getUserAgentString( )

Identifies the browser used to view a report.

JavaScript syntax

getUserAgentString()

Java syntax

public String getUserAgentString()

Usage

Use in cases when an application requires different code for different browsers. The browser information is available only when the report is rendered, so use getUserAgentString( ) in a report element’s onRender event.

Returns

The browser type in String format. For Internet Explorer, for example, getUserAgentString( ) might return a string, such as:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.1; MS-RTC LM 8)

JavaScript example

reportContext.getAppContext().get("ServerContext").getUserAgentString();

Java example

IServerContext scontext;

scontext = (IServerContext) reportContext.getAppContext().get("ServerContext");

scontext.getUserAgentString();

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