Variable print file name

[Bill Randall]

PDF:|cat>/u/appl/fpmerge/ReporteFP/$$.pdf

Bill

On 4/8/2015 5:36 PM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> How can I set the destination file to a variable name?
>
> In this case I have created an entry on printer maintenance screen called
> Kentest.
> Type is :fpml   Destination : PDF:/u/appl/fpmerge/ReportsFP/ xtest.pdf
> That works fine.  But how can filepro create a variable file name in that
> directly?
> Of course this is only from printer maintenance screen.
>
> Ken Wakeman
> ----- ---- ----------
>
>       I hope I correctly snipped all the code out of your HTML message.
> (above).
>
>       You're not telling us which version of filePro you are using, nor which
> operating system (Unix, Windows, etcetera).  However, here is some code that
> works for me to print a customer statement on filepro 5.7.03 running on Sco
> Openserver 6.  The processing is attached to a form called statementPDF.
> (That is the PDF version of an invoice form for one of my customers.)
>
>       You could write this as a subroutine and skip all the XG XH nonsense.
> XA allows the billing clerks to name the output processing whatever they
> want.  Statements get deleted within a few seconds, right after they are
> emailed, so I'm not too worried  about duplicate PDF names.
>
> 5  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>       þ If: XG=""
>       Then: input popup xa "Please type in a SHORT description of this
> statement:"
> 6  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>       þ If: XG=""
>       Then: XB=xlate(xa," '&,","____")   'Remove odd characters from title
> 7  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>       þ If: XG=""
>       Then: XG(60,*,g)="/u1/images/" {XB {"_Statement.pdf"
> 8  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>       þ If: XH=""                        'Create the file
>       Then: system "touch" <XG
> 9  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>       þ If: XH=""                        'Chmod it
>       Then: system "chmod a+rw" <XG
>   10  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>        þ If: XH=""                        'Chown it
>        Then: system "chown filepro" <XG
> 11  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>        þ If: XH=""
>        Then: PRINTER "PDF:>" {XG          'Create the PDF statement
>   12  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>         þ If:
>         Then: XH(1,*,g)="X"               'Make sure PDF line only executes
> once
>
> Mike Schwartz
>
>
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