Maybe I never sent it or I addressed it wrong but my response hasn't shown up from yesterday. So if my original ever shows up excuse any duplication.
What you are describing is pretty much what my directions show how to do. The user will click on the button, the current record information is written to an xml file, the BAQ report is launched, during the BAQ report's form load event the XML file is read. The values read are loaded into the BAQ report's dataview. If you have an option input control say for the job number you can populate this for the user so they do not need to enter it. For many of my reports I disable the control so the user just see the job number but can not make any changes. If you want you can hide the control which tends to be the way existing report look. All this happens without the user doing anything other than clicking the button.
You do a simple customization on both the calling programs (i.e. Job Entry) and in the BAQ Report program. The directions are fairly detailed but does assume some comfort with customization.
I do this in 9 but the approach should work pretty much the same in 8 other than changing the code to VB. I vaguely remember doing it for the first time in 8. It is pretty plain vanilla code so if you are not familiar with C# a little Google should be all that is needed to convert it to VB.
The file is located on the Vantage yahoo Group page under File/Epicor 9 Crystal reports. If you have trouble locating the file let me know and I will email it to you.
Jim Kinneman
Senior Consultant
Encompass Solutions, Inc
What you are describing is pretty much what my directions show how to do. The user will click on the button, the current record information is written to an xml file, the BAQ report is launched, during the BAQ report's form load event the XML file is read. The values read are loaded into the BAQ report's dataview. If you have an option input control say for the job number you can populate this for the user so they do not need to enter it. For many of my reports I disable the control so the user just see the job number but can not make any changes. If you want you can hide the control which tends to be the way existing report look. All this happens without the user doing anything other than clicking the button.
You do a simple customization on both the calling programs (i.e. Job Entry) and in the BAQ Report program. The directions are fairly detailed but does assume some comfort with customization.
I do this in 9 but the approach should work pretty much the same in 8 other than changing the code to VB. I vaguely remember doing it for the first time in 8. It is pretty plain vanilla code so if you are not familiar with C# a little Google should be all that is needed to convert it to VB.
The file is located on the Vantage yahoo Group page under File/Epicor 9 Crystal reports. If you have trouble locating the file let me know and I will email it to you.
Jim Kinneman
Senior Consultant
Encompass Solutions, Inc
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, effgroups@... wrote:
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> I have a similar issue.
> I placed a button to job pick list report on the job entry and would like the report to come up with the job selected in the filter.
> Is there a way to do this??
> Ephraim Feldman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "jckinneman" <jckinneman@...>
> Sender: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:04:28
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> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Pass a parameter to a BAQ report
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> I have some directions on handling this under Files/Epicor 9 Crystal Reports. The example is showing how to pass over record selection information but can be easily modified to handle passing information into the report.
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> Jim Kinneman
> Senior Consultant
> Encompass Solutions Inc
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> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Jason Moyer" <jmmoyer@> wrote:
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> > Does any now how you can pass a parameter to a BAQ report from custom button click?
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