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Select the printer when printing doc

former_member254358 — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:23:35 GMT

Hi,

I would like whether it's possible to select the printer when printing word document.

At this moment I've something like this:

CREATE OBJECT gs_word 'WORD.APPLICATION'.

SET PROPERTY OF gs_word 'Visible' = '0' .

CALL METHOD OF gs_word 'Documents' = gs_documents.

CALL METHOD OF gs_documents 'Open' = gs_newdoc

EXPORTING #1 = 'C:\Temp\doc2015.docx' .

CALL METHOD OF gs_word 'ActiveDocument' = gs_actdoc .

CALL METHOD OF gs_actdoc 'PrintOut' .

CALL METHOD OF gs_word 'Quit' .

FREE: gs_word, gs_actdoc, gs_documents, gs_newdoc .

Can anybody help me'

Thanks a lot.

Regards.

Re: Select the printer when printing doc

RaymondGiuseppi — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:32:43 GMT

You should try to record a macro with word, so you could identify 'oWord.WordBasic.FilePrintSetup'.

Hint: set the printer value and use the option DoNotSetAsSysDefault:=1 you guess why (don't use oWorld.ActivePrinter you wont have the option and would be required to sace curent printer and reset it after completion)

Regards,

Raymond

Re: Select the printer when printing doc

former_member225253 — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:18:47 GMT

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Re: Select the printer when printing doc

Former Member — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:23:40 GMT

Why ?

Re: Select the printer when printing doc

RaymondGiuseppi — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:34:18 GMT

I'm not sure that 'squat' of another question comply with the rules of the forum?

Re: Select the printer when printing doc

Juwin — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:49:12 GMT

You just need to set the ActivePrinter to make this work:

set property of gs_word 'ActivePrinter' = 'PrinterName'.

Add this line, before the PrintOut command.

Edit: If you want user to have the option to choose the printer, then you can give a popup with a dropdown of printer names. List of printer names can be retrieved using RSPO_LIST_FRONTEND_PRINTERS function module. Check RSPO_FRONTEND_PRINTERS_FOR_DEV for example. Once the user chooses the printer from the dropdown, pass that selected value to the ActivePrinter name.

Thanks,

Juwin

Message was edited by: Juwin Pallipat Thomas

Re: Select the printer when printing doc

former_member254358 — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:44:50 GMT

Thanks a lot,

It's correct: set property of gs_word 'ActivePrinter' = 'PrinterName'.

One question. Once I've changed the printer, is it possible to change the printer to the previous default printer?

Regards.

Re: Select the printer when printing doc

Juwin — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:31:32 GMT

You may get the current property before setting a new one. And then once the print command issued, change it back.

Thanks