Re: Calling Word and Acrobat from CL -- MIDRANGE-L

You should be able to pass a UNC path,\\myserver\myshare\somefile.pdf, to
both word or Acrobat without having to have a mapped drive.

Other than that change, I wouldn't bother.
Having the files on the IFS would mean that the users ID & Passwords
between Windows & IBM i would have to match. Or you'd need to use SSO &
EIM. Or you'd need to depend on the users to enter and/or cache their
credentials properly in Windows.

Opening up the app on the user's PC means they control what printer it
actually goes to.

Printing PDF docs from the IFS directly isn't too difficult, as long as you
have newer printers that support direct printing of PDFs. Word documents
on the other hand are another story.

But with direct PDF printing you'd need to either send the doc to a
specific printer every time, or build something that would allow the user
to select from a set of printers defined on the IBM i. It's technically
possible to build something that doesn't require the printer to be defined
on the IBM; likely using HTTP or FTP to transfer the PDF to a network
printer. But you'd have to to that "printer selector" that worked from a
list of network printer names.

Charles

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 1:52 PM Howie, Bill <BHowie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello all,

We have an application that currently uses the STRPCCMD command to do a
"start winword.exe" or a "start ACRORD32.EXE" to open a document related to
the application a user is in so that they can print it. Currently these
documents reside on network drives that require the user to have a drive
mapped on their local PC in order for this to work. I'm wondering if there
might be a more elegant approach to this? I'm initially thinking that we
can change the process to put these documents on the IFS instead of on
mapped drives, but is there a better way to handle the printing of the Word
or Acrobat documents once they are on the IFS than the STRPCCMD with the
"start" command? Basically I believe it just opens the documents in Word
and Acrobat on their desktops and they have to manually print it from
there, so if there was a way to just automatically trigger the printing
that would be even better. As always, any help is most appreciated.
Thanks!

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