Protocols ViewRpvReport & PrintRpvReport

When Rpv Reports is installed, two new protocols are generated specially to be used by web applications. They are very important for languages like ASP and PHP.

Now that the protocols have been created, Windows will recognize them in the same way that know that "http:" means "open IE" or Firefox (or any other default web browser) and "mailto:" means "create a new e-mail" using the default e-mail client.

It can be complex to open a report from a web page without these protocols because it is needed that your web application can execute a program (Rpv in this case) that is on the client's disk.

However, using these protocols will be very simple to execute Rpv from any browser and/or any html document.

Examples:

View a report
<a href="viewrpvreport:c:\reports\myreport.rpx">Click here to see the report

Print the report
<a href="printrpvreport:c:\reports\myreport.rpx">Click here to print the report


Sending values to control how Rpv starts

Rpv Reports (viewer and RpvPrint.exe) accepts many commands for its start. To specify those commands it will be necessary to replace the space between the name of the file and the commands by a question sign.

Example:

<a href="printrpvreport:c:\reports\myreport.rpx?/c">click here to print the report