Automatic Print

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I don’t usually do development in Lotus environment and thus appreciate your patience and help.

I’m trying to find a way so that when certain email is sent to a user, e.g. subject contains abcd, etc., it is automatically printed.

I created an agent which is activated after mail arrives. The agent searches for the character string on the subject, then when found do a formula:

Select @command([FilePrint]; “”;“”;…)

When executed, nothing happens. Agent log says:

Formula error: @Command and other UI functions are not allowed with this search type; please select ‘None’ as your runtime target.

Trouble is Target cannot be changed for agents activated after mail arrives.

Anyway to solve this or other ways to do automatic printing?

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Subject: Automatic Print

The agent you’re trying to run is on the server. But, printing occurs at the client level. You will have to create an agent that the user will have to run (button, action menu, right-click) to print the document(s). You can use the following for the user to just print the document without being prompted for anything:

@Command( [FilePrint] ; “”;“”;“”;“”;“”;“”;“”;“”;“”;“”)

Chris Whisonant

http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com

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Subject: Automatic Print

I think the short answer is “no”.

Printing can only be done from the UI (that is a client with a UI must be running). @Commands cannot be done from scheduled agents.

After saying that, there are ways to do almost anything. You might find some C API means of forcing a client to launch or mimic launching a client. Alternately, you could cause it to be opened in a browser or alternate client and print from there. I’m not saying I know how to do it, but there must be a way.