E1 printers

Jaise James

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All,

Currently we define fake printer in E1 to generate PDF output. Once the PDF is generated, user open the file and prints it to which ever printer they want. We did this because we did not wanted to create printers per users and then either restrict them to few printers or make default printers based on user id. We have over 400 Plus users and are constantly growing. In addition, our users are located all over US and use Citrix to connect. By using printers located remotely, I think it will put pressure on E1 servers to use remove printer drivers etc

However, this take away ability of user to use Print Immediate functionality and ability to print multiple pdf from E1, just to name a few

Just checking what others with large number of users base doing to manage printer functionality.
 
Hi

We don't have a large user base, and also use a third party reporting software (Transform, former Formscape)


we have setup a print queue job in formscape called formscape_jdedwards.

we have added this printer to EnterpriseOne as default printer for all reports as a PDF printer (*JDE_PDF) and activated the print immediate for all reports

this makes JD Edwards to print all reports to this printer (generate the PDF and send it to the printer)

this printer takes the pdf and retrieves the job number, then based on the job number, looks in the job status table for the user who launched the report, then on his configured email and then sent the job by email to the user

well, actually we have two kinds of processing

for standard reports that we don need any customization or special output, just behave like told above

for customized reports then formscape precesses the report, maybe generates several outputs, then email the user with the results

in order to determine which reports we have to process with formscape or not, formscape checks a folder structure looking for the report name, if found, then stores the pdf there, then a second job called after the name of the report, will process it and generate the final output

an example of this is our R42565 that we process with formscape, then generate individual invoices that are sent by email to each customer, a continuous report with all the invoices and a summary report that is sent to the user that run the R42565, and a copy of the summary to the sales manager

So this is easy to handle with a third party tool, don't know is a setup like this is possible with only jde

Regards
 
We do essentially the same thing as clmates with the CreateForm product from Bottomline. We email "plain" reports (PDFs) back to the user that submitted it (for those reports they request that for) and others that have to actually processed with a form, we merge and either email the pretty report to the user or in some cases, send to a designated printer (such as checks).
 
Hi We do that for Check jobs where it goes to special printer to be either used for a specific form software or BIP... But we are looking into creating every printer out there for the users and then mapping each user id to their respective printers.
 
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