To follow up the post about writing a text file with Automation I would also like to post about reading a text file with that same Automation. Now we add the automation automation ‘Windows Script Host Object Model’.File. First you need to create a file system object ‘Windows Script Host Object Model’.FileSystemObject.
In Classic Client we are used to use the variable type File to write to a text file. In these cases we have had to convert the Icelandic characters from CP850 to ISO-8859-1 for this to be saved correctly.
I have been working on a solution for file download. I am now able to download both binary and text files both via http and ftp and both with Classic Client and Role Tailored Client.
This walkthrough demonstrates how to develop a codeunit that creates a file on Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server, opens the file, writes some data to it, and then downloads that file to a RoleTailored client.
In Dynamic NAV it is possible to use the Automation “‘Microsoft XML, v6.0′.XMLHTTP” to download files.
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