How to launch a SSRS report (with some parameters) from AX 2009

Hi folks!

I will show you how to create a CommandButton in a form able to launh a SSRS report in Report Viewer from AX 2009 with parameter passing.

Picture yourself that we have a SSRS report with a parameter called "test", and this parameter must be taken from the datasource table of the form.

All you have to do is create a CommandButton control in your form and override the "clicked" method with this code:

void clicked()
{
    //declare the parameter
    str          _test;
    ;

    //assign to the parameter the value of the datasource field
    _test      = YourTableName.YourFieldName;
    infoLog.urlLookup(
    strfmt("http://<yourServername>/<yourReportWebServiceName>/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/<yourReportName>&rs:Command=Render&<Test>=%1",_test));

    super();
}

This command will open your browser and automatically launch the report with the specified parameter.

Sometimes I noticed visualization problems with browser different from Internet Explorer.
If Internet Explorer isn't the default browser, just change the command "infolog.urlLookup()" with:

WinAPI::shellExecute("iexplore.exe",strfmt("http://<yourServername>/<yourReportWebServiceName>/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/<yourReportName>&rs:Command=Render&<Test>=%1",_test),"","",1);

That's all!

How to send a report via email from AX 2009

Hi all!

Today I want to show you how to send a custom report via email from AX (it works with an AX client installation and it's tested for Microsoft Outlook and Novell GroupWise).

In AX there is a class that allows you to do this: "SysINetMail".

Here's the code:

void printPDFMail()
{
    SysINetMail     SysINetMail;
    str             FileName;
    str             user;
    str             Body;
    str             Subject;
    str             cc1;
    str             mailAddressFrom;
    str             mailAddressTo;
    UserInfo        userInfo;
    SysINetMail mail = new SysINetMail();
    ;

    select firstonly userInfo where userInfo.id==curUserId(); {
    user= userInfo.networkAlias; }

    FileName = strfmt('C:\\Users\\%1\\Desktop\\AXReportName.pdf',user);

    reportRun.printJobSettings().setTarget(PrintMedium::File);
    reportRun.printJobSettings().format(PrintFormat::PDF);
    reportRun.printJobSettings().fileName(FileName);
    reportRun.run();

    //assign the values ​​of sender, recipient, subject and message body
    Subject     = 'Insert here the email subject';
    Body        = 'Insert here the email body';
    cc1         = 'example@example.com';

    //assign the values ​​to send email
    mailAddressFrom     = SysUserInfo::find(curUserId()).Email;
    mailAddressTo       = email@addresstosend.com
   
    //Send Mail
    mail.sendMailAttach(mailAddressTo,cc1,Subject,Body,false,FileName);
   
    //delete the temporary pdf file
    winAPI::deleteFile(FileName);


    //info("Email sent.");
}

I have included this method in a class that creates the report to be sent, but if you want to use it as a job, you have to use "Args" function to pass the name of the report to be printed.