Kbase P135342: Cannot send multiple background print jobs to MS Word
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
9/22/2008 |
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Status: Unverified
SYMPTOM(s):
Cannot send multiple background print jobs to MS Word
Only the first document gets printed
FACT(s) (Environment):
Windows
Progress 9.x
OpenEdge 10.x
CAUSE:
Sending a Word document to print as a background process is an asynchronous request, multiple print jobs will fail after the first print if the previous request was not processed and completed first.
FIX:
In order to make multiple documents to wait in some sort of queue, you must do the following in your 4GL code:
place all the document filenames in an arrayInclude a FOR EACH statement that would process each filename in the arrayIn your FOR EACH, include a call to another procedure that will check the BackgroundPrintingStatus property continuously until the print job is completeOnce the print job is complete, the FOR EACH will resumeGo to solution P134249: How to batch print multiple MS Word documents in the background using 4GL for details on the 4GL code to write. The solution contains sample code and further explanations.