Priting reports

How can I generate reports and print them in Java?

Take a look at JFreeReport:
http://www.object-refinery.com/jfreereport/index.html
Regards,
Dave Gilbert
www.object-refinery.com

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Reports - Priting a frame at a fixed position

I am developing an invoice report which prints order details and a payment stub. Order detail is in one frame and stub in another. I want to print the stub always at a fixed position towards the end of the page. Frame for the stub has a pageprotect. When the order frame takes nearly a page, the stub is printed on top of the next page. How can I force it to print towards the bottom of the page?
Thanks in advance.

The reason why your payment stub goes to the top of the next page is because of the implicit anchoring that exists between the stub frame and the details frame.
I suggest you draw a normal frame which ecloses both the frame and having vertically expand property and then manually achor the bottom of the stub frame with the bottom the new frame. This should solve the problem.
All the best. Reply if you get any other solution.
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Report prints Saved Data not Refreshed Data

We were running VS 2005 and using the Basic CR 2005 Basic that comes with it. We upgraded to use CR 2008 and found MANY issues after we went live in production that were apparent in the development. This has caused a lot of stress with us as well as our users. Iu2019ll summarize everything we found, possible workarounds and the open issues including the Printing/Loading of Saved Data.
First, it was reported that printing changed. It turns out when PrintMode = u2018PDFu2019 (default setting) it now asks after you choose u2018EXPORTu2019 (use to be u2018OKu2019) that it asks to Open or Save the Adobe. When our customers were running 20 some reports at a time and we had hundreds of users, this became a nuisance for the heavy reporting users and a training issue in general for us. With research, I found that we can change the PrintMode to be u2018ActiveXu2019. This was much better when we were testing. However, in Production it became a nightmare. If the user is on a Domain that disallows itu2019s user from installing software or if the user has tight security settings, this became a nightmare.
The second thing reported was that it was exporting to the wrong format. It was exporting into RPT format. It turns out with CR2008, it automatically defaults to RPT and the new pop-up, doesnu2019t isnu2019t clear to the user they even have a choice (the pop-up is much prettier, but it doesnu2019t look like a dropdown anymore). In addition, they reported it was taking twice as long to export (we think it was related to export file type now). With CR2005 Basic, it would have no default selection and if the user didnu2019t pick one, it would remind them they need to pick one. After much research, I found there is no way to customize the operation of the export without writing my own export. My users 90% of the time want to export to PDF and Excel the rest of the time. Since we arenu2019t using a CR Server like product, they NEVER will do RPT. There is no way with CR2008 to limit this list or to default the File Format. So now, if they forget to select the type, they get the wrong file format instead of being reminded to select one. Since the new pop-upu2019s dropdown selection isnu2019t easily apparent, this was a BIG issue for us. Since I have close to 300 reports on 7 websites, this will be a lot of work for me to write my own code and change all the ASPX page to use my own control.
The third thing reported was that the default name on Exporting was changed. Export uses the ID property of the Crystal Report Viewer as the default name of a file on export. When it replaced the viewer on all our pages, it set the ID to CrystalReportViewer1 instead of preserving the original ID. We now have to go back and change them to what we wanted manually. BEAWRE of this! For our power users who wanted to export 40 reports they now have type the name in manually on all of them. What took minutes now takes over an hour for them to do, until we can fix all the pages.
Now it was reported that some reports are showing OLD data. It turns out there shows Saved Data from design time. In our site, we have a parameter page which getu2019s user selected parameters, save to a session and then load the report page using the session variables, and then redirect them to the report page which on page load we set the reports parameters. We use the CrystalReportSource using ODBC. The report has all the connection information. Well if the user happens to select the same parameters I used at design time, it wonu2019t pull the data from the database. They see our test data instead which is garbage. If they select different parameters, display the report and then go back and select the original parameters, they will get the correct data. This can be catastrophic for us! So I added at the beginning of the Page Load before setting parameters the following:
     If Not Page.IsPostBack Then
            CRSServiceAlertsReport.ReportDocument.Refresh()
     End If
This seemed to work. A pain to add on every report page though when it wasnu2019t necessary before. But then I just got called this morning and they say when they print, it prited the OLD data. It seems the refresh pulled new data and updated the display in the viewer but the ActiveX print still used the original Saved Data! I couldnu2019t find a solution for this. I found switching PrintMode back to u2018Pdfu2019 worked but now I have the extra click issue again, which I described above. I tried setting the reports u2018Discard Saved Datau2019 option but it still had the data!
In the end, had I known about all these issues I would have NEVER upgraded to CR2008. Iu2019m still looking for help on getting by the following:
u2022     Stop using Saved Data at runtime (either on Display or Print)
u2022     Getting the PrintMode=u2019Pdfu2019 to just pull up Adobe in Open mode without prompting the user.
u2022     Remove File Type options from Export
u2022     Set the default File Type options to nothing or something I want.
Another nice feature to have would be the ActiveX control for printing to be part of the .NET Framework so users donu2019t need to download it. Come on BO is a big company Iu2019m sure they can work with MS. 

What is that method to clear Saved Data; I looked and couldn't find it. I never had to call one in the prior version of CR 2005 Basic in .Net. With the .NET controls, it always refreshed the data before. This is a change in behavior for me.
As for the Print using Adobe, with CR2005 Basic, it didn't prompt the user to Open or Save before. This is new behavior. It used to just open the report in Adobe in memory before without this specific prompt (it did have the first prompt for All or specific pages, but it would just open after that). This is a change in behavior from prior versions and it has caused me several issues.
Many users don't like change and I didn't know to communicate this to them. They were taken by surprise. We'll learn to live it I guess, but I would ask you just to consider, why have an option to "Save" to PDF when you choose to print? I would think you would use Export if you want to save. It would never hurt to add an option to allow alternatives either.
As for including with .NET Framework, it was just an idea. I know how hard it can be working with third parties. However, given that CR Basic comes with it, I thought it may be possible to work with them. The better the integration the better the product is for the developers. I was thinking the button could call JavaScript/Java to print instead of an ActiveX, or some other method. Since I donu2019t know how the Control works, I couldnu2019t say. It just would be nice. I had a smiley face after that request, it didn't come out right when I saved the post.
I still don't understand why .Refresh will update the data in the viewer but printing using the ActiveX Control will still print the saved data instead of refreshed data. Since I never used this in the prior version I don't know what it would of done or not, but it just doesn't seem right it shows one set of data, and prints another.
In addition, why the designer still saves data with the report when you state not to, I think may be a problem still.
Edited by: Thomas Johnson on Nov 21, 2008 12:26 PM

Displaying selection criteria in ALV report output

Hello,
Ive been using REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY function module to display my report content in ALV.
My reports selection criteria has parameters, select options, checkboxes and radio buttons. As part of the ALV output, I want to display the criteria that the user had selected in the selection screen. I was hoping to do that via parameter "i_callback_top_of_page" and fill the selection criteria in the header area. I'm using REUSE_ALV_COMMENTARY_WRITE to fill the header area.
However, the header area takes too much of view space in the output if I put all the selection screen information in it.
Is there a way to make the header area scrollable? What is a good way of displaying the selection criteria information as part of the report output?
Appreciate your help.
ss

Hi SS,
1. The purpose of displaying / writring
   selection information
   in alv is
   for identifying what the user has seleccted,
   directly from the report (when its printed)
2. So, the option of priting/writing
   it on the TOP of alv, is ok.
3. However, U can also choose to WRITE
it at the BOTTOM (instead of top)
4. Try to utilise maximum spacing (horizontally)
   field1 : abcd      fidl2 = xyz field3 = ppp
   field4 : mnc       etc.         etc.
regards,
amit m.

Printing issue with pdftops for XML publisher reports.

Hi All,
We have recently upgraded from 11.5.10 to R12.1.3.
We are facing a strange issue for some of the seeded reports that were converted to type XML after R12 upgrade.
First, the reports were printed with junk / xml character while submitting the requests from application (e.g. Account Analysis Report)
We made the following changes.
- Added PDF Publisher style with required flag set to yes to the Account Analysis Report.
- Set proifle option "FND: Default Template Output Type" to PDF (it was blank)
- The pasta_pdf.cfg is configured to use pdftops for conversion
- Restarted the manager.
After this, the above report is priting fine and pdftops is converting it to correct format before printing.
But one of the printer that Oracle EBS is configured is getting stuck specifically for this postscript based request. The same report prints well on another printer.
The 'lpstat -t' shows the following status for the failing printer.
=============
printer PRT1 is idle. enabled since Tue 23 Jul 2013 03:24:40 PM EDT
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed
=============
The printer queue logs on the application servers shows the following details for the failing printer.
=========================================
I [22/Jul/2013:15:00:48 -0400] [Job 137] Queued on "PRT1" by "appldfin".
I [22/Jul/2013:15:00:48 -0400] [Job 137] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 13530)
I [22/Jul/2013:15:00:48 -0400] [Job 137] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 13531)
I [22/Jul/2013:15:00:48 -0400] [Job 137] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups (PID 13532)
I [22/Jul/2013:15:00:48 -0400] [Job 137] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 13533)
E [22/Jul/2013:15:00:48 -0400] [Job 137] Job stopped due to filter errors.
==========
The printer that works fine on the same application server has the following message.
==========
I [22/Jul/2013:15:16:44 -0400] [Job 139] Queued on "PRT2" by "appldfin".
I [22/Jul/2013:15:16:44 -0400] [Job 139] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 15825)
I [22/Jul/2013:15:16:44 -0400] [Job 139] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 15826)
I [22/Jul/2013:15:16:44 -0400] [Job 139] Completed successfully.
==============
It only goes through 2 filters and prints just fine
The system admin team has tried to re-install the printer driver but no luck.
Any idea what could be the cause and how can fix it?
Any pointers will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Sunil Bhavsar

Thanks Hussein.
I will check the 2 options you recommended. At the same, I would like to test the direct print from the OS using pdftops utility. But not sure how can I do that?
The concurrent request creates the .tmp file under APPLTMP and pass that as the parameter while printing such requests. But if we need to test the .PDF output using pdftops directly, what should be the syntax? Or I would say, what should be the input file and output file?
e.g.
pdftops {infile} {outfile}
I have got the .PDF output under $APPLCSF/$APPLOUT. But from one of the failed request logs, I see the system passes both as .tmp. If we need to test this directly, is there any way?
In the meantime, I will check the debug logs option and update if it provides any additional information.
Regards,
Sunil

Need to find the root cause of the XML Publisher report erroring out.

Hello All,
After I ran for a Particular Invoice, to have output in XML Publisher Report for Invoice Priting. It got errored out with the below details which i got from the OPP Log file.
From the below information, how do I get exact root cause. Please do the needful.
=======================================================================
[8/6/09 11:16:32 AM] [774712:RT14922832] Executing post-processing actions for request 14922832.
[8/6/09 11:16:32 AM] [774712:RT14922832] Starting XML Publisher post-processing action.
[8/6/09 11:16:32 AM] [774712:RT14922832]
Template code: XXBIORAXINV_PHY
Template app: BIO_AR
Language: en
Territory: 00
Output type: PDF
[8/6/09 11:16:33 AM] [UNEXPECTED] [774712:RT14922832] java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.invokeParse(XSLT10gR1.java:517)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.transform(XSLT10gR1.java:224)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLTWrapper.transform(XSLTWrapper.java:177)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:1044)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:997)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:212)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor.createFO(FOProcessor.java:1657)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor.generate(FOProcessor.java:967)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.runProcessTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:5888)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.processTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:3438)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.processTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:3527)
     at oracle.apps.fnd.cp.opp.XMLPublisherProcessor.process(XMLPublisherProcessor.java:229)
     at oracle.apps.fnd.cp.opp.OPPRequestThread.run(OPPRequestThread.java:153)
Caused by: oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Unexpected EOF.
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrors1(XMLError.java:324)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLReader.popXMLReader(XMLReader.java:526)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseElement(NonValidatingParser.java:1287)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:314)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:281)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:266)
     ... 17 more
[8/6/09 11:16:33 AM] [774712:RT14922832] Completed post-processing actions for request 14922832.
=======================================================================
Please do the needful. Suggest the steps to get rid of this critical - issue.
Thanks,
Abdul

Please check if Output Post Processor concurrent manager is down/ inactive.
Restart the manager/ get it restarted and test the issue.
System Admin >> Concurrent >> Manager >> Administer

Crystal Report Runtime

Dear Readers,
First off, if I am writing this topic in the wrong forum, I appologize.
Secondly, I am out of ideas on how to troubleshoot my problem and have resorted to this community in hope that I could find a solution.
Situation:
We have a software that generates crytal reports. I design these reports myself and have access to all of them if needed.
Recently we have upgraded that software in question, and crystal report runtine was also upgraded ( had to uninstall crystal report runtime and install the bundled one before installing the software).
The software i'm talking about is bundled with Crystal Report 2008 Runtime SP2.   With this version, when i would send reports to be printed, they would always print sideways.   I contacted support and they said:
"This is actually a crystal runtime issue. In order to fix this you need to download a newer crystal release, the 3.1 version does have the fix:
https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/bobj_download/main.htm
The Runtime is found under the Utility Software type."
I went and downloaded the suggested file and it has fixed the sideway priting problem.
Here are the 2 remaining problems that support cannot give me an answer to solve this:
1- When I click the Printer button in the Crystal Report object and I select our Windows Server 2008 Fax driver, I can see printing to crystal report pages 1 of 2, 2of 2 and then the fax menu shows up (where i select a recipient, etc)   after i click send, the fax isnt being sent out.     If i send the same crystal report to a PDF writer instead and i try to fax it, no problems.
2- We have a Datamax I-4208 thermal label printer. When crystal report jobs are sent to the printer, all the data appears on the label...except the data is incredibly small, making it almost impossible to read.   If i open the .rpt file and send it to the label printer, then no issues.
what should i check out for?
Any ideas on how i can start trying to fix this?
thanks
-sebastien

You have two questions so I suggest you post two threads.
A quick suggestion for your 2nd question related to the label printer. Make sure you are not using the Dissociate Formatting Page Size and Printer Paper Size feature in the Crystal Report. This allows the engine to scale your report output and results in horrible printing for label printers. Also, we've done a bunch of updates to printing in the last fix packs so ensure you are on the latest fix pack (3.3).
Crystal Reports 2008 Reference Page
Crystal Reports 2008 Reference [original link is broken]

Exporting BOXI Report to Excel

Hi,
When I am exporting my BOXI report to Excel, formatting is not being exported as is. I had formatted BO report to print in Landscape. When I export to pdf, it working fine,but when exported to Excel, it is not priting in Landscape. Is there any way to overcome this problem..
Thanks,
Ven Men

Hi Ven,
Actually that page size option works only for WEBI documents printing.
When you click on the print button on WEBI which is just next to the save button, it will show the setting you have set in the properties.
So you can directly print the document from here.
If your issue is just related to printing the reports then go for this option, dont export to excel or pdf.
You can directly set the properties and print the report from WEBI itself no need to export.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Chirag Desai.

Problem printing more than 255 characters in report output and in the spool

Hi Guys,
I am trying to print one file in the report output and in the spool but it's priting till 255 characters only. If I try the samething while writing in application server and in peresentation server it is printing full content. I am giving the line size in the REPORT statement as more than 255 like 300 but even it is not printing. How can i print the full contents. Whether it is any basis related issue or in any settings can we do that. please advice.
Thanks in advance.

If it is not showing in Spool, Basis people has to do some setting in SPAD Transaction.

Table of contents in Reports 6i

Hello, everyone.
Does anyone know how to create table of contents in Oracle Reports 6i?
My output looks like that:
1.0 Introduction -- (printed on page 1)
some data...
1.1 Integration -- (printed on page 3)
some data...
1.1.1 Testing (printed on page 7)
some data....
All of course in indented according to number.
Now, I need to created a table of contents that looks like that:
1.0 Introduction ................................ 1
1.1 Integration ............................. 3
1.1.1 Testing ............................ 7
with indent as well. I can build it manually in the header section, the only thing that I don't know is how to get a page number. I don't know at the runtime, which page it will be for a certain section. The report output is printed as pdf file. Maybe there is a way to send a command to print bookmarks instead?
Please, help.

Hi Lena,
I think it's impossible. Let image following situatian: you send your report to printer... Could you change your first shit after that one had been prited? Unfortunately no. Maybe your should do your contents on the last pages?
If you will do so, you will be able to place page's number in the table of contents.
Sorry.

Different Footer in XML Publisher reports

Hi Experts,
I am working in INVOICE REPORT (XML Publisher report).
RTF: 2 page rtf
page1:
INVOICE INFORMATION
page2:
Description of Invoice.
Output:
page1 - Invoice1
page2 - Description
page3 - Invoice2
page4 - Description
etc...
Till now it's working fine. Here it's printing DESCRIPTION after each invoice.
Requirement: No footer in the second page of rtf.
To achieve this, i put a section break in the first page, now footer in first page only.
But the problem is, it's not giving desired output.
Output:
page1 - Invoice1
page2 - Invoice2
page3 -Invoice3
l-
last page -Description.
It's not printing the DESCRIPTION after each invoice page, only in the end it's priting the Description.
Because of section break, it's behaving like this.
Could some body help me how to get the DESCRIPTION after inovice Without having FOOTER in the second page of rtf.
Thanks in adnvance.

Hi Experts,
Could somebody help me.
Awaiting your responses.
Thanks.

Page size issues while saving Deski report to PDF

Hi All,
While saving the Deski report as PDF, the page size changes randomly.
The workflow is:
Created a report in Deski.
-- Chekced in File | Page setup the zoom size(Fit to Print | Adjust to) is 100% and the paper size is A4.
-- Saved it as PDF.
-- In Acrobat Reader 7.0, opened the save report, the size of paper is 8.5*11, the normal paper size.
-- In the report in theFile | Page setup, changed the zoom size to anything less than 100% (e.g changed to 90%) whereas the paper size is A4.
-- Saved it as PDF.
-- In the Acrobar Reader noticed that the page size increases to some random size(e.g 9.18*12.99).
When priting the Document the printer changes the same to A4 resulting in truncating of the content.
The page size should be same but the content size should reduce.
The issue can be reproduced in 6.5 and XIR2 as well.
Is there any workaround for this that the size of the content decrease rather than increasing the page size??

Hi Sarbhjeet,
Thank you for all your help.
Further to our investigation we found that this is known issue and it is a limitation of the Product, it wont be fixed.
The ADAPT for the same is ADAPT00743734
It is reproducible with XI 3.1 as well.
FYI...........
1. PDF Engine will get the rendering information from the busobj. If there is a character size differences between PDF and busobj, there are chances that you may see bigger cells or reduced data in PDF.
2. In the report when Fit to 1 page by 1 wide in Pagesetup->FitToPrint, the page size will be set to the fit the complete report in busobj.
3. When save as PDF, this information (increased page size, due to settings in 2) will be sent to PDF Engine. The Engine will try to fit the size into the available standard PDF size (based on Print settings and other combinations).If it tries to fit the report (enhanced page size) to the available size, then we loose lot of information depending on the number of columns and rows.
4. Shrinking the report in busobj may not feasible.
When we change the page size in Fit to Print (either Adjust to % or Fit to ) , in reporter it changes the page size instead of changing the rendering to fit to the page.
When save the report to PDF, it gets the information with extended page size. So we see the enhanced page in PDF.
Also in order to implement the shrink (instead of changing the Page size), each cell has to be shrieked to the percentage of the reduced page (compared to the original page size). It becomes more complicated when charts come to picture.
I hope the above information helps.
Thanks & Regards,
Anisa

EBS R12 Report Printing using PASTA

Hi Friends,
Can you help me with my printing set-up please. I am priting a standard reports but the
printing is not centered. It has big margin on the left (like 3 inches ) and the right side columns
overshooted.
How do I adjust my printing to move for right to left by scale? or How do i choose paper size?
Or how do I print macro like a font 6 instead of normal 12?
Thanks a lot

Duplicate Post (Check your other thread):
EBS R12 Report Printing using PASTA
Re: EBS R12 Report Printing using PASTA

Reports6i:Developing reports of different size(Pre-Printed Stationary)

I am using Reports 6i. I want to generate reports of page size 3.5" (height), 11.5"(width). I modified the layout sections width and height properties.
I am printing reports on continuous Pre-printed stationary with dot matrix printer.
After printing first record, the continuous stationary is skipping 3 records space(It is taking printer portrait height 11" and width 8.5" setting) and after that the next record is printing.
What are the settings to be modify to avoide the skipping of 3 records space in the stationary.
Looking for your help/suggestions
Regards
Krishna Reddy M
[email protected]

Hi Krishna!
I suppose that you have modified properties of the "Main Section" of the "Layout Model" in Object Navigator.
Several things can be checked:
1. In the layout editor click "Edit Margin" button and make sure that the outer black frame (your actual page to be prited) is of the size you want.
2. If you have a repeating frame check that "Maximum records per page", "Vert.space between frames", "Page break after", and some others are set properly.
3. Another approach is to generate your report into pdf file and print it using OS means.
Regards,
Andrew Velitchko
BrainBench MVP for Developer/2000
http://www.brainbench.com

Need help in Oracle reports 6i

I have a report in 6i, which displays participant details as output on a single page. Presently page one is printed on a pre-printed format which contains some static text. Now we need to make changes in the report it self to accomodate the static text also. How can I do this without touching the existing report. As I have not worked much on reports I am not sure how to do this.
I have tried adding the static content in the footer section but it did not help.
I have really not worked on reports so I am not sure how do i do that.
I can describe the elements of the report as below:
1. Report has a non-repeating frame within that a repeating frame which brings the main data of a participant (from say table t1 where participant_flag='Y')
2. The participant repeating frame has another repeating frame which has dependents data(from table t1 where participant_flag='N')
Edited by: LostWorld on Feb 11, 2011 8:10 PM
Edited by: LostWorld on Feb 11, 2011 8:21 PM

My report brings some data based on a query which comes on a single page. This page is then printed on a pre-printed paper and sent to participants of a firm. The pre-printed content is common to all participant. For e.g. the letter head for the company has some text which is used for priting any offer letter etc.
I need to include the 2nd page in report 6i.
Edited by: LostWorld on Feb 11, 2011 8:09 PM

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