topic Re: Generate Tabular Report in PDF?? in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions

Generate Tabular Report in PDF??

FrankRoberts — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:23:52 GMT

I would like to create some relatively simple pdf reports from attributes found in an AGS service. I know that ArcMap has some reporting capability out of the box, however I'm not seeing any way to access these reports via Flex/AGS. I've done some searching of the forum and I'm not finding much.

Am I going to need to use AlivePDF and build my own report that way?

I was also thinking I've seen some uses of Python and geoprocessing tasks to generate reports, but maybe that is more advanced/server intensive then what I really need.

Any ideas would be wonderful,
Frank

Re: Generate Tabular Report in PDF??

Drew — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:35:46 GMT

Frank,

The way I do is by sending the layer ID and Object ID (or any unique identifier) from the Flex app to a custom .NET web service. Then my web service uses the ESRI SOAP API to query that feature and get it's attributes and pushes them into a Microsoft Report (designed using Visual Studio). Once the report is complete in code I stream the bytes to an .ashx handler file and send it back to the client.

It sound complicated but if you know ASP.NET it can be accomplished quite nicely.

Drew

Re: Generate Tabular Report in PDF??

AaronNash — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:56:02 GMT

I did it using alivePDF and an ArcServer web service. I am just running a query on the web service, returning the values into a datagrid and then publishing the selected value into a PDF report. There was a thread on it in the Flex Viewer forum here. I did not use any geoprocessing or phython just some code found in the sample code section.