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Jay Potter
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Has anyone figured out how to assign passwords to a PDF without doing it via a zip process?

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I dont think it is possible.

One weird option in case if yours is a simple PDF report and will be viewed online - Have to check with scheduling...

Use ARPASSWORD and make your report AHTML and ask the user to export it to PDF.


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I don't believe that WebFOCUS supports this.

I would suggest using a third party tool to pw protect the document.


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Thank you for both replies. I did not think that it was possible after reading other posts. I was hoping somebody had found a work around.

Unfortunately the user would not be viewing the report online before saving. I will see about using the zip process.


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I have been looking into using a C# DLL. We presently within a C# program can password protect a pdf. Has anyone ever called a C# DLL from a fex?


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...Has anyone ever called a C# DLL from a fex?

The RStat product offered by IBI calls a C language DLL from within a fex. It is done in a COMPUTE statement:

COMPUTE SCORE/A3 = audit_score(AGE, EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, MARITAL, OCCUPATION, INCOME, GENDER, DEDUCTIONS, HOURS, 'A3');

In this case, there are parameters being passed to the DLL, and it returns an "A3" type result.

This happens for every line in a report. That's not what you want, but it shows that fex files can call DLLs. And the DLL and fex file in this example exist on the Reporting server.


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What folder did you place your dll? Do you have to register it?


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What folder did you place your dll? Do you have to register it?

RStat is still new to me, but I think the DLL and fex file can go in either a Content folder or on the Reporting server.

The DLL is not registered with Windows that I am aware of; I think it just needs to be in the same folder as the fex file. Or maybe a path can be specified in the fex, I'm not sure at this point.

You could try creating a C# DLL that returns a number or alpha string, then try to call it using something similar to the COMPUTE example I gave earlier. Then you would at least know that you can call a DLL from a fex without having RStat. That might get you closer to what you want to do.


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I would have though that a java program may be the easiest to pw protect a PDF, and there are many out there, and easily called with an OS command


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Thank you for all of these suggestions. I will be looking into creating the DLL and trying it out.


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