changing filename of PDF-Report

Hello,
we use the Report Services to generate bills from our orders. Therefor a
url with all the report parameters is created and send to the internet
explorer which displays the report with the pdf plugin (standard).
Our problem is that all reports have the same name (for example bill.pdf).
Is it possible to send a paramter (maybe a system one) which the report
server is using and named the file like it?
For example we give in the url &reportname=bill001 and then the file
generated names bill001.pdf?
Thanks for all answers.Hi Thomas,
We are using RS to generate pdf files, but we are just streaming directly
the resulting pdf to the client browser.
So, the result of the Render method of the ReportingServices object (which
is of type "array of bytes" ) gets passed to the browser using
Response.BinaryWrite(result).
I think you could use something to write the array of bytes to a pdf file -
and at this step you can choose the name you want for this pdf file.
Example:
Dim fs As New System.IO.FileStream("c:\customers\BILL001.pdf",
System.IO.FileMode.CreateNew)
' Create the writer for data.
Dim w As New System.io.BinaryWriter(fs)
' Write data to Test.data.
Dim b() As Byte
b = rs.Render(...parameters for report rendering)
w.Write(b)
w.Close()
fs.Close()
Hope this helps,
Andrei.
"Thomas Weiler" <Thomas.Weiler@.bigfoot.de> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> we use the Report Services to generate bills from our orders. Therefor a
> url with all the report parameters is created and send to the internet
> explorer which displays the report with the pdf plugin (standard).
> Our problem is that all reports have the same name (for example bill.pdf).
> Is it possible to send a paramter (maybe a system one) which the report
> server is using and named the file like it?
> For example we give in the url &reportname=bill001 and then the file
> generated names bill001.pdf?
> Thanks for all answers.