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Thanks again
Yes we intend to have the option to send html/pdf and probably xls back to
the user. The tool will allow us to create them easily from either a spool
file or an sql statement. We (or the user in some cases) will be able to
request what the return output will be.
Can code similar to that below also be used to return an excel file?
Jim
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message: 10
date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:28:24 -0500
from: "rick baird" <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: reading pdf/html from ifs send via cgidev2
FYI, for the code below, the standard out to the browser looks like this:
Content-Type: Text/HTML
Pragma: no-cache'
Expires: 0
Cache-Control: no-cache
<html><script language=JavaScript>
var pdfWindow =
window.open("//webdirectory/pdfs/mypdffilename.pdf","pdfWindow","scrollbars,
resizable,width=750,height=540");
pdfWindow;
pdfWindow.moveTo(3,3);
history.back();
</script></html>
On 12/28/06, rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm not very well versed in how cgidev2 works (just played briefly
with it) but....
If you can already create the PDF and can give it a unique name via
the CGI program, the program can tell the browser to open the pdf in a
separate window by pushing the following code back to the browser via
std out - (this is the only reply the browser receives from the CGI
report request):
C eval OutStr = 'Content-Type: Text/HTML' +
C $CrLf + 'Pragma: no-cache' +
C $CrLf + 'Expires: 0' +
C $CrLf + 'Cache-Control: no-cache' +
C $CrLf + $CrLf +
C '<html><script language=JavaScript>' +
C $CrLf +
C 'var pdfWindow = window.open("' +
C %trim(PDFPATH) + ",' +
C '"pdfWindow","scrollbars,resizable,' +
C 'width=750,height=540");'+ $CrLf +
C 'pdfWindow;' + $CrLf +
C 'pdfWindow.moveTo(3,3);' + $CrLf +
C 'history.back();' + $CrLf +
C '</script></html>'
C exsr $APIStdOut
- PDFPATH is the webserver defined path to the IFS location and file
name. example:
/webdirectory/pdfs/mypdffilename.pdf
the code will open a new window, and the pdf extension tells the
browser to open adobe reader and download the file.
after the new window is displayed, the original browser will return -
using history.back() - to the page that requested the report.
hope this helps a little.
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