Email report in CSV instead of PDF format

[Ernst]

Am scheduling a report via a plugin, but the customer wants the file in CSV format, instead of PDF format.

Has anybody managed to get this to work. Thx.

Im using 7.0.175 and mostly vb .net.

[Mike.Sheen]

Am scheduling a report via a plugin, but the customer wants the file in CSV format, instead of PDF format.

Has anybody managed to get this to work. Thx.

Im using 7.0.175 and mostly vb .net.

Hi Ernst,

If you take a look at this topic, you should be able to just change the the line which reads:

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printReportObject.CrystalReportObject.ExportToDisk(CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, FileName);

To:

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printReportObject.CrystalReportObject.ExportToDisk(CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.CharacterSeparatedValues, FileName);

If the report is a stored procedure based report, then I think it would be vastly more efficient to simply call the stored procedure and write away the results to a csv.

Mike

[SBarnes]

Hi Ernst

You can actually get ServiceStack to do the heavy lifting to produce the CSV see http://docs.servicestack.net/csv-format if the report is a stored procedure as Mike suggested.

Its T4 Templates can also create the stored procedure code for you, see https://books.google.com.au/books?id=x9hpBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=servicestack+t4+templates&source=bl&ots=dJ3MSKNy6A&sig=-txxhkU4d-du5ZO85Zynf5GjeRU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB042Rm8ncAhXBdN4KHQsFBLEQ6AEwBnoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=servicestack%20t4%20templates&f=false on how to do this.

[Mike.Sheen]

You can actually get ServiceStack to do the heavy lifting to produce the CSV

Indeed! You can also get ServiceStack to do the same for reading a CSV - as Jiwa now ships (since 7.1) with the ServiceStack libraries, any plugin can leverage that to read a CSV into a List<T> as shown in the plugin "Bendigo Bank Cashbook CSV Imports" included as part of 7.2:

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List<BendigoBankSimpleCSVTransaction> transactions = ServiceStack.Text.CsvSerializer.DeserializeFromString<List<BendigoBankSimpleCSVTransaction>>(sb.ToString());