Re: User Exit after Packing Slip? -- MAPICS-L

Tom,

 As far as I am concerned,  the Word application needs to be launched
interactively.  We have a program here that automatically creates a Word
document to print  quotes.  We use ASNA's AVR and launch it from CSM.

Wil




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Tom,

Hmmm, generating a "Word" document from the AS/400 is going to be tricky,
if not impossible.  I talked with someone pretty knowledgable about this
and he said the only way it could be done is using Java and you would have
to have the capability of setting
up classes in MS to use API's.  A custom program API would have to be
written on the AS/400 to send the right parms to the MS API to generate the
document.  Another thought would be to create your document as an ASCI file
that resides on the AS/400 with an
index to select from.  Are you trying to create MSDS forms with your
packing slips or some other type of information automatically?  You can
always copy the Packing Slip print program, rename it and call it from the
User Exit as well as calling additional
print programs before returning to your originating program.

I do know there were a couple of companies that use Office Vision which
resided on the AS/400 (not supported by IBM any longer though) that they
were able to execute this type of function seamlessly.  Sorry, I can't
provide more details.  Good luck in your
research.

Paola Groeber
MAPICS Consultant

Tom Wood wrote:

> Thanks Paola,
>
> We would like to keep the MAPICS packing slip as is, but trigger the
printing of a Word document at packing slip time.  Do you think this would
still employ the user exit?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PGroeber [mailto:pgroeber@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 1:14 PM
> To: mapics-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: User Exit after Packing Slip?
>
> Tom,
>
> There is a User Exit for printing customized Packing Slips and you could
include trigger to also print a document from that User Exit.  Look under
the COM User Exit section to see the correct name.  User Exits will allow
you to execute one or more
> customized functions.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Paola Groeber
> MAPICS Consultant
>
> Tom Wood wrote:
>
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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> > We would like to trigger the printing of a Word document right after
the MAPICS packing slip is printed, on an item-specific basis.  Is anyone
interfacing Word (or other PC software) with MAPICS?  Not sure if there's a
user-exit that would accomplish?
> >
> > Any ideas appreciated.  Thanks all.
> >
> > Tom Wood
> >
> > IS Manager
> >
> > Fort Recovery Industries, Inc.
> >
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