Export to disk to the same file twice or more

Question

Post Author: Koen
CA Forum: Exporting
Hello,
i am writing an application in vs 2008 en cr 2008.
The purpose of the application is to send offers to the customer throug e-mail.
The report is exported to filename "Offer Nr : 70012.pdf" in the report the name of the customer is changed to his name and then the PDF is send via smtp server.
The first time this works fine, the second time i get an error : The process cannot access the file "Offer Nr : 70012.pdf" because it is being used by another process.
Code :
public void ExportOfferToPDF(String FileName, String EMail, string DocumentId, String ContactId)         {
            DemandeDePrix1.RecordSelectionFormula =                "{vw_print_doc_demande.id} = '" + DocumentId +                "' and {vw_print_doc_demande.ContactId} = '" + ContactId + "'";
            DemandeDePrix1.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.Excel, FileName);
            SendEmail(FileName, Email);                    }

Answer 1

Post Author: IdoMillet
CA Forum: Exporting
Sounds like you may need to place a delay between the export and the email.If you'd like to achieve the same thing without the need to run the report again and again for each ContactID, consider a 3rd-party tool.  See list of such tools at: http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html.My Visual CUT software can do this in a single pass without a need to know the list of group values ahead of time -- they are identified on the fly based on the information in the report.- Ido