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