topic Version 8.5 - Button Object for Report Generation in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239907#M90473 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>READ "generating PDF Printer" as "generating PDF file".</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:29:05 GMT 2011-03-04T15:29:05Z Version 8.5 - Button Object for Report Generation https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239903#M90469 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Greetings everyone!</P><P>I need to link a report I created in an App to a <B>button object</B>, in order to print it (user's demand).</P><P>I'm aware that version 10 make it in the easiest way, but a new version of QV is out of question here...</P><P>Can any one help?</P><P>Thx in advance!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:00:00 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239903#M90469 2011-03-04T15:00:00Z Version 8.5 - Button Object for Report Generation https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239904#M90470 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Fairly straightforward - you need to create a VBS macro - e.g.:</P><P></P><P>Sub PrintReport()</P><P>ActiveDocument.PrintReportEx "RP01"</P><P>End Sub</P><P></P><P>You can call the macro from a button.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P></P><P></P><P>Stephen</P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:10:30 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239904#M90470 stephencredmond 2011-03-04T15:10:30Z Version 8.5 - Button Object for Report Generation https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239905#M90471 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Stephen, thank you for answering!</P><P>I did as you say, and when I click the button, the EDIT MODULE screen comes up... any other detail to make the button open the report print popup?</P><P>Thanx again!!!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:19:21 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239905#M90471 2011-03-04T15:19:21Z Version 8.5 - Button Object for Report Generation https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239906#M90472 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Just to clarify, I want the button to bring the PRINT popup, for the user to choose between printing it inpaper, or generating a PDF printer. Is it possible?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:27:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239906#M90472 2011-03-04T15:27:17Z Version 8.5 - Button Object for Report Generation https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239907#M90473 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>READ "generating PDF Printer" as "generating PDF file".</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:29:05 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239907#M90473 2011-03-04T15:29:05Z Version 8.5 - Button Object for Report Generation https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239908#M90474 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Try ActiveDocument.PrintReport "RP01", "", True - should show the dialog. Note this will only work for "thick" clients. Web clients will just get the report generated as PDF and then opened on their local machine.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Stephen</P><P></P><DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:42:03 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239908#M90474 stephencredmond 2011-03-04T17:42:03Z Version 8.5 - Button Object for Report Generation https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239909#M90475 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Stephen, it worked perfectly!!!</P><P>Thank you so much for your attention!!!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:39:29 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Version-8-5-Button-Object-for-Report-Generation/m-p/239909#M90475 2011-03-04T18:39:29Z