Automatic creation of a PDF from a customer invoice in Dynamics Ax 4.0

Automatic creation of a PDF from a customer invoice in Dynamics Ax 4.0

 

Good morning,

 

The following code snippet will create a PDF from a CustInvoiceJour record, without any user intervention, using only the standard Ax4 EPSendDocument class.

 

public static void EPSendDocumentTest(Args _args)
{
    EPSendDocument sendDocument;
    CustInvoiceJour custInvoiceJour;
    Filename filename;
    ;

 

    select firstonly custInvoiceJour;

 

    filename = WinAPI::getTempPath() +'MyInvoice.pdf';

    sendDocument = new EPSendDocument(custInvoiceJour);
    sendDocument.parmOriginal(true);
    sendDocument.parmFileName(filename);

    // Make document will run the report and send it to a PDF file with
    // the path specified in filename
    sendDocument.makeDocument();
}

 

The file should end up in C:/DOCUME~1/***/LOCALS~1/Temp/MyInvoice.pdf on Win32 installations. I found this while looking at EP weblet 'EPDocuGetWeblet'. The EPSendDocument class supports a lot of other standard reports, such as quotations, etc.