Hi Devon, I didn't remember that utility, it works as expected!

Quote from: Mike King on July 02, 2020, 04:19:34 PMHave you consider the PxPlus "CREATE FILE" command?  It will allow you to copy opened files.

Have at look at: https://manual.pvxplus.com/?/directives/create_file.htm

Hi, this post is really old, but does "CREATE FILE" work with Windx? I'm trying to copy a file from a local PC to a server, but when using create file I get error "#13 File access mode invalid"

James, I tried it with numerical values, but it still doesn't work.

Mike, I tried passing the object from exportOptions and it's still not working. I think your example uses a different version of Crystal Reports; we're using 8.5. As mentioned before, we used the same logic in PowerShell and it works fine, so we think it should work in pxplus.

PowerShell code Works:
$app = New-Object -ComObject CrystalRuntime.Application
$report = $app.OpenReport("C:\temp\customers.rpt")
$report.EnableParameterPrompting = $false
$report.DisplayProgressDialog = $false
$report.DiscardSavedData() | Out-Null
$exportOpts = $report.ExportOptions
$exportOpts.DestinationType = 1
$exportOpts.FormatType = 31
$exportOpts.DiskFileName = "C:\temp\customers.pdf"
$exportOpts.PDFExportAllPages = $true
$report.Export($false)
Pxplus code Fails:
DEF OBJECT CR_APP,"CrystalRuntime.Application"
 LET REPORT=CR_APP'OPENREPORT("C:\temp\customers.rpt")
 LET REPORT'ENABLEPARAMETERPROMPTING=0
 LET REPORT'DISPLAYPROGRESSDIALOG=0
 LET DS=REPORT'DISCARDSAVEDDATA()
 LET EXPORTOPTS=REPORT'EXPORTOPTIONS ! Opts Object EXPORTOPTS
 LET EXPORTOPTS'DESTINATIONTYPE=1
 LET EXPORTOPTS'FORMATTYPE=31 ! pdf
 LET EXPORTOPTS'PDFEXPORTALLPAGES=-1
 LET EXPORTOPTS'DISKFILENAME$="C:\temp\customers.pdf"
 REPORT'EXPORT(0)

Mike, I tried doing it as you instructed, but I'm still getting the same error.

DEF OBJECT v,"*VARIANT"
v'val$="false"
v'type$="B"
PRINT v'val$
0
report'export(*v)
report'export(v) !also try this
Error #88: Invalid/unknown property name
Exception occurred (err/ret=2/0)



Mike, thanks for your reply. Could you give me an example of how to pass a boolean value false because my attempts are receiving the same error?

We try:
DEF OBJECT V,"*VARIANT"
LET V'TYPE$="B"
LET V'VAL$="0"
! LET V'VAL$="FALSE" !ALSO TRY THIS
REPORT'EXPORT(*V)
!REPORT'EXPORT(V) ! also try this

Devon, According to the documentation, I should send true or false. I even tested it with PowerShell and VB.NET, and it works by sending the parameter false, so the problem seems to be in how PXPlus sends the value to the method.

Hi Koe, thanks for your help. Adding * to the constructor worked correctly.



Devon,about the other issue, i can confirm that this method exists. In fact, if we try it without arguments like report'export(), it works, but it displays a dialog box, and we don't want that, I have attached an image of what msg(-1) tells me, but it doesn't give me any indication of how to fix it or what might be causing the exception.

hi james, yes, we have tried with: true,false,"true","false",$00$,-1,0, and in all cases we get the same error.

Hi everyone. Lately, we've been working with third-party objects to interact with xmlsig, CR reports, etc., and we're having the same problem when passing a value to a method that requires another object as its constructor, or when passing a boolean value to the method. Does anyone know how we should handle these kinds of interactions? Thanks in advance.

Example with cr reports:
!
 DEF OBJECT CR_APP,"CrystalRuntime.Application"
 LET REPORT=CR_APP'OPENREPORT("C:\temp\customers.rpt") ! // This opens the report and creates the 'Report' object
 !
 LET EXP=REPORT'EXPORTOPTIONS
 LET EXP'DESTINATIONTYPE=1
 LET EXP'FORMATTYPE=31 ! pdf
 LET EXP'PDFEXPORTALLPAGES=-1
 LET EXP'DISKFILENAME$="C:\temp\customers.pdf")
 !CR Expects a boolean (true or false) !false no show dialog
 REPORT'EXPORT(0) ! this give an error 88 Invalid/unknown property name
example with xmlsig:
DEF OBJECT SIG,"Chilkat.XmlDSigGen.11" ! xmlsigner object
DEF OBJECT CERT,"Chilkat.Cert.11" ! cert object
LET CERT'LOADPFXFILE("C:\temp\cert.p12","pass")
LET C=CERT'LOADPFXFILE("C:\temp\cert.p12","pass") ! also we try this
LET SIG'SETX509CERT(CERT,1) ! this give an error 88 Invalid/unknown property name
LET SIG'SETX509CERT(C,1) !this give an error 88 Invalid/unknown property name ! also we try this

James we have checked it and we have not found any difference in the body, it even has exactly the same length except for the Boundary.

Hi Devon, sorry for the delay in responding. We're trying to resolve this issue. We use byte counting, and the difference between the content length in Postman and pxplus is the Boundary length. Technically, this shouldn't affect the HTTP request, so we don't believe it's the issue. We're still trying to determine what the problem is. What do you suggest?

Devon, we used the CALL "*tools/readfile",path$,xml_str$ tool to read the file, so I believe the length is correct.

devon we saw those small differences but technically this should not have a negative impact on the http request, however we have made the changes so that it is exactly like in postman, except for the postman-token, the cookie and the content-length, which according to pxplus that would be the correct size (5506), I don't know why in postman it is a little smaller (5500), we are using pxplus 2025, but we have tried with several versions and we have the same results, the truth is we are running out of ideas, maybe we have to use powershell or c# to make the http request

Thanks Devon for your reply, we tried that change but we have the same results, any other ideas?

Thanks Loren for your reply. We saw that small difference and made the change, but we had the same results. We think it must be something with the headers, but we can't figure out what the error is.