Another way to preview reports and other file types in Pivotal Client.

Another trivial way to display reports and other file types saved in database in Pivotal Client.

Scenario: display report as PDF file in Pivotal Client by pressing Task Pad item.

Client Task (click event handler):

// Get file content from server
byte[] fileContent = Globals.SystemClient.ExecuteServerTask("Server Task Name", "GetReportContent", new Type[] { typeof(Id) }, new object[] { recordId }) as byte[];

// Create temp file name
string fileName = String.Format("{0}.{1}", Guid.NewGuid(), ".pdf");
string tempFilePath = Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetTempPath(), fileName);

using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(fileContent))
{
 using(FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(tempFilePath, FileMode.Create, System.IO.FileAccess.Write))
 {
  stream.WriteTo(fileStream);
  fileStream.Flush();
  fileStream.Close();
    
  // Open file using windows shell
  Process.Start(tempFilePath);
 }
}

Server Task:

[TaskExecute]
public byte[] GetReportContent(Id recordId)
{
 try
 {
  SystemReport report = this.SystemServer.GetMetaItem<SystemReport>("Report Name") as SystemReport;
  ReportRunner reportRunner = this.SystemServer.CreateReportRunner(report);
  reportRunner.ReportOutputFormat = ReportOutputFormat.Pdf;
  return reportRunner.Run(ReportFilter.SingleRow, recordId, null);
 }
 catch (Exception ex)
 {
  throw new PivotalApplicationCoreException(ex.Message, ex);
 }
}