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

Depending on how your user's PCs are set up ... you could possibly serve them up by providing the user a URL pointing to the document in question. The actual file location would be mapped by the Apache directives. The apps involved will normally be the correct ones for files of this type. Has the advantage, among others, that folks don't have to be using Windows machines with specific apps. It would work if they ran Macs or Linux boxes or used an alternative to Word for example. These kinds of links can be made "hot" on a green screen I believe - although I've never done it.

Jon P

On Feb 11, 2022, at 3:51 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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