| | Device Data (ttaad3100s000) Use this session to define the various
output devices that are used in an LN environment. The
device types to which a print request can be sent in LN are: - Printer
- Logical printer
- Append to file
- Rewrite file
- Direct
- Screen
- Windows Printer
- Windows Server Printer
- Infor Enterprise Report Printer
- External Reporting Services
- Document Output Management
Note This session contains various options for external reporting
through Infor Reporting and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. These options
are not described in this help text. For details about the external reporting
options in this session, see these guides: - Infor Enterprise Server Connector for Infor Reporting Administration Guide
- Infor Enterprise Server Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Administration Guide
For every print request to a LN Printer device an
intermediate print file "tmpxxxxx" is stored in directory $BSE/tmp. For a Windows printer the intermediate print file
"tmpxxxx.bpf" is not stored in directory $BSE/tmp, but the file will be
transferred to the users PC and printed by the LN Windows print
program BWPrint. The session is divided into three parts. You can specify: - General device data:
for each device you must enter basic properties such as the name, description,
type, and character set.
- Data related to
(physical) printers
- Data related to append
and rewrite files
Depending on the device type, you must skip or fill certain
fields. For example, if you define a physical printer, you can skip the
file-related fields. Device The output device code. This device code is a unique code that identifies a
printer. You can choose a unique name for a device, however the name
SMTP is reserved for Microsoft Outlook to send the print file directly to
e-mail and the name FAX is reserved to print directly to a FAX
device. This code is used by a user to send a report to an output
device. Examples: - ASCII (ASCII file)
- NOTEPAD (NOTEPAD file)
- D (Display Device)
- D66 (Display Device 66 lines per page)
- WINDOWS (Default Windows printer)
- pnl0133L (UNIX printer pnl0133 Landscape)
- pnl0133P (UNIX printer pnl0133 Portrait)
- pnl0133D (UNIX printer pnl0133 Direct)
- pnl0133W (Windows printer pnl0133)
Description The description of the output device. It is a good manner to specify the location of the printer
if possible. Examples: - IBM Printer in building X
- HP Laserjet in room Y
- Default Windows printer
- Rewrite to file ASCII format
- Print to Excel sheet
- Print to file HTML format
- Print to Business Objects Enterprise
Device Type The type of output device. Locale Specifies the name of the Tools Super Set locale. A
locale is a collection of the TSS character set definition, the NLS locale for
the system and minimum and maximum values for form and database fields. Each
locale uses a specific range of (multi-byte) characters of the Tools Super Set
(TSS). The user locale belonging to the user who makes a print
request, must be equal to the print locale. If a user tries to select a print
device with a locale different from the user locale, the LN system sends an
error message and the report will not be printed. Examples: - ISO-8859-1 (Western Europe - 8 bit)
- GB-SUN (Simplified Chinese Sun)
- HEBREW-AIX (Hebrew IBM AIX)
Note If you have a Unicode installation, Infor advises you to
leave the Locale field empty if you have chosen Windows Printer as the device
type. In that case BWPrint automatically uses the locale of the Windows system. Intermediate File in XML Format If this check box is selected, the intermediate
print file in $BSE/tmp is stored in XML format. XML files can be reused by
other applications, for example Business Objects Enterprise. See the Argument field for details about printing a LN Report via Business
Objects Enterprise. Driver The printer driver's code. A printer driver is a file that contains settings, such as
control characters, escape sequences, and so on, for a specific
printer. The driver specification is only applicable for UNIX
printers, printer type "Printer" or "Direct". For a Windows printer, the printer driver is stored on a
local PC or on a Windows Printer Server. The UNIX printer drivers can be found on the UNIX file
system in directory $BSE/lib/printinf. This directory contains several one-character
sub-directories for each Printer Supplier, see example list below: - Directory c - Canon
- Directory e - Epson
- Directory h - HP (Hewlett Packard)
- Directory i - IBM
- Directory m - Mannesmann
- Directory s - Siemens
Example printer drivers: - hp_lj4 ( HP Laserjet 4 Portrait printer)
- hp_lj4_lndsc (HP Laserjet 4 Landscape printer)
Device Queue The name of the printer as used by the UNIX printer spooler. The value in the Device Queue field depends on the value in the Device Type field: - If Device Type is Printer then the
Device Queue is the name of the printer as used by the UNIX printer spooler
(for example, pnl0133)
- If Device Type is Direct the print request is not handled by the printer daemon. Therefore
the Device Queue is a UNIX print command with parameters to carry out the print
directly (for example, lp -dpnl0133 -n%d -s %s).
- If Device Type is Windows Printer then the Device Queue is the name of the Windows printer (for
example: \\SRV_NLD_DEV2\PNL0133) . If this field is <empty> the default
Windows printer of the user is used.
- For all other Device
Types the Device Type field
is disabled.
- If Device Type is Windows Server Printer and used as the
placeholder device for client side printers then this field is filled with this
fixed text:
$default_printer_queue
Paper Type The paper type loaded in the
printer's paper tray. The Paper Type specification is only applicable for these Device Type: - Printer
- Logical printer
- Windows printer
Left Margin The left margin for reports sent to a printer. The Left Margin specification is only applicable for these Device Types: Note When you print a report, the Select Device (ttstpsplopen ) session suggests a left margin. This suggested margin
is calculated as follows: suggested margin = the device margin specified in this field + the report's left margin specified in the Reports (ttadv3130s000) session
Form Feed Every Page Specify whether a form feed is sent after each report page. The Form Feed Every Page check box is only applicable for
Device Type: Printer. If this check box is selected, a form feed is sent to the
printer at the end of each report page. If this check box is cleared, no form feed is sent at the
end of the report page. If the page length of the report does not correspond
with the page length of the paper type, the report page
will be printed over several printer pages. Driver The UNIX printer driver that must be used for device types Rewrite file and File append. Shell Command The program, at operating system level, which is executed
before the output is (re) written to a file. For example, this program can be a
conversion program to filter the input data. Conversion Program The 4GL Program field is used to define the name of a LN 4GL program, that
is used to convert the output of an LN Report to another format. For example to HTML
format. This 4GL Program field is only applicable for the Device
Types: Rewrite file and Append to file. The most important available LN 4GL program to
mention here is the conversion program: ttstpconv. This program is able to convert a LN Report to several
formats, for example HTML, RTF, Postscript, etc. To specify the type of conversion to be done, the program
uses Program Arguments, that can be specified in the Argument field. Another available LN 4GL Program is the CMF (Common Messaging
Facility) Print Utility: ttcmfprint. The ttcmfprint utility is able to send a LN Report to an E-mail
address, Fax etc. The ttcmfprint utility always converts the report to RTF
format. See the Argument field for details about the Conversion
Programs. Argument for Conversion Program The arguments you can specify here are dependent on the LN 4GL Program, that
is specified in the 4GL Program field. See this table for the possible arguments: | 4GL
program | Argument | Description | | ttstpconv | ascii | ASCII
(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) format | | ttstpconv | html | HTML
(HyperText Markup Language) format | | ttstpconv | rtf | RTF (Rich Text
Format) format (Portrait) | | ttstpconv | rtf_landscape | RTF
(Rich Text Format) format (Landscape) | | ttcmfprint | outlook | The report is sent to E-mail recipients using MS
Outlook If using argument outlook then it
is mandatory to specify the Device code as SMTP (Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol) The E-mail addresses must be specified in the Path field | | ttcmfprint | fax | The report is sent to FAX numbers If using argument fax then it is
mandatory to specify the Device code as FAX Fax numbers must be specified in the Path field | | <empty> | XML | XML (Extensible Markup Language) used for Business
Objects Enterprise If using argument XML then it is
mandatory to select the check box Intermediate File in XML Format | | <empty> | XML -PDF | The report will be converted to PDF
format. If using argument XML then it is
mandatory to select the check box Intermediate File in XML Format You can add the font size: “PFS=9.0”, “PFS=9.5”,
“PFS=10“, or “PFS=11”. Specify the font sizes known from Microsoft Word. This
functionality is not available when printing to PDF Landscape. Example of the Argument field: XML -PDF:acroRd32.exe PFS=11 %s To display the current number out of the total
number of pages on each page, use this argument: XML -PDF:acroRD32.exe -TP %s | | <empty> | server=<printer server name> port=<port number for ES Reporting Service > | The report is sent to a Windows Server Printer. For
details, see Windows printer devices (OP). Note: You can leave the Argument field blank for a Windows Server Printer, if LN runs on a Windows
server. When you send a report, BWPrint is started on the LN server. | | <empty> | XML -RPT | The report is sent to the LN Report Viewer. For more information, refer to To create a Report Viewer device for session-based reports. Note: You can only use the Report Viewer device to
print reports with an XML report design. | | <empty> | -excel | The report is sent to a Microsoft Excel
device. You can specify additional parameters. This functionality is only available for devices of
type External Reporting Services. For more information, refer to Microsoft Excel devices (OP) in the Infor Enterprise Server Administration Guide. | | <empty> | excelRD | This argument is applicable for the Rewrite file device type. It is used to export a personalized report, through
the Report Designer (ttstppersrep ), to an Excel workbook. See the Infor LN Report Designer Development Guide. |
The arguments ascii, html and rtf can be appended with :<Client program> to start a program on the client PC
for editing the LN Report and can be appended with \<UNIX shell script> to
filter or modify the Report output file, see the examples in the table
below: | Example | Explanation | | ascii | Create ASCII file | | ascii: | Create ASCII file and start notepad (default) | | ascii:notepad | Create ASCII file and activate notepad | | ascii\mfax %s | Create ASCII file and send file to mfax | | ascii\mfax
%s:notepad | Create ASCII file, send file to mfax and activate notepad | | ascii:excel | Create ASCII file and activate MS excel | | ascii:winword | Create ASCII file and activate MS Word | | rtf:winword | Create RTF file and activate MS Word | | html:winword | Create HTML file and activate MS Word | | html:iexplore | Create HTML file and activate Internet Explorer | | postscript | Create PostScript file. Use a PostScript printer to print the file |
For some arguments you can specify Parameters behind the
argument, see this table: | Argument | Parameter | Mandatory | Explanation | | ascii | -8 | No | UNICODE (8 bit)
format | | ascii | -u | No | LSB UNICODE (16 bit)
format | | ascii | -umsb | No | MSB UNICODE (16 bit)
format | | ascii | -win32 | No | Windows 3.2
format | | html | -c <company> | No | Display company name on each HTML
page | | html | -g <logo.gif> | No | Display company logo on each HTML page. The company logo must be in the same directory as
the HTML report produced in order for the logo to be displayed with the
report. | | html | -f
<fontsize> | No | Fontsize | | XML | server <server
name> | Yes | The name of the Business
Objects Enterprise server | | XML | port
<port number> | Yes | The port number
on the Business Objects Enterprise server |
In this table some examples of the arguments and their
parameters are shown: | Example | Explanation | | ascii
-u | Create ASCII file in LSB UNICODE (16 bit)
format | | ascii -umsb | Create
ASCII file in MSB UNICODE (16 bit) format | | ascii
-win32:notepad | Create ASCII file in Windows 3.2 format and
activate notepad | | html -c "MPC
Global" -g "CMP.gif" -f 12 | Create HTML file with company
name and logo, fontsize 12 | | html -c "MPC Global" -g
"CMP.gif" -f 12:iexplore | Create HTML file with company name
and logo, fontsize 12 and activate Internet Explorer | | XML server=cnl01234
port=8999 | Create XML file and send the file to Business
Objects Enterprise server cnl01234 on port number 8999 |
Path The content of this field depends on the Device Type. See this table: | Device Type | Content of Path field | | Rewrite file Append to file | The (default) path of the file you want to
create. If the Conversion Program field contains ttcmfprint then the Path field contains the address where the file should
be sent. For example, an email address or a fax number. In case of multiple
recipients, the field contains multiple addresses separated by semicolons
";". For example: | Device | Conversion Program | Argument for Conversion Program | Path | | SMTP | ttcmfprint | outlook | jsmith@company-x.com;
gbush@president.gov | | FAX | ttcmfprint | fax | +31
342123456; +40 98765432 |
Printing redesign based on RTF specification 1.9.1
(Used by Microsoft Word 2007/Word 12) | Device | Conversion Program | Argument for Conversion Program | Path | | RTF | ttstpconv | RTF:Winword.exe %s | ${HOME}/rtf | | RTFA4 | ttstpconv | RTFL:Winword.exe %s A4 L9 R3 | ${HOME}/rtf | | RTFLTC | ttstpconv | RTF:Winword.exe %s LTC L3 R3 | ${HOME}/rtf | | RTFLT | ttstpconv | RTF:Winword.exe %s LT L3 R3 | ${HOME}/rtf |
| | Infor Enterprise Report Printer | The URL to connect to the report renderer on the Infor Reporting Services
server. The URL has this format: http://< Infor Reporting Services
server>:<port>/IRServices/reportRenderer.vrf For details, see the Infor Reporting
Designer User Guide. |
Change Output file allowed If this check box is selected, you can change the
default path and file at run time when you print to a file. Page Length If you send the output to a file, you can enter the page length
for the output. Note - You must also define
the height of your screen display.
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