Creating or maintaining a printer device type
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Open the dashboard and select . The Reporting Services
Administration screen is displayed.
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Select . The Delivery Administration screen
is displayed.
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Click . The Device Types screen is displayed.
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If you are creating a new printer device, click New
Printer. The New Email Device screen is displayed. If
you are modifying an existing printer device, select the name of the printer device that
you want to edit. The Device screen is displayed.
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Specify this information:
- Name
- Specify the name of the device. For example,
printer.
- Description
- Optionally, specify a description for the device you are setting up.
This description is only displayed in the device list.
- Medium
- The default value is Printer. You cannot modify
this field.
- Path to Acrobat
- Specify the location of Adobe Acrobat. You can specify either Adobe
Acrobat Writer or Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Typically, the location of Adobe Acrobat 7 is C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe or for Adobe Acrobat 8
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader
8.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe.
- Path to Temporary Directory
- Reporting Services defaults a path into
this field, for example,
C:\InforLawsonBI\FrameworkServices\conf\printTemp. However,
you can replace this path with the temp directory that you want to use to store the
.pdf files that Reporting Services generates for report distribution.
- Temporary File Expire Hours
- Reporting Services defaults 24 hours
into this field. However, you can modify this value to increase or decrease the
amount of time that Reporting Services stores PDF
files in the temporary directory that you specified in Path to Temporary Directory.
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Click Save.