MVC window.print() Question

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_{Friday, July 14, 2017 2:06 PM}

Using a version from my test server. when I do a window.print(), that is linked to a button on the form, on my machine, it is opening up a print dialog.  Ideally I just want this to create and open a PDF file.  Now I have to specify the PDF Adobe print driver and print to a file.  On our production server, the current process when the <Print> button is clicked, the windows.print() prompts the user to Open or Save a PDF.  There must be some difference in the code.

Thanks!

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_{Friday, July 14, 2017 3:04 PM}

window.print(), is a command to the browser to print the page. like picking file->print. if clicking the server button opens a save dialog, then it just a link to a request that return a pdf document.

   <a href="/some url that return a pdf">print</a>

most like its server code that builds a report and returns a pdf file.

_{Friday, July 14, 2017 5:11 PM}

Thanks for the reply,

I am having a difficult time finding the link.   The onclick event for the button is onclick = "windows.print()", and that's it.  Searching the entire solution, I see no reference to PDF or Adobe, etc

It is hidden somewhere...

_{Friday, July 14, 2017 5:48 PM}

You can open a pdf with 

<a href="#" onclick="window.open('MyPDF.pdf', '_blank', 'fullscreen=yes'); return false;">MyPDF</a>

 <a href="#" onclick="window.open('file:///D:/Examples/file2.html')">CLICK ME</a>

_{Friday, July 14, 2017 7:49 PM}

1. Thanks for the reply.

I traced the code and it seems that the version of the code is not the exact as the on that is running in our current production environment.  (Bad outsource project.)  I was able figure out what code needs to run instead of what is there.   However, now my question is:

For this report there is a .cshtml  

1. @myModel.Models.myTrendReport @{
2.  Viewbag.Title = "My Trend Report"
3. @Section ViewScripts {script type = "text/javascript"
4. There are two functions for that are mapped to buttons or hyperlinks on the page.  The one function prints the report calling a Reporting Services URL. This is the function that I am replacing the window.print(). 
5. Alter the last function code there is the </script> Then the first <div> starts.
6. In the <div> section it is referencing a Model.Item   ie @Model.Category.ID
7. I need to be able to access this ID in the function and concatenate it at the end of the Reporting Services URL. 

       Function PrintReport() {

        const reporturl= 'http://myULR/ReportServer?/ReportName:Format=PDF&UserID=';

         var fullReportUrl =reporturl + @Model.Category.ID;  << This is the value I need.....>>>>

         var newWindow = window.open(fullReportUrl, 'Trend Report', 'height=400,width=600');
            newWindow.focus();
            return true; 

}

Thanks for the help.

_{Monday, July 17, 2017 6:06 AM}

Hi aspdev0978,

aspdev0978

var fullReportUrl =reporturl + @Model.Category.ID;  << This is the value I need.....>>>>

Please use double quotes "" to wrap the @Model.Category.ID in above code to make it correct.

var fullReportUrl =reporturl + "@Model.Category.ID"; << This is the value I need.....>>>>

Best Regards,

Jean