Printing SAP forms generated for workflow

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Richard,
Maybe I misunderstood?
You want to print via SAPGUI?  The print icon is only available if you have
a list to print from - e.g. if are in a report list.
 
You can of course add your own commands to start printing from SAPGUI,
e.g. via LEAVE TO LIST PROCESSING option in a transaction (which is what
your generated web transaction is after all).  You would then code your
own report using standard report events after this.  But of course this
means changing each generated web transaction and making sure you don't
regenerate it.   If you haven't used LEAVE TO LIST PROCESSING before suggest
you look it up in the ABAP online help and in SAP Library help.
This topic is covered in ABAP dialog programming courses also.
 
What you might want to do to minimise the changes is to create a
function module that can print the container of any work item, to minimise
the changes to your web transaction. There are some workflow APIs
that are helpful here, e.g. to return a work item's container contents.
 
You also might want to think about whether you need to do this from the work
item
or whether a report that finds and prints relevant work items would be more
effective.
 
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (EBP, BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
SAP Australia
Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
Tel: +61 412 390 267
Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Bellars [mailto:Richard.Bellars at Xansa.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 April 2002 10:59 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Printing SAP forms generated for workflow
 
 
Thanks for the response Jocelyn.
However, we are only using the screens in question in SAP, not using the
browser, which is why we need to be able to create the print functionality
in SAP.
Regards,
Richard
 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SAP Workflow <Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>@GLOBAL  On Behalf Of
> "Dart, Jocelyn" <jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:57 AM
> To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Printing SAP forms generated for workflow
>
> Hi Richard,
> Printing from the web is a little difficult (to say the least) to do from
> the SAP system.
> I won't bore you with the details but its to do with making the link from
> SAP to the Browser.
> Have you tried using your standard web browser print function instead?
> Regards,
>         Jocelyn Dart
> Consultant (EBP, BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
> SAP Australia
> Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
> Tel: +61 412 390 267
> Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Bellars [mailto:Richard.Bellars at Xansa.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 April 2002 3:34 AM
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Printing SAP forms generated for workflow
>
>
> Dear all
>
> We have generated several transactions for various workflow processes
> using
> the standard 'Web transaction' functionality. In SAP (ie as opposed to via
> the web), the GUI for these transactions includes the standard print icon,
> albeit greyed out.  However, even if the icon is activated, there is no
> code
> within the generated programs to replicate the standard print
> functionality.
> Has anyone ever had to incorporate print functionality themselves before?
>
> The workaround is to print a hardcopy of the screen, but this only prints
> what is visible on the monitor whereas we need to be able to print the
> contents of the entire form.
>
> Your help would be much appreciated.
> Best regards,
> Richard
>
> Richard Bellars
> Work Management - Enterprise Solutions
>
> Xansa
> 420 Thames Valley Park Drive            Email:  richard.bellars at xansa.com
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