Save a Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 report to a PDF file (First Part)

The following code saves an Axapta report to a PDF file. This is the first article of 3. The next article will show how to save the file into a network share and pass a Sales Order dynamically, and the last part will be about attaching the PDF to an Outlook instance and create a dynamic subject. So, the titles of the three articles will be the same foe exception of the text in parenthesis.

In my case, I'm having a lot of problems saving the file to a network file and then to attach it to Outlook. The code below saves the report to a local palce in your computer.

static void Job10(Args _args)

{

   custConfirmJour     custInvoiceJour;

  SalesFormLetter     salesFormLetter = SalesFormLetter::construct(DocumentStatus::Confirmation,  false);

   PrintJobSettings    printJobSettings = new PrintJobSettings();

   Args                args = new Args();

   boolean             prompt = false;

   boolean             printIt = true;

   ;

    printJobSettings.setTarget(PrintMedium::File);

    printJobSettings.format(PrintFormat::PDF);

    printJobSettings.fileName(@'c:\temp\myfile2.pdf');

  

   salesFormLetter.updatePrinterSettingsFormLetter(printJobSettings.packPrintJobSettings());

   select firstOnly custInvoiceJour

       where custInvoiceJour.salesid == '18-062467';

   args.record(custInvoiceJour);

   args.caller(salesFormLetter);

   new MenuFunction(menuitemoutputstr(SalesConfirmation), MenuItemType::Output).run(args);

}