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by Ben >> Wed, 1 Jun 2005 5:38:04 GMT

We are writing a report manager application that processes a queue of reports and have had trouble getting this to work as a non-GUI application. Our reports are being printed to a PDF printer to generate a PDF file that is then stored and made available to users so we have no requirement to preview the report. Is it possible to run reports from a non-GUI app? If so, are there any tricks to accomplish this?

by Patwos >> Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:44:59 GMT

The application you're running to produce reports needs to run under a jade.exe in order to support the creation of the GUI objects that make up your report .

eg: Labels, TextBoxes, Frames, etc.

You could of course ensure this application starts when the DbServer starts by using createExternalProcess from a ServerApplication - assuming that is the problem you're trying to solve by wanting to make the application non-gui?

Hope that helps,
Pat.

by T Moore >> Thu, 2 Jun 2005 7:28:37 GMT

If you are just wanting to produce reports you should be able to run this as a GUI - No Forms application. As PAT has mentioned this will need to run in a Jade.exe process.

Torrie