Help with on demand V7.8 reports

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I am using V7.8.2 and need help with the script function system.report.executeAndDistribute().

Customer wants to select query parameters for reports, then print to a PDF. I can create the PDF from help examples, just don’t know how to pass custom parameters to the report to reflect the selected query parameters

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Pass the report’s named parameters using their names in a Python dictionary, see this link for an example of the syntax you’d need:

docs.inductiveautomation.com/di … cuteReport

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[quote=“PGriffith”]Pass the report’s named parameters using their names in a Python dictionary, see this link for an example of the syntax you’d need:

docs.inductiveautomation.com/di … cuteReport[/quote]

Thanks,
saw that , was hoping there would be an easier way.

What is missing from report viewer is the ability to print.

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Actually - the functionality is there, just not documented as well as it could be. If you right-click a report viewer component in Preview Mode, or while in a client, you can use the Print option in the dropdown.

You can call this from scripting with something like this (in an example button’s actionPerformed scripting hook):

system.gui.getSibling(event, 'Report Viewer').print()
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[quote=“PGriffith”]Actually - the functionality is there, just not documented as well as it could be. If you right-click a report viewer component in Preview Mode, or while in a client, you can use the Print option in the dropdown.

You can call this from scripting with something like this (in an example button’s actionPerformed scripting hook):

system.gui.getSibling(event, 'Report Viewer').print()

Perfect,

that is exactly what I was looking for, thanks