Field help (AIMIMPRIME)

This field defines the type of issue associated with the report. It can take the following values:

• Preview in this case, a Crystal Reports window will open to display on the screen the print output. It is then possible to send it from the local workstation to a printer, or to a file with various formats.
• Printer in this case, the entry of a printer network path will be required. This printer can be a Windows printer accessible over the local network from the current workstation, or a printer accessible from the print server. In the case where a local printer is used, the network name of the printer can be entered directly in the corresponding column, or the printer can be selected from the selection window (if this selection is not performed by the time the print is launched, the print window will open automatically). But it is also possible to use a print server accessible via the network (this supposes that a print server has been installed). In this case, the network name of the printer and the name or the server are required (in the form of a network server name, followed by a service number if it is not the same : It must be separated from the server by a colon. This will give, for example, a syntax of the type myserver.adonix :1802).
• a message : in this case, it passes locally via Crystal Reports and by the MAPI interface to the default e-mail system of the user, in order to send a message with the report attached. The recipients of the e-mail, the format of the attachment and the text of the e-mail must then be entered. The possible formats are mentioned in a list defined by the local menu 91, and they include among others office formats (data processing and spreadsheet), generic formats ((HTML, ascii, PDF) and a format specific to Crystal Reports.
• a file : A file is then created in an accessible directory on the network from the client workstation. The same format entry as before is required, then a name for the file to be created, in a directory that can be chosen from the normal Windows selection window.
• the printer / file : this defines a print file. Usually created with the extension prn, these files are an exact image of the data sent to the printer, but stored on the hard disk (the format depends on the printer driver being used). This allows, for voluminous prints that will be outsourced, the sending of the file to be printed by the outsource supplier using the suitable driver. The printing of such a file can then be done directly using the Windows commandtypefile.prn>\\server\printer (if file.prnis the resulting file and \\server\printer is the network address of the printer). The name of the file to be created is entered in the file section that follows.