the client machine.

companyname

Specifies the Business Central company.

version

Specifies the version of the report payload. Currently, the only supported version for the payload is 1.

duplex

Specifies whether to use duplex (2-sided) printing. true specifies duplex printing; otherwise false.

Note

duplex is currently not used and ignored at runtime.

color

Specifies whether color printing is set. true specifies color printing; otherwise false.

Note

color is currently not used and ignored at runtime.

defaultcopies

Specifies the number of copies to print by default. The default is 1.

Note

defaultcopies is currently not used and ignored at runtime.

filterviews

Specifies views that are used on the document.

name

Specifies the name of data item that the filter view applies to.

tableid

Specifies the ID of the table for the view.

view

Specifies the name of the view.

papertray

Specifies the paper tray settings from the printer payload.

papersourcekind

Specifies a standard paper source for the paper tray. The value can be either the text representation (such as AutomaticFeed) or the corresponding number (such as 7).

paperkind

Specifies the paper size. The value can be either the text representation (such as A4) or the corresponding number (such as 9).

landscape

Specifies whether landscape orientation is used. true specifies landscape orientation; otherwise false.

units

Specifies the units of measurement for values in height and width attributes. Valid values include:

  • HI for hundredths of an inch (default value).
  • TI for thousandths of an inch.
  • IN for inches.
  • CM for centimeters.
  • MM for millimeters.
  • PC for picas.
  • PT for points.

height

Specifies the height of the paper. The values include positive integers up to 2,147,483,647.

width

Specifies the width of the paper. The values include positive integers up to 2,147,483,647.

intent

Specifies the intent of the current report invocation, which can be one of the following values.

  • None
  • Print
  • Preview
  • Save
  • Schedule
  • Download
  • Parameters

layoutmodel

Specifies the layout model selected for teh current report invocation, which can be one of the following values.

  • Rdlc
  • Word
  • Excel
  • Custom

layoutname

Specifies the layout name for the currently selected layout.

layoutmimetype

Specifies the layout mimetype for the currently selected layout. The built-in layout types are:

  • Application/ReportLayout/Rdlc
  • Application/ReportLayout/Word
  • Application/ReportLayout/Excel

layoutapplicationid

Specifies the ID of the application that provides the selected layout.

reportrunid

Specifies a unique ID of type Guid that identifies the current report invocation. This value can be used to correlate calls to report event that support json payloads.

Working With and Troubleshooting Payloads
Developing Printer Extensions Overview
Creating a Printer Extension
Events in AL
Publishing Events
Raising Events
Subscribing to Events