Publish Non-Lawson Report to Print Manager?

 4 Replies
 0 Subscribed to this topic
 18 Subscribed to this forum
Sort:
Author
Messages
Kyle Jorgensen
Veteran Member
Posts: 122
Veteran Member
New Poster
New Poster
Congrats on posting!
Is it possible to 'publish' a non-Lawson text file to a user's Print Manger?
Specifically, we have a 'batch-like' process flow that creates a print file and an error file.
I know we can email users the reports from process flow, but it would be nice if the reports could be displayed/accessed through the user's print managers.
Kwane McNeal
Veteran Member
Posts: 479
Veteran Member
Kyle, look at loadrpts in GENDIR/bin on LSF. This should do what you're looking for.
Greg Moeller
Veteran Member
Posts: 1498
Veteran Member
MVP
MVP
You're an MVP!
New Poster
New Poster
Congrats on posting!
Engaged Reader
Engaged Reader
You are an engaged reader!
Avid Reader
Avid Reader
Avid Reader art thou!
Yes! We do this all the time here.
copy the file into the standard prtmgr directory structure, then ---
loadrpts -s dir -p prodline
Kyle Jorgensen
Veteran Member
Posts: 122
Veteran Member
New Poster
New Poster
Congrats on posting!
Greg,
When you say "copy the file into the standard prtmgr directory structure", since the report isn't from a 4GL program...where exactly do you copy it to?
Is the "-s dir" directory the fully qualified directory path for where you copy the file to?
Greg Moeller
Veteran Member
Posts: 1498
Veteran Member
MVP
MVP
You're an MVP!
New Poster
New Poster
Congrats on posting!
Engaged Reader
Engaged Reader
You are an engaged reader!
Avid Reader
Avid Reader
Avid Reader art thou!
Kyle: I think I'd just make up a path, but the -s option tells it to look in the $LAWDIR/print directory structure...
So, you'd have to make up something there. If, it were me, I'd come up with a generic user id, and a bogus "job" name to copy it to, the same as what a currently working Infor/Lawson job does.
$LAWDIR/print/genericuser/bogusjobname/1/filename.txt
Then you could conceivably run loadrpts with even more options:
loadrpts -s -u genericuser bogusjobname -p prodline --- that way isolating it to just look in one spot.