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📄How To Setup The Backoffice To Print A Scheduled Report

This article covers an overview of the Backoffice Printing and Scheduled Job Setup for printing PDF reports rather than email.

Prerequisites 

  • Access to the Bepoz Server Workstation
  • To access Workstation Settings, the applicable Operator Privileges  will need to be enabled 
    • Operator Maintenance 'General' Tab
      • System Setup: "Access Venue, Stores & Tills" Flag 
      • System Setup: "Maintain Venue, Stores & Tills" Flag 

 

BackOffice Workstation Printing Setup

 PDF Preview CmdLine

  • This is the Window Command that will be used to open the PDF File after it is created

  • The Characters "%1" will be substituted with the PDF filename

  • If this is Blank, the Default Windows PDF application will start

 

Option2 Name

  • This is the second PDF Print option
  • This will allow for the PDF File that is created to be opened by another application
    • This is be used for directly printing the PDF without displaying the PDF
  • This may also be a command file for copying the PDF report to another location
Eg. PDF PrintOut.


CmdLine

  • This is the Window Command that will be used to open the PDF File after it is created
  • The Characters "%1" will be substituted with the PDF filename
  • If this is Blank, the Default Windows PDF application will start
E.g. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe  /t "%1" "HP Color LaserJet CP1215"

In the example above, is the path to the Adobe PDF Reader exe, the instruction to Print and the A4 Windows Printer Name, all in Quotes


Report & Export Dir

  • The default location is a Reports Directory located under the Bepoz data directory as set for this Workstation

E.g C:\Bepoz\Data\Reports

 

Scheduled Job Setup

  • Under System Setup select Scheduled Jobs
  • Click Add Job to create a new job
  • Setup the Job as Below:

Just change:

  • The Schedules for the date and time you need the report to print out.
  • The Global Saved Reports from the drop down
  • The Path to Save Files, if not left as default.
  • The Option: field to make sure its set to Option2 CmdLine, which will use the Backoffice Printing settings.

Then expect your selected reports printed out at the scheduled time.