Re: Printing multiple invoices from a JSP.

On 11/10/06, Jake M <jakeroc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello wise people;
I am really close to ending a project but am running out of ideas as to
how
to implement the closing part. Okay, I have two .jsp files. In my first
.jsp(printinvoice.jsp), I query the iSeries and bring up all the invoices
to
be printed and in my second .jsp(produceinvoice.jsp) I create the invoice
and the user can hit the print button and print that invoice. Now, the
user
wants to print multiple invoices at the same time. Something along the
lines
of having check boxes by the invoices on printinvoice.jsp.

While I have no .jsp experience I have done some CGIDEV2 programming.  If I
mis-speak about what can be done with a .jsp, one of the experts will
correct me.

In CGIDEV2, you would use something like ...
<input type="checkbox" name="cb_invoice" value="/%invoice_number%/">

When the form is submitted, the values of any CHECKED cb_invoice checkboxes
will be returned to the server.  CGIDEV2 has functions to retrieve all of
them loaded into an array, so you can roll through the array.  I imagine in
the .jsp world there is some way to get at the returned values and process
them.

A quick erfix that might be palatable to the users is to have the "print"
links open a new window (or tab) using the "target=" attribute, so that they
can roll down the list and select multiple items.

Good luck.