Talked to an old customer today who was looking for a way to check No Printer on his Crystal Reports to get around an issue with not having the same printer driver installed on the BOE machine as the reports were designed against.
I checked and to my surprise I could not find any sample code posted except the ones I put on the forums so i decided to create this post for it.
Essentially there is no way to check the No Printer checkbox directly via code. What you have to do is remove all of the print options from the Crystal Report and by default this will check the no printer button for you.
And at the same time if you have a Report with No printer checked on and want to change the orientation to landscape see this test app on how to and the section - private void btnSetPrinter_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e
Printing Crystal Reports in .NET
Following are the VB.NET and C# code using the RAS SDK to accomplish this.
bq. Check No Printer with VB.NET<br /><textarea cols="75" rows="10">Imports CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc
Imports CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.Controllers
Imports CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportDefModel
Imports CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.DataDefModel
Public Class WebForm1
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
#Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code "
'This call is required by the Web Form Designer.
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
End Sub
'NOTE: The following placeholder declaration is required by the Web Form Designer.
'Do not delete or move it.
Private designerPlaceholderDeclaration As System.Object
Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
InitializeComponent()
Dim rdc As ReportClientDocument
' create report client document
rdc = New ReportClientDocument
' set report application server location
rdc.ReportAppServer = "127.0.0.1"
' create a new report based on the no printer checked report
rdc.Open("C:\Reports\NoPrinterReport.rpt")
' copy out the print options from the no printer report
Dim pOpts As PrintOptions
pOpts = rdc.PrintOutputController.GetPrintOptions.Clone(True)
' create a report client document
Dim rcd1 As ReportClientDocument
rcd1 = New ReportClientDocument
rcd1.ReportAppServer = "127.0.0.1"
' create a new report based on the report with a printer selected
rcd1.Open("C:\Reports\PrinterReport.rpt")
' modify all of the print options and base them on the no printer reports print options and save
rcd1.PrintOutputController.ModifyPrintOptions(pOpts)
rcd1.PrintOutputController.ModifyPrinterName("")
rcd1.PrintOutputController.ModifyPageMargins(pOpts.PageMargins.Left, pOpts.PageMargins.Right, _
pOpts.PageMargins.Top, pOpts.PageMargins.Bottom)
rcd1.PrintOutputController.ModifyPaperOrientation(CrPaperOrientationEnum.crPaperOrientationDefault)
rcd1.PrintOutputController.ModifyUserPaperSize(pOpts.PageContentHeight, pOpts.PageContentWidth)
rcd1.Save()
End Sub
#End Region
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Put user code to initialize the page here
End Sub
End Class
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<blockquote>Check No Printer with C#
public class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
ReportClientDocument rcd;
ReportClientDocument rcd1;
PrintOptions pOpts;
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// Put user code to initialize the page here
// create report client document
rcd = new ReportClientDocument();
// set report application server location
rcd.ReportAppServer = "127.0.0.1";
// create a new report based on the report with no printer checked
object file = "C:
Reports
NoPrinterReport.rpt";
rcd.Open(ref file, 0);
// copy out the print options from the no printer report
pOpts = new PrintOptionsClass();
pOpts = rcd.PrintOutputController.GetPrintOptions();
// create a new report based on the report with a printer selected
rcd1 = new ReportClientDocument();
// set report application server location
rcd1.ReportAppServer = "127.0.0.1";
// create a new report
object file2 = "C:
Reports
PrinterReport.rpt";
rcd1.Open(ref file2, 0);
//modify all of the print options and base them on the no printer reports print options and save over top of the existing report
rcd1.PrintOutputController.ModifyPrintOptions(pOpts);
rcd1.PrintOutputController.ModifyPrinterName("");
rcd1.PrintOutputController.ModifyPageMargins(pOpts.PageMargins.Left, pOpts.PageMargins.Right, pOpts.PageMargins.Top, pOpts.PageMargins.Bottom);
rcd1.PrintOutputController.ModifyPaperOrientation(CrPaperOrientationEnum.crPaperOrientationDefault);
rcd1.PrintOutputController.ModifyUserPaperSize(pOpts.PageContentHeight, pOpts.PageContentWidth);
rcd1.Save();
}
#region Web Form Designer generated code
override protected void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
//
// CODEGEN: This call is required by the ASP.NET Web Form Designer.
//
InitializeComponent();
base.OnInit(e);
}
///
