MAPI , Crystal report activex control

Hi All,

Please could someone tell me how to fax a crystal report from VB if a crystal report is already available (the formatting of the crystal report is important)

Also I would like to specify the recipients fax number from within the application itself.

Specifying MS Fax as the printer(for the crystal report control) invokes the fax dialog box but i want to avoid this.Is there a work around using MAPI or something else?

Thanx in advance for your help
radhika

Hi.

This is a solution to a problem like yours. I have reports in Access and I wan to fax them directly. I have a Client of Microsft Fax Server in my computer that send the faxes trough a server. When we use Outlook to send the reports they loose the images and other things and when we print directly to the fax printer the dialog run. May be this is not the best solution, but it work, I didn't find other.

The main idea is change de default printer to the fax printer and create a file that the fax driver use.

My English is not good, but I hope you understand me.

Gnomo


Option Explicit

'MS Windows API Function Prototypes
Public Declare Function GetProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetProfileStringA" (ByVal lpAppName As String, ByVal lpKeyName As String, ByVal lpDefault As String, ByVal lpReturnedString As String, ByVal nSize As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function WriteProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias "WriteProfileStringA" (ByVal lpszSection As String, ByVal lpszKeyName As String, ByVal lpszString As String) As Long
Public Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long
Public Declare Function WritePrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias "WritePrivateProfileStringA" (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, ByVal lpKeyName As Any, ByVal lpString As Any, ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long

Global Const WM_WININICHANGE = &H1A
Global Const HWND_BROADCAST = &HFFFF

Public Function FaxReport(strReportName As String, strFaxNumber As String) As Boolean
Dim strPrinter As String

On Error GoTo Error_FaxReport

FaxReport = False

strPrinter = ChangePrinter("Fax in SERVER,FWSERVER,\\Server\Fax")
If CreateConfigFile(strFaxNumber) Then
DoCmd.OpenReport strReportName, acViewNormal
FaxReport = True
End If

Error_FaxReport:
strPrinter = ChangePrinter(strPrinter)
End Function

Public Function ChangePrinter(strPrinter As String) As String
Dim strBuffer As String * 254
Dim iRetValue As Long

' Retreive current default printer information
iRetValue = GetProfileString("windows", "device", ",,,", strBuffer, 254)
ChangePrinter = Left(strBuffer, InStr(strBuffer, Chr(0)) - 1)
If WriteProfileString("windows", "device", strPrinter & Chr(0)) Then
iRetValue = SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_WININICHANGE, 0, ByVal "Windows")
End If
End Function

Public Function CreateConfigFile(strNumber As String) As Boolean
Dim intFileNumber As Integer

CreateConfigFile = False

On Error GoTo Error_CreateConfigFile

intFileNumber = FreeFile
Open "C:\My Documents\" & strNumber & ".ini" For Output As #intFileNumber
Print #intFileNumber, "[Fax transport]"
Print #intFileNumber, "SendCoverPage = N"
Print #intFileNumber, "LocalCoverPage = N"
Print #intFileNumber, "Name = My Name"
Print #intFileNumber, "Fax=+n (nn) nnnnnnnnn" 'Source fax number
Print #intFileNumber, "Company="
Print #intFileNumber, "Mailbox="
Print #intFileNumber, "Title="
Print #intFileNumber, "Dept="
Print #intFileNumber, "Office="
Print #intFileNumber, "WorkPhone="
Print #intFileNumber, "HomePhone="
Print #intFileNumber, "Subject="
Print #intFileNumber, "Note="
Print #intFileNumber, "TimeSent= "; Format(Date, "short date") & " " & Format(Time, "Long Time")
Print #intFileNumber, "BillingCode="
Print #intFileNumber, "SendStart = 0"
Print #intFileNumber, "SendEnd = 0"
Print #intFileNumber, "CodePage = 1252"
Print #intFileNumber, "CoverPageName="
Print #intFileNumber, "Email = xxxxxx" 'Email to receive fax reports
Print #intFileNumber, "Recipients = 1"
Print #intFileNumber, ""
Print #intFileNumber, "[Recipient0]"
Print #intFileNumber, "Name='0 " & strNumber & "'"
Print #intFileNumber, "Fax=0 " & strNumber
Print #intFileNumber, "Company="
Print #intFileNumber, "Street="
Print #intFileNumber, "City="
Print #intFileNumber, "State="
Print #intFileNumber, "Zip="
Print #intFileNumber, "Country="
Print #intFileNumber, "Title="
Print #intFileNumber, "Dept="
Print #intFileNumber, "Office="
Print #intFileNumber, "HomePhone="
Print #intFileNumber, "WorkPhone="
Print #intFileNumber, ""
Close #intFileNumber
Call WritePrivateProfileString("Fax Transport", "File", "C:\My Documents\" & strNumber & ".ini", "C:\WINDOWS\fwsrvdlg.ini")
CreateConfigFile = True
Error_CreateConfigFile:
Close
End Function