Reporting: Example of using API Methods to bring in Unit's Warranty information

AyaNova 7 (legacy version) Reporting & Development Additional Sample Report Templates & Tutorials
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In this example, we want to show in a detailed report template the unit’s warranty information that displays in the service workorder entry screen

  1. Download and import the sample report template [UNIT WARRANTY INFO Sample report.zip](http://www.ayanova.com/Downloads/Reporttemplates/UNIT WARRANTY INFO Sample report.zip) and review its scripts for an example of use. You will also want to refer of course to the http://api.ayanova.com business object library.

  2. As always, declare the namespace in the Before Print for the whole report in xtraReport1 " "

using GZTW.AyaNova.BLL;
using CSLA;

  1. Example of what is in the Before Print script for the detail band where the unit datafields are:

private void Detail2_BeforePrint(object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintEventArgs e)
{
///Only do this if there is a unit selected
if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(DetailReportItem.GetCurrentColumnValue(“LT_Unit_Label_Serial”).ToString()))

{

//The Unit object does have a method to retrieve it’s ID from it’s serial number however the serial number column
//in the report contains other text besides the serial number so it’s not possible to use that method, instead we’ll get it from the workorder:

//first get the id of the Item - note the “DetailReportItem” I’m calling GetCurrentColumnValue on the woitem id
Guid gWOItemID=new Guid(DetailReportItem.GetCurrentColumnValue(“ID”).ToString());

//now that we have the Item we can fetch the workorder from the woitem id
Workorder w = Workorder.GetWorkorderByRelativeNoMRU(RootObjectTypes.WorkorderItem, gWOItemID);

//now get the correct workorder item from this workorder
WorkorderItem wi = w.WorkorderItems[gWOItemID];

//Now get the unit on this workorder item
Unit u = Unit.GetItemMRU(wi.UnitID,false);

//to display the unit's warranty info, need to 
	



{
            string sDate = "";
            if (u.WarrantyExpiryDateResolved != null)
                sDate = ((DateTime)u.WarrantyExpiryDateResolved).ToLongDateString();
            switch (u.WarrantyStatusResolved)
            {
                case WarrantyStatus.None:
                    label3.Text = string.Format("{0}", "Unit is not warrantied." );
                    break;
                case WarrantyStatus.Expired:
                    label3.Text = string.Format("{0}{1}", "Unit's warranty expired: ", sDate);
                    break;
                case WarrantyStatus.Active:
                    label3.Text = string.Format("{0}{1}{2}{3}","Unit is warrantied until: ", sDate, " with terms: ", u.WarrantyTermsResolved);
                    break;
            }
    }

}

}