Making Print Schemes

 

NOTE: This procedure is specific per report type.  You will need to repeat it for each report type you want to set up.

1. With a report open, Click FILE-PRINT (to open Print Commander).

2. Select CLEAR on the left-hand side to clear all previously selected pages or to clear any forms loaded by a default print scheme.

3. Choose the pages or forms to print from the list of available pages to print on the right.  If any pages you want to select are not listed, uncheck “Show Modified Pages Only”.  Double-click on the pages or highlight them and then select Insert on the left-hand side.

4. If you want to print multiple copies of certain pages, double-click or Insert it additional times.  For example, if you want to print 3 copies of Page 1, you will need to double click on it 3 times.  This will put three copies on the left-hand side under  "Pages selected to print".

5. Continue to add pages to the "Pages selected to print" box.  This will be your print queue, customized to this specific report.  They will print in the order listed. 

6. Press Save on the left-hand side to save the Print Scheme. 

a)      The Save Scheme Dialog Box appears. 

b)      Type in a unique name for the print scheme.  For example, you might want to put your color pages in a print scheme called color and your text pages in a print scheme called laser.

c)      If you want this to be your default Print Scheme then click on “Set as Default”.  Now, anytime you go to the Print dialog box for this report type your default scheme will be in effect.

7. Select Print to print the selected pages and exit the Print Commander Dialog Box.

8. You may remove pages from the print queue by highlighting the page to remove from the "Pages selected to print" box and choosing Delete.

 

Print Scheme Disappears

 

A print scheme saved for a UAR is not going to show up in CONDO for example.  So if you saved a print scheme in a UAR and then open a CONDO and try to print, your print scheme will have disappeared.  But it will reappear when you print a UAR.  So the print scheme must be saved for each report type. 

 

The print schemes are saved as *.SCH.  A UAR print scheme is saved as UA2.SCH.  All the UAR print schemes are saved in this one file.  In any case, it is found in TRADATA and could be restored from a backup. If you are on a workstation and delete one of your print schemes, it may delete all the print schemes. If you edit one of the print schemes form a workstation, it may overwrite the others. Until we resolve this matter, it would be best to edit and delete print schemes from your server rather than on a workstation. If this is not possible, then you could try placing your TRA directory on your server and mapping your TRA.INI so that it looks on the server for the AppDir and ExeDrive. Thus, only leaving your TRAPRIV on C. (Note, if you have used the subst command on the server for file index purposes, then you should still be able to edit and delete the schemes without problems on the server.) Note, once you create the print scheme, you might want to make it read only. Locate the print scheme file in your TRADATA directory in Windows Explorer, right click on it, select properties, and set it to read only. This will prevent users from deleting them from the workstations. Of course, before you edit them on the server, you will need to remove the read only attribute.

 

Print Schemes and Drivers

Many customers want to print the active report using the specified print scheme to the specified driver.  For example, they want to print the color photos to the color printer and the text pages to the laser printer.  The following directions will assume you have made separate color and laser print schemes as suggested above, but you can make a variety of schemes with different names. The one drawback at this time is that you cannot use the following procedures if you have digitally signed the report because the macros are inaccessible.

 

1. Open a report in Appraise-It.

2. Make a macro, you can use either a global macro or local macro. These directions will assume that you want a local macro so that you can easily customize the selection of the scheme for the report type. Click in a convenient cell, where you can easily add and use macros. For this example, we will use the UAR and the title cell so click on Complete Appraisal Analysis - Summary Appraisal Report at the top of the report.

3. Click Cell–Common Responses–Add

a)      Type Color and click Ok. Under Response Title you will see the word Color and the curser should be in the large white box so type:

PrintReport "your scheme name", "your printer driver"

 

b)      For example, if you want to print your laser print scheme to a HP LJ 4050, type:

PrintReport "laser", "HP LaserJet 4050 TN PCL 6"

 

c)      (You can find the names of your printer drivers by clicking Start–Settings–Printers.)

 

4. If you want to make a print scheme for PDF reports, follow the above steps. Call the scheme PDF and type:

PrintReport "PDF", "Acrobat PDFWriter"

 

5. If you want to print multiple copies of your print scheme, follow the above steps but use the following macro instead. It will offer 3 copies as the default choice but you can change this on the fly.  Also, some customers have trouble printing multiple copies on certain systems/printers. They may wish to try the following technique and see if this resolves the problem.

 

nCopies% = Val(InputBox$("Enter Number of Copies:", "MultiPrint", "3"))

If nCopies% > 0 Then

While nCopies%

PrintReport "your scheme name", "your printer driver"

nCopies% = nCopies% - 1

Wend

End If

 

6. If you want to print the text in 600 dpi and the photos in 300 dpi to the same printer,

a)      In Start–Settings–Printers–Add Printer, install another copy of your driver.

b)      In Appraise-It’s Printer–Set Up, set the printer driver to the DPI you desire.

c)      And then use the above steps to associate that dpi with the scheme you want. For example, type:

PrintReport "color", "HP DeskJet 550C Print (Copy 2)"

 

7. If you do not use a print scheme name in the macro, you can select the print scheme you want for that driver. For example, if you want the print commander box to open ready to print to the HP LJ 4050 allowing you to select the scheme you want, you would type:

PrintReport "", "HP LaserJet 4050 TN PCL 6"

 

8. After you type in the macro you desire in the large white Common response dialogue box, select Hot Key–F3–for the first macro and Response Type–Macro–and click OK. Repeat this process for the other print scheme and driver you wish to use select F4 for the second one.

9. In the future when you wish to use these macros, click on the title cell at the top of the report, and then click the desired F key. For example, if you want to print your color photos to the color printer, you would click F3 if you had assigned it to your color printer. Then you could click F4 if you had assigned it to your laser