Report printing sequence with Anzio, local print

[Richard Kreiss]

Not an Anzio user but steps 1 & 2 can be reversed if the collection of data is from a clerk session and the use a system call to run the report. 

Richard
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On Jul 31, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a user who is experiencing a problem that others have before, and I 
> need some help in telling him how to deal with it. It involves Anzio's 
> flush timer and the sequence of operations in the filePro program.
> 
> If the program has this sequence, there is a problem:
> 
> 1) Initiate (open?) the print job
> 2) Ask the user some questions
> 3) generate the report data
> 4) close the job
> 
> The reason for the problem is that during step 2, Anzio's Flush Timer 
> elapses, and Anzio terminates what is at that point an empty job. (The 
> Flush Timer is used to determine when a job is finished, and needs to be 
> flushed.)
> 
> If, instead, the first two steps are reversed, it works fine. That is, the 
> program does not initiate the print job until it has collected all the 
> necessary information from the user.
> 
> Do I have this right? What's the correct terminology for step 1? Is there 
> any reason this change would be difficult or impossible?
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
> Regards,
> ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
> 
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