headless report generation

brianj774 · Post by **brianj774** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:48 pm

Hi,

I've been asked to look into some kind of automated reporting with this product.

What I'd like to be able to do is procedurally generate a document, and save it as a pdf. I'm pretty sure this cannot be done client side, but is it possible on server side ?

Post by **Vladimir** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:55 am

Hello,

You can use the following code to generate a PDF file on the server side:

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StiPdfExportSettings settings = new StiPdfExportSettings();
settings.PageRange = pageRange;
settings.ImageQuality = imageQuality;
.....

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();

StiPdfExportService export = new StiPdfExportService();
export.ExportPdf(report, stream, settings);

Thank you.

brianj774 · Post by **brianj774** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:46 pm

excellent, thanks.

Post by **Andrew** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:12 am

Hello,

As usually, we are happy to help you.

Thank you.

brianj774 · Post by **brianj774** » Wed May 16, 2012 3:15 pm

I am planning on implementing this idea as an internal webservice. The plan will be that the 'service' will take a parameter (say, an ID), and using it, populate a dataset. From there, I will Export the PDF, and return to the caller a success/fail code, or perhaps a file path, etc...

Can you suggest a 'best' design for this. I'm looking over the WebDemo files from 'Ultimate', and they appear to be page based. As I'm hoping to reduce this to a simple service, I would like to be able to do without a viewer object (StiWebViewer), but I'm not sure it can be done that way.

Is it possible to make this completely headless

Please advise. Thanks!

Post by **Vladimir** » Thu May 17, 2012 7:59 am

Hello,

WebViewer is not required to generate and export reports on the server side. You can use the following code to load and generate report:

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// Load report template
StiRpeort report = new StiReport();
report.Load(...);

// Set some report parameters
report["Param1"] = value;

// Render report
report.Render(false);

// Export report
StiPdfExportSettings settings = new StiPdfExportSettings();
settings.PageRange = pageRange;
settings.ImageQuality = imageQuality;
.....

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();

StiPdfExportService export = new StiPdfExportService();
export.ExportPdf(report, stream, settings);

Thank you.