Adding a task parameter in a component for enterprise printing

Before you can use this feature, you must set up the IDM file server and its logical folders, and you must enable IDM Enterprise printing.

See the help topics Setting up a file server with logical folders and Setting up an IDM Enterprise printer.

Note: 
  • IDM Enterprise printing is available only in a multi-tenant cloud environment.
  • You can use this feature only on form events that are assigned with a Response > Type of Run Background Task.

In a multi-tenant cloud environment application developers can use the EnterprisePrinter profile parameter to specify an IDM Enterprise printer, to print form reports that are submitted as background tasks. This parameter overwrites the default printer settings of the report. You can define this parameter by editing a form report in the Web Designer. If no IDM Enterprise printer is defined for a report, the report is printed using the default settings.

Note: Alternatively, you can use the TaskProfileEnterprisePrinter parameter to specify an IDM Enterprise printer using an application event. See the help topic Adding a task parameter in application events for enterprise printing.
  1. Open your chosen report form in the Web Designer.
    Note: Before you make any changes on the form, ensure that you have the form checked out.
  2. If there is an existing Print button component on the form, then select that button. Alternatively, create a new button component that you can use specifically to print the form.
  3. Expand the Details panel.
  4. Select the Event Handlers tab.
  5. Expand Generate Report.
  6. Select the GenerateReport event, which has the Response Type of Run Background Task, and then expand the Response group under Event To Handle.
  7. Click the ellipses (…) button for the Parameters field.
  8. In the Profile Parameters field of the Event Handler Parameters dialog box, specify the name of the IDM Enterprise printer, as defined on the Printers form.
    Note: You must add the printer name at the end of the list of parameters in the Profile Parameters field. To specify an IDM Enterprise printer for a report that does not already use the rest of the profile parameters, use commas to represent the other values to get to the tenth parameter. For example, specify ,,,,,,,,,PrinterName in the Profile Parameters field.
  9. Click OK and then click Save.
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