BI Publisher output delivery on different printers

jdefan78

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Dear Friends,

We want to deliver BI Publisher job to multiple printers located in different place.

For Example: We submit Invoice Job on server, we want to send few invoice on Printer A and remaining few on Printer B like this we need to submit Invoices on different printers, but the BI Job is same.
Is this possible using the bursting feature or similiar features availabe in Embedded BI Publisher. If require we can take CNC help too. We use JDE 9.0

Requirement: Send different orders on the output file to multiple printers based on printer name for each order.

Any help is greatly appreciated. We are badly struck in to this.

Awaiting for your reply !!!

Thanks !!!
 
I believe you'll need to have these run from 2 different versions of the UBE, and each version can call a different Report Definition (which contains the printer to be used).

If you want your user to just have to submit 1 UBE, you could create a wrapper UBE, which in turn calls the 2 different versions of the real UBE.
 
The bursting feature in BIP is still not that robust/mature to handle multiple printer selection. Hopefully it will become more flexible in near future!!!Until then as Don suggests you will have to go the route of creating 2 different versions of the UBE.

The printer delivery in BIP follows the default printer definition in the P98616 application for that UBE/Version to determine what printer to send the output to. So you can define the printers definition specifically for those 2 versions under P98616 ... mapping to different printers.
Hopefully that should work! Let us know.
 
You don't have to use the burst feature to route the documents to two different printers. Here are the steps to accomplish.

1. Create two versions and set the selection.
2. Create Wrapper UBE to call these if you don't want to run the versions directly.
3. Setup printers by UBE|Version or Create PO and add the code.
4. Associate RD to the versions.

If you use wrapper UBE and default printers app, you have to set the printer to parent UBE (wrapper) becuase child UBE's get printer definition from the parent UBE.

You can even route the document to specific printer if you are using the post script printers. You need to do few extra steps. Please let me know if you need any help.

Thank You,
Jayaram
Smartbridge LLC
www.Smartbridge.com
 
Just another option.

1)Burst your document
2)Use the BI delivery email option to send the pdf to different email
3)Setup your mail server to print the mail attachment (different email different printer)
 
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