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                      PGroeber
                      <pgroeber@bellsou        To:       mapics-l@midrange.com
                      th.net>                  cc:
                      Sent by:                 Subject:  Re: User Exit after 
Packing Slip?
                      mapics-l-admin@mi
                      drange.com


                      09/10/2002 01:20
                      PM
                      Please respond to
                      mapics-l






Wil,

What release of MAPICS are you on - R6.5?  Tom didn't indicate he even has
CSM - guess we need
more info.

Paola Groeber
MAPICS Consultant

WRamos@shur-lok.com wrote:

> 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
>
>                       PGroeber
>                       <pgroeber@bellsou        To:
mapics-l@midrange.com
>                       th.net>                  cc:
>                       Sent by:                 Subject:  Re: User Exit
after Packing Slip?
>                       mapics-l-admin@mi
>                       drange.com
>
>                       09/10/2002 11:20
>                       AM
>                       Please respond to
>                       mapics-l
>
> 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.
> > > --
> > > --
> > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> > > 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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