(unknown charset) Re: starting Reports from Forms - found a strange difficulty ...

check your reports60_path on your bosses PC.

i'd also recommend softcoding a direct path to your report circumventing the whole issue of reports60_path (and forms60_paths) altogether.

If that doesn't work, gather all your possessions in a cardboard box ...

Jan Gelbrich wrote:

> Hello,
>
> it should be easy and I did it now several times succesfully, but this time
> I see the follwong behavior that I cant explain ...
>
> A Form has a button item to start a row of Reports, passing a short
> parameter list to them.
> On my developement PC, it works fine, on my team members´ PC also. No
> problems at all,
> but when I wanted to show it on a normal PC, the report is not started,
> showing REP-0110.
>
> What is strange is not that message (the manual is clear enough about it),
> but this:
> the Form.fmx and the Reports.rep *are* residing in the *same directory*, and
> on Windows,
> there are also no permission problems to open the files as under unix.
> And *I cannot even reproduce that behavior* on the PCs in my range.
> What is very aking is, that I recognized these problem on the PC of _my
> manager_, who wasn´t
> very amused to see nothing working ... and in that moment I began to ask
> myself if I am going
> to develope hallucinations ...
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> What else besides naming or directory problems could cause the Reports not
> to run
> on a Windows Client and show REP-0110 ? A "system error" could be *anything*
> ...
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> The When-Button-Pressed- Code is this:
>
> --print the contracts
> DECLARE
>    PL_ID  ParamList;
>
> BEGIN
>
>       PL_ID := Get_Parameter_List( 'contract' );
>       If Not Id_Null( PL_ID )
>       Then
>          Destroy_Parameter_List( PL_ID );
>       End If;
>       PL_ID := Create_Parameter_List( 'contract' );
>
>    --Report System-Parameter:
>       Add_Parameter( PL_ID, 'DESTYPE', TEXT_PARAMETER, 'PRINTER' );
>       Add_Parameter( PL_ID, 'PRINTJOB', TEXT_PARAMETER, 'YES' );
>
>    --own Parameter:
>       Add_Parameter( PL_ID, 'UP_Pers_Id', TEXT_PARAMETER, To_Char(
> :Person.Pers_Id ) );
> --thats it
>
> --this List is valid for all the following Reports:
>
>       Run_Product( REPORTS, 'C_Company1', SYNCHRONOUS, BATCH, FILESYSTEM,
> PL_ID, NULL );
>       Run_Product( REPORTS, 'C_Company2', SYNCHRONOUS, BATCH, FILESYSTEM,
> PL_ID, NULL );
>
>       Run_Product( REPORTS, 'C_Attach1', SYNCHRONOUS, BATCH, FILESYSTEM,
> PL_ID, NULL );
>
>       Run_Product( REPORTS, 'C_WageAttach', SYNCHRONOUS, BATCH, FILESYSTEM,
> PL_ID, NULL );
>
>       Run_Product( REPORTS, 'PersonellData', SYNCHRONOUS, BATCH, FILESYSTEM,
> PL_ID, NULL );
>
> END;
>
> BTW: Forms 5.0, Rep 3.0 (yes I know it is desupported since long ago but I
> have no choice, no way),
> C/S environment on Windoze - will also not be changed untill hell freezes
> over ...
>
> If any of the Forms/Reports gurus around here have made some similar
> observations, I would be glad
> to learn from You ...
>
> TIA
>
> Jan

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