Ax 2012: Pass printer settings from class dialog to SSRS report

For one project I needed to create standard runnable class which calls SSRS report in a while loop. The question was how to work with the printer/destination settings.

Solution: 

1. Create your runnable class "YourController" from which you will control calls of your report "YourReport".

2. Create your printer setup class "YourPrinterSetup".

class YourPrinterSetup extends RunBase
{
    Map                     mapPrinterSettings;
    YourController   baseClass;
    Args                    args;

    #define.CurrentVersion(1)
    #localmacro.CurrentList
        mapPrinterSettings
    #endmacro
}

void new(Args _args)
{
    ;
    mapPrinterSettings = new Map(Types::Enum, Types::Container);
    Args = _args;

}

public container pack()
{
    return [#CurrentVersion, [#CurrentList, mapPrinterSettings.pack()]];

}

public boolean unpack(container _packedClass)
{
    Version     version;
    container   packedPrinterSettings, packedOutPaymRecordList, packedValues;

    version = RunBase::getVersion(_packedClass);

    switch (version)
    {
        case(#CurrentVersion) :
            [version, packedValues] = _packedClass;

            [#currentList, packedPrinterSettings] = packedValues;
            break;
        default :
            return false;
    }

    if (packedPrinterSettings)
    {
        // Recreate the object from the packed values.
        mapPrinterSettings = Map::create(packedPrinterSettings);
    }
    else
    {
        mapPrinterSettings = new Map(Types::Enum, Types::Container);
    }

    return true;

}

static void main(Args _args)
{
    YourPrinterSetup printSetup = new YourPrinterSetup(_args);

    printSetup.run();

}

updatePrinterSettings is used to store chosen settings.

public void updatePrinterSettings(container _printerSettings)
{
    mapPrinterSettings.insert("1", _printerSettings);

    baseClass.setPrinterSettings(_printerSettings);

}

In run method the standard SRSPrintDestinationSettings class is called. 

void run()
{
    SrsPrintDestinationSettings printSettings;
    FormRun                     printSettingForm;
    boolean                     ok = true;
    Object                      caller = args.caller();

    baseClass = caller.runbase();

    printSettings = new SrsPrintDestinationSettings();
    printSettings.unpack(this.getPrinterSettings());

    printSettings.fromPage(1);
    printSettings.toPage(99999999);

    args.caller(printSettings);
    args.name(formstr(SRSPrintDestinationSettingsForm));

    printSettingForm = classfactory.formRunClass(args);
    printSettingForm.init();
    printSettingForm.run();
    printSettingForm.wait(true);

    ok = printSettingForm.closedOk();

    if (ok)
    {
        this.updatePrinterSettings(printSettings.pack());
    }

}

3. Create Menu item "YourPrinterSetupMenuItem" of type Action. Object type Class, Object "YourPrinterSetup" class.

4. Add "YourPrinterSetupMenuItem" to the dialog of your "YourController" class. Something like this:

dialog.addMenuItemButton(MenuItemType::Action, "YourPrinterSetup", DialogMenuItemGroup::CurrentGrp);

5. Don't forget to implement setPrinterSettings method to your "YourController" class. It is used to pass chosen printer settings to "YourController".

public void setPrinterSettings(container _settings)
{
    printerSettings = _settings;

    printDestinationSettings = new SRSPrintDestinationSettings();
    if (conlen(printerSettings) > 0)
    {
        printDestinationSettings.unpack(printerSettings);
        dialogReportDestination.value(strFmt("%1", printDestinationSettings.printMediumType()));
    }
}

6. Pass printer settings to your "YourReport". Use it in that place where you call the report. See example below.

public class YourController extends RunBaseBatch
{
    container       printerSettings;
}

public void run()
{
    SrsReportRunController      srsReportRunCont;
    SRSPrintDestinationSettings printDestinationSettings;

    printDestinationSettings = new SRSPrintDestinationSettings();

    if (conlen(printerSettings) > 0)
    {
        printDestinationSettings.unpack(printerSettings);
    }

    srsReportRunCont = new SrsReportRunController();
    srsReportRunCont.parmReportName('YourReport.Report');
    srsReportRunCont.parmReportContract().parmPrintSettings(printDestinationSettings);
}

Hope it will help someone.
Mind that you can modify SrsPrintDestinationSettingsForm to enable/disable possibilities.

Ax 2012: How to modify SSRS Report design

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