Automatically save report to PDF with a twist!

[YoBi4Ever]

Hi,

I've read many posting and I'm able to save Access reports, however, even though I type the path and the file name I'm still prompted for these info! I would like to have the report saved automatically. Any ideas PLEASE?

The following is one of the solutions I used: thread705-1182605

'#######################################################
Option Compare Database
Option Explicit

Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)

Private Const maxTime = 10 ' in seconds
Private Const sleepTime = 250 ' in milliseconds

Public Function PrintPDF(ByVal rptName As String, ByVal sFilterCriteria As String, Optional sAutoSaveDirectory As String, Optional sAutoSaveFileName As String) As Boolean

'initialise
On Error GoTo err_Error
Dim clsPDF As PDFCreator.clsPDFCreator 'Initialise the PDF class
Dim strDefaultPrinter As String
Dim strOutputFileName As String
Dim strSaveDirectory As String
Dim i As Long

'set the success variable to true here but it will be set to
'false if the function fails at any point
PrintPDF = True

Set clsPDF = New clsPDFCreator

With clsPDF
.cStart "/NoProcessingAtStartup"
.cOption("UseAutosave") = 1 '1 = True, 0 = False

If sAutoSaveDirectory = "" Then
.cOption("UseAutosaveDirectory") = 0
Else
.cOption("UseAutosaveDirectory") = 1
.cOption("AutosaveDirectory") = sAutoSaveDirectory
End If

If sAutoSaveFileName = "" Then
.cOption("AutosaveFileName") = rptName
Else
.cOption("AutosaveFileName") = sAutoSaveFileName
End If

.cOption("AutosaveFormat") = 0 '0 = PDF
'strDefaultPrinter = .cDefaultPrinter
'.cDefaultPrinter = "PDFCreator"
.cClearCache
Sleep 1
DoCmd.OpenReport rptName, acViewNormal, , sFilterCriteria
.cPrinterStop = False
End With

i = 0

Do While (clsPDF.cOutputFilename = "") And (i < (maxTime * 1000 / sleepTime))
i = i + 1
Sleep 500
Loop

strOutputFileName = clsPDF.cOutputFilename

With clsPDF
'.cDefaultPrinter = strDefaultPrinter
'Sleep 200
.cClose
End With

If strOutputFileName = "" Then
' MsgBox "Creating pdf file." & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
' "An error has occured: Time is up!", vbExclamation + vbSystemModal
PrintPDF = False
Call HandleError("Report " & sAutoSaveFileName & " did not print", "modPDFPrinter_PrintPDF")
End If

'error handler and exit
err_Exit:
Set clsPDF = Nothing
Exit Function
err_Error:
PrintPDF = False
MsgBox Err.Description
Call HandleError(Err.Description, "modPDFPrinter_PrintPDF")
Resume err_Exit
Resume

End Function

'#######################################################

Call PrintPDF("rptInventory", "", "c:\test", "inventorypdf.pdf")

 

[Remou]

It works for me and even creates a directory if it does not exist. Have you downloaded the latest version of PDFCreator? Does c:\test exist, and if not, does the user have permissions for C:\ ?

 

[YoBi4Ever]

Yes, they all exist!!!
I went to adobe pdfwriter under pritners and changed some settings and it worked! I don't see the relationship but it worked.

 

[Remou]

There are those commented lines ... ?