DevExpress XtraReporty Print Without any UI Interaction - devexpress

I am having some trouble trying to get a report to print from a service that does not allow UI interaction.
Currently I can do the following
Dim myReport As New MyXtraReport(myData)
myReport.CreateDocument()
'Then I attempt to do the following
DirectCast(myReport.PrintingSystem, PrintingSystem).Print
However nothing happens when I do this. I don't get any exceptions just no document is printed.
Calling
myReport.Print()
will print the correct document but with UI interaction. What am I missing or is this just not intended to be viable.
I have also tried using the myReport.PritingSystem.ExecCommand(PrintDirectly) but it also doesn't print anything.

You only need to call the Report's Print method:
new XtraReport1().Print();
I've tried this and it works. If it does not work, I suggest that you post a sample in the support center and we will try to help you.

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I don't understand how to make the Client ui aware of a server side change in a document.
My use case is the following : I'm adding a button to my form, that calls a custom document method :
In MyDocType.py, I have :
class MyDocType(Document):
#frappe.whitelist()
def change_some_value_in_doc(self):
self.the_field_i_want_to_change = 50
It work in the sense that the_field_i_want_to_change is immediately updated to the new value.
However, If I hit Save, I get the message "No changes in document". I managed to determine that this is because on the JS side, the form is not marked as "dirty", but despite reading the documentation over and over, I cannot find the right way.
I tried with self.notify_update() which seems to have no effect.
Is it a bug ? Or am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work ?
I'm using frappe v 14.0.0-beta.3
[EDIT]
Actually, I realized that doing
class MyDocType(Document):
#frappe.whitelist()
def change_some_value_in_doc(self):
self.the_field_i_want_to_change = 50
self.save()
Does work in the sense that it save the new value, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for, because my purpose is actually to pre-fill some data with the custom method and leave to the user to complete before saving...
Any help to get me in the right direction would be very appreciated.
To pre-fill data in your form - that you want the user to confirm before saving to the database, you should use client-side scripting (in JS). Changing the value on the server is not going to help you since you want the user to get pre-filled values before inserting a record in the database.

How to hide an item on a report?

I did some changes one of the method on accounting report in OpenERP. My problem now is how can i make some item invisible or delete? In particular, I want to hide the "Liability" and its balance on the report.
I tried something like this on get_lines method:
for report in lines:
if report["name"].lower().replace(" ","") == 'liability':
del report["name"]
del report["balance"]
but when i tried to generate Balance sheet report. It says:
(<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>,KeyError('name',), <traceback object at 0x7f6c4c2903f8>)
Any help is much appreciated.
This is an error that raises when you try to access object key that doesn't exist. In your case "name".
Error you have is "logical" error, simply go into debug and see what you get in report variable inside loop.
Moreover, to change report content (and by report I think you mean pdf output right?) you need to override .rml file. I think you are changing report parser here, which is also ok if you know what you are doing.
Here you can find RML documentation: http://www.reportlab.com/docs/rml2pdf-userguide.pdf
So, to sum: to change report output content override or replace parser, to change structure, hide/add fields override existing report (.rml file) or create entirely new report.
Hope it helped :)
This might not be the good (or perhaps the weirdest) solution to the problem but after reading about .rml and i can't still comprehend this is what i did. Instead of trying to delete report["name"] and report["balance"] i just set it's value into a white space. This time it's no longer shown on the report.

How to detect if an ASP ComboBox is blank.empty

I have an ASP ComboBox that is populated on page load with a list of information and a selected index is set. I want the user to be able to type a new value into the box and run a routine that saves that value.
So far, I've managed to set it so when you run the save routine it can detect the text of the box using;
cboFreeBody.SelectedItem.Text
If the box loads with 'arm' and I change it to 'leg', when I run my routine it grabs the new value and processes it, however if I delete 'arm' and leave it blank when I run the routine the above code returns 'arm', where I'd expect it to return ''.
I'm sorry if I haven't explained myself fully here, I'm rather new to ASP and VB.NET so I'm probably just splurting useless information here, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
I ma not sure but thats might help you..
If com_box.SelectedItem = vbEmpty Then
MsgBox("its empty")
End If
I use the isnullorwhitespace function usually.
if string.isnullorwhitespace(cboFreeBody.SelectedItem.Text) then
else
end if

how to use QTable::editCell()

I don't understand how QTable::editCell() should be used. I am trying to do some error checking based on entries made by user in a QTable as mentioned in my another question.
I would like to give user an opportunity to re-edit the cell which has error. For example, if name column entry has some special characters such as '(', the user should be prompted for the error and the control should go back to same cell in edit mode. I tried using QTable::editCell() in my code as shown below.
Table->editCell(row, 0, TRUE);
name = Table->text(row, 0);
However, this doesn't work as expected. The control doesn't stay in the cell at all and obviously the name is not correctly collected. So, my question is how to ensure from within code that a cell of QTable can be edited so that the edited contents can be accessed immediately in next statement (as shown in above code).
Note: I am working with qt 3.3.8 only.
I don't think you can do that. You'll have to go back to the event loop, and wait for one of the signals (like valueChanged(row,col)) to be fired to re-validate the data.
A blocking wait on a GUI object is often not a good approach (except for modal dialogs).
I know I'm a little late here but you should use the following connect statement with your own custom function to do your specific needs such as below. You can also use this method to disable users from entering in special characters within you custom function. That way they wont ever have to correct undesirable characters.
connect(ui->tableWidget, SIGNAL(cellChanged(int,int)), this, SLOT(customFunction(int,int)));
void updateTable
{
//remove invalid characters
}

"Failed to enable constraints" Error keeps cropping up (seemingly randomly) in my ASP.Net project

I have a weird problem where the "Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contain values violating non-null, unique, or foreign-key constraints." error sometimes pops up when I am trying to build my project.
The line in question throwing the error was auto-generated code in the designer file for the dataset. To find out the offending table, I used the following code:
Try
Me.Adapter.Fill(dataTable) <--Breakpoint here on the offending line
Catch ex As Exception
For Each TRow As DataRow In dataTable.Rows
If TRow.HasErrors Then
Trace.Write(TRow.RowError)
End If
Next
End Try
Funnily enough, as soon as I run the project after putting in the above code and breakpoint, the error disappears. I assume this has something to do with the code being regenerated. All data is presented successfully, and the project compiles without errors.
However, this has happened often enough for me to frustrate me. Anybody know what might be causing the error and how I can isolate it?
What unique constraint are you placing on the datatable and have you verified that the data your passing in doesn't have any duplicates? If this is coming from a shared database perhaps someone else is modifying the data which could be causing the randomness.
Edit
If that code is exactly as what you have (And forgive me my vb.net is not as strong as my C#). Wouldn't it swallow the exception? In C# we need to rethrow the error.
Add a Trace.Write() right before you go into your for loop.
You are probably working with a typed dataset, or have some code configuration on it. Also you might be reading from one table, and then adding data from another.
In any of those cases, you really want to look into any inconsistencies between the schema. If it is a typed dataset / or configured in code, check its definition, and look for anything different from the sql table. If you are reading from 2 different tables, check the definition of both tables.
Figured it out finally!
The reason the breakpoint wasn't being hit was because the code in question was auto-generated, and had the attribute "DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute". In addition, in my VS settings, I had set the debugger to "Just my code".
When I ran the code again, and the breakpoint wasn't hit, I noticed the breakpoint icon had changed to a warning. Hovering showed this:
"The breakpoint will currently not be hit. Breakpoints cannot be set in a method or class with the 'DebuggerNonUserCode' attribute when the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled."
Ouch!
Once I had removed the "Just My Code" debugging option, the breakpoint was hit, and I discovered that one of the rows had a NULL value in one of the columns which had a non-null constraint. Stupid ole' me!
You should use this code before you fill DataTable :
var dt = new System.DataTable.DataTable();
dt.Clear();
dt.Rows.Clear();
dt.Columns.Clear();

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