Have a SSRS Report that is sent to Doc-Link APM for ‘OCR’ so it can be emailed out per an email on the form. With SSRS Reports the Default Render Format is PDF, but APM cannot ‘read’ the PDF because it’s an image PDF. The only way to get APM to ‘read’ the form properly is if the User changes the Output (SSRSRenderFormat) to EMF before they send it to the APM printer.
This APM thing has been in place for years and it’s a pain when they forget to change the Output Format to EMF because APM then errors and cannot process it.
I’m trying to find a way to default the SSRSRenderFormat… I didn’t know where the SSRSRenderFormat value is coming from, I don’t see anything in the Report Style.
I thought about attempting a BPM that would set the Task record’s SSRSRenderFormat to ‘EMF’ if the printer is the APM printer or attempting to customize the Print Form. Thought I would check to see if anyone knows of a better way or more about the SSRSRenderFormat field.
Thanks!
Did you try this?
Make EMF the standard vs PDF
Add to web.config in appsettings for whatever report you want defaulted
<add key="EMFReports" value="POForm;ARForm;RMAForm" />You have to add it to the web.config there is no other way to customize that toolbar at this time easily.
Where is it documented, or how did learn, what keys can be added to the web.config file?
I kind of learned the hard way during an upgrade from E9 to an early version of 10.0. There were a couple of fixes introduced, shortly thereafter, and are in KB0029770 and KB0051061. Rumor was it would because a Report Style setting at some point, but I am guessing that did not survive long once APR came along. I know you can also work around this using APR / Auto-print too.
It is documented in epicor help but I learned it from Dan Pringle from Epicor when he was helping us with APM long ago.
So the key value is a list of ReportID’s.
If I want a specific style to use EMF, but all the others to use PDF, I’d have to make a new ReportID with the style I want to use EMF. And specify that new ReportID in web.config.
That’s OK for Reports launched from a Menu, as you could add a menu item for that specific report.
But what if you wanted one Style of ARForm to default to EMF? Super easy if you have APR (Adv Print Routing). But could you do it without APR?
Thanks everyone! This was perfect!
Great discussion and contributions, couldn’t be clearer!
I can’t believe I put up with this user avoidable error for 4 years… shame on me…
BTW - does anyone know what other key’s can be used for the other values in the Dropdown?
I have a report that always needs to be exported in Excel format and another for CSV.
I’ve tried many and nothing works:
ExcelReports FAIL
Excel FAIL
XLSReports FAIL
EXCELOPENXML FAIL
CSVReports FAIL
I am 99% certain this only works for EMF.