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Example MultiValue BASIC Integration

  1. Set your variables
  2. Check the server
  3. Make the document
  4. Send it to OpenOffice to render and print
  5. Set your variables

 

 

! initialize------------------------------------------------------------
tag=\\
val=\\
delim = “/” ; *for unix
template.id = “mytemplate.odt”
outfile.id  = “myfinaldoc.odt”
template.dir= ”/mydir/template/”
outfile.dir = “/mydir/output/”
outfile     = outfile.dir:outfile.id
template    = template.dir:template.id
host        = “192.168.1.1”
ux.user     = “myuser”
level       = “”
verbose     = 0
unix.printer= “HP_Laserjet”
!-----------------------------------------------------------------------
!set tags and values
this.tag = “%customer_name%  ; this.value = “John Galt”       ; GOSUB TagVal
this.tag = “%customer_addr1% ; this.value = “123 Abc Street”  ; GOSUB TagVal
this.tag = “%customer_city%” ; this.value = “New York”        ; GOSUB TagVal
this.tag = “%customer_state%”; this.value = “NY”              ; GOSUB TagVal
this.tag = “%customer_zip%”  ; this.value = “10019”           ; GOSUB TagVal
!check to see if server is alive
CALL bpi.server.checkalive( “192.168.1.1”, ux.user, level, status, verbose, ping.result, echo.result)
IF status THEN
   ! server is alive
   CALL bpi.oo.getstatus( host, ux.user, level, pid, verbose)
   IF pid THEN
      CRT \OpenOffice is busy on the server, can't render the document now.  Try again later\
   END ELSE
      ! OpenOffice is not busy, let's render a document
      CALL BPI.MakeDoc( template, outfile, tag, val, error, message)
      IF (error) THEN
         CRT \Ooops, there was an error when trying to makedoc.\
         CRT \error=\:error:\ \:message
         GOTO Exit
      END ELSE
         !Makedoc worked, lets send it to oo
         CALL bpi.oo.render( host, ux.user,template.id,template.dir, unix.printer, verbose, rstatus)
         IF rstatus EQ 1 THEN
            CRT \Congrats, OpenOffice is processing the print job, go pick it up\
         END ELSE
            CRT \Ooops, bpi.oo.render encountered an error\
            CRT \rstatus=\:rstatus
            GOTO Exit
         END
      END
  END
END ELSE
   CRT \Ooops, the server is not alive.  Host=\:host
   CRT \ping.result=\:ping.result
   CRT \echo.result=\:echo result
   GOTO Exit
END
!
TagVal:
   !Call the bpi.set.tagval which will update the tags and vals array
!Note, param 1 is the block. We are not using repeating data in this example so
| this can be blank

   CALL bpi.set.tagval2( \\,tags, vals, this.tag, this.value, \\, pos)
RETURN
!

Exit:
   CRT \I'm going to exit now\
  STOP
!