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Submit a Document

Most users submit their documents for processing through an application, such as a word processing program or a spread sheet program. If you want to use Submit a document, the document must be ready for processing. For example, if you want to print a document, it must be print ready, formatted for a printer. PCL (Printer control language), TXT (ASCII), and PS (PostScript) files are examples of print ready documents. However, documents submitted to an archive, using the ARCHIVE model script, can be of any type. See Model Scripts: Archive for more information.

 

CAUTION: We recommend that an administrator let users know under what circumstances, if any, they might use Submit a document. If Submit a document is used with a document that is not ready for processing, the output may consist of many pages of unreadable characters.

 

To submit a document for output to a printer/email/fax/other:

  1. Click Documents on the main menu and select Submit a document from the menu options. The Submit Document window opens.

  2. Enter values for the required parameters shown in the table below. When finished click OK.

The following table defines the required, email, fax, and optional parameters and gives the actions you may take.

Parameter

Definition

Action

Document file

The full path and file name of the document you want to submit.

Type the full path and file name or use the click the select icon to find the file. The Title field is filled in automatically, but you can edit it.

Destination

The destination printer, email, fax, or other destination to which to deliver the document.

 

NOTE: If the destination you choose is a printer, be sure that your document is print ready.

Type directly in the field, or click the select icon to display the Select A Destination window. Once the Select A Destination window opens, click on the destination.

NOTE: On the Select a Destination window, in the Search field type all or part of the information for which you want to limit the list of destinations displayed for selection. If you want to search your preferred destinations only, select Preferred Only. See Preferred Destinations for more information.

Title

A text string that describes the document. The title displays in the Active Document list exactly as you enter it here.

If you used the select tool to find the file, the Title field is filled in automatically. However, you can change the text in the Title field.

Submit on hold

This setting determines whether the document is processed immediately or placed in the Active Documents list on hold until released for processing.

Leave the field blank to enable the document to be delivered immediately. Click the box to submit the document for processing, but on hold. The document appears in the Active Documents list with the word hold in the Status column

Form

Type of form on which to print the document, such as letterhead, invoice, check, badge, and so on. The default is stock.

Enter the name of the form. You may also select from the list of form ids that have been entered previously for other documents, or select a predefined form name. See Define System-Wide Form Names for more information.

Copies

Number of copies of the document to deliver to the selected destination.

Enter a number greater than 0 (zero).

Format

Type of format the document requires to achieve the desired appearance, such as font style or page orientation.

Enter the format. For more information see the Format field in, Printer Formats.

Separator page

Whether or not to use one or more pages to separate the document from other documents printed on the same printer. Also called a banner page or header page.

Select one of these options from the drop-down list:

d: use default

0: none

1: before

2: before each copy

3: 1 & 2 in combo

4: after all copies

5: 1 & 4 in combo

6: 2 & 4 in combo

7: 1, 2 & 4 combo

Priority

Number that indicates the processing order for the document.

Enter a priority value from the range set with the parameter lpspriority set in the global tuning parameters. If lpspriority is set to default, the priority range is from 1 - 255, with 1 being the highest priority, 255 being the lowest priority, and 100 being the default. If lpspriority is set to mpe, the priority range is from 1-14, with 14 being the highest priority, 1 being the lowest priority, and 8 being the default.

NOTE: Documents assigned the same priority value are processed in chronological order, oldest first.

Permissions

The permissions setting for the document

Click the select icon to change the setting.

Deactivate

Sets whether or not the document displays on the Inactive Documents list after processing.

The default is checked. The document is moved to the Inactive Documents list after processing.

Click to remove the check and keep the document on the Active Documents list after processing. The document will go into the finished state when processing is complete. You can reactivate the document or deactivate the document and it will be moved to the Inactive Documents list.

Save time

Sets the length of time to save the document in an inactive state in the Inactive Documents list once the document has been processed.

Enter a length of time in the format hh:mm, where hh represents the hour and mm represents the minutes. If Use default value is selected, the Default save time of the destination is used, if one is specified. See the table in Add a Destination. If no save time is set for a destination, it uses the value based on the savetime parameter configured in Global Tuning.

Scheduled

Displays the Schedule Delivery window in which you can set a future time to deliver the document.

Click the select icon to display the Schedule Delivery window.

On the Schedule Delivery window:

  1. Select either Deliver immediately or Deliver at a future time. The default is Deliver immediately.

  2. If scheduling for a future time, select the Date. Select the Time using the 24-hour clock

  3. Click OK.

Data type

Sets the data type for the document.

Click the select icon to open the Select Data Type window. The option you select must match the document type and the printer configuration. If you select Undetermined, EasySpooler tries to determine the data type. If it cannot, the document is treated as formatted ASCII print lines.

ASCII

PCL

PostScript

Restartable PCL

Acrobat/PDF

PCL-XL

PSF/6000 EBCDIC

PSF/6000 ASCII

EBCDIC

Binary

I-Shell

IGP

FingerPrint

ZPL

IBM AFP

Undetermined

Custom

Compress file

Indicates whether or not to compress the file.

Select whether or not to compress the file. The default is no (blank). To compress the document click the box to check it.

Options

For advanced users only:

Sets additional delivery options.

Enter properly formatted print options, such as:

-o length=999

which specifies the number of lines per page.

NOTE:
To learn more about print options, see the section on llp in Chapter 2 of the ROC EasySpooler Developer's Guide.

The following fields are only visible if the destination for the document is an Email type Model Script

Parameter

Definition

Action

Address type

Select whether to email to individual email addresses or an address list.

Select either Email address or Email address list file. Enter the appropriate information in the following field

Email to

Email address of the recipient or an address list.  

Enter either an email address in the format username@domain.com or the name of an address list file, which contains a list of addresses, one line per address. The file must reside in the $LPSDIR/adm/print_scripts/email directory on the EasySpooler server and may require the assistance of the EasySpooler administrator to set up. The directory may contain multiple address list files from which to choose.

Email Body

Content of the message.

The default message is "This report from username is being delivered to you by ROC EasySpooler ." You can change this message to fit your situation.

Email Orientation

Page orientation to use when creating a PDF document. Options are portrait and landscape.

Use this field only if you purchased the Doc2PDF tool and installed it on the EasySpooler server. Select from the options default, portrait or landscape.

The following fields are only visible if the destination for the document is an Fax type Model Script

Parameter

Definition

Action

Fax number

Telephone number of the recipient's fax machine (destination).

Enter the telephone number of the fax machine.

Fax machine

Name of the fax machine to use when sending to the destination.

Enter the VSIFAX name for the fax machine.