Printing directly to PDF in AX

References: AxaptaPedia

To achieve this task, we need to set some values to the printing settings before running the report like this:

// Variables
PrintJobSettings    printJobSettings;
ReportRun           myReportRun;

...


// Getting the report settings
printJobSettings = myReportRun.printJobSettings();

// Setting our parameters
printJobSettings.setTarget(PrintMedium::File);
printJobSettings.preferredTarget(PrintMedium::File);

printJobSettings.format(PrintFormat::PDF);
printJobSettings.preferredFileFormat(PrintFormat::PDF);

printJobSettings.fileName("c:\\attachment.pdf");

// Saving values
myReportRun.unpackPrintJobSettings(printJobSettings.packPrintJobSettings());

// Running the report
myReportRun.run();

Before running the report, we can set query's values:

query = myReportRun.query();
qbds = query.dataSourceNo(1);

qbds.range(1).value(_custTable.CustAccount);
qbds.range(2).value("");
qbds.range(3).value(queryvalue(NoYes::Yes));

myReportRun.run();

NOTE: For using a PDF Printer like "PDFCreator", simply set the deviceName like this:

myReportRun.deviceName("PDFCreator");