topic Re: SAPWIN% printed on form in Application Development and Automation Discussions

SAPWIN% printed on form

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:31:21 GMT

Hi Experts,

We have developped a smartform and 'SAPWIN%' is being printed on the top left corner of the form. We have not included tis text in the form.

Can you please advise how to avoid that from bein printed?

Thanks,

Vitish.

Re: SAPWIN% printed on form

RaymondGiuseppi — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 05:54:52 GMT

Declare a correct driver for your printer device in transaction SPAD.

Hint: Read first OSS note 1097990 - List of Printer Vendor Wizard Notes

Regards,

Raymond

Re: SAPWIN% printed on form

former_member241258 — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 06:05:52 GMT

USE window conditions

Re: SAPWIN% printed on form

alexander_bolloni — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 11:40:41 GMT

Hi,

you seem to be using a device type like SAPWIN,SWIN,SWINCF for your printer, but the printer is not connected to SAP via a Windows Printserver running SAPSprint or using frontend printing via SAPgui for Windows (LOCL etc).

Those device types are only useful when you have a SAP software in between which converts the data stream to Windows GDI calls for the Windows printer driver.

Regards

Alex

Re: SAPWIN% printed on form

Former Member — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:12:36 GMT

Hello,

Thanks for your reply. We are not using LOCL. We have assigned a printer that has been defined on SPAD. The device type used is HPLJCM1. Can you please advise?

Regards,

Vitish.

Re: SAPWIN% printed on form

Former Member — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:58:48 GMT

Hi, check the program that calls that smartforms, the data in the header of the function of the smartform has something that triggers that code.

Regards

Re: SAPWIN% printed on form

Sandra_Rossi — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 06:53:12 GMT

As explained by Raymond Giuseppi, the "OTF driver" of the device type of your output device (SPAD) is probably defined with both a "SWIN-like" value, and the access method of the output device is not "G" (or "F").

Details: setting a "SWIN-like" OTF driver means that the OTF format of your smart form is converted into SAPWIN format (something like #%SAPWIN%#...) but it won't be interpreted correctly if you don't pass it to a front-end printer (i.e. access method G/F) via SAP GUI (using SAPsprint/SAPlpd).