Output Options F/M (SMF620)

Use this program to set up output options for printing reports with multiple outputs. You can print a report to a printer, the viewer and to a file all in one process. After setting up output options and properly configuring reports, you can print reports to Excel, XML (Can print to TCP/IP port), ASCII Delimited (Can print to TCP/IP port) files, other (programmer defined files), or to an HTML file.

Reports with multiple output options include:

·   ICR710: Stock Status Report

·   GLR710: Trial Balance/Detail Ledger

·   ARR740: Customer Listing

·   APR750: Vendor Listing

Output options allow you to expand your reporting capabilities beyond defining a printer (in Printer F/M). Advantages to using output options are:

• Printing to new output types
• When creating a report as a file, an administrator can control file output to always be placed on the client PC or always on the server
• When creating a report as a file, an administrator can control what the filename will be with run-time replacements (see below for an explanation of what these are).
• Output can be customized with open, close, post-open, pre-close, and post close procedures.
• Regular printers (printers set up in Printer F/M) can still be used.
• Output can be sent to a PDF viewer.
  

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For more information how to use maintenances, refer to the following topics:

How to use file maintenance programs