Selecting and Displaying Spool and Output Requests 

You can display spool and output requests filtered by criteria in the output controller.

If you have chosen immediate printing and also selected the option Delete immediately after printing, the spool requests do not appear in the output controller if the print was successfully completed.

Procedure

Proceed as follows to filter and display spool and output requests:

       1.      Call the output controller (transaction SP01).

       2.      Depending on which type of request you are interested in, choose either the Spool Requests or the Output Requests tab page.

       3.      Select requests by specifying any combination of criteria.

Optional: To change the selection fields that are displayed on the Spool Requests and Output Requests tab pages, choose Further Selection Criteria.

       4.      Choose  Execute to display the spool or output requests that match the selection criteria.

Result

The List of Spool Requests or the List of Output Requests appears.

Example

You want to display all spool requests created between 28.02.2005 and 01.03.2005 for the output device PRINTER1.

...

       1.      On the Spool Request selection screen, enter the date range in the Date Created field and the name of the output device in the Output Device field.

       2.      Choose Execute.

The following list of spool requests appears:

The current status of your request is displayed in the Status column.

 

The status column may contain:

Status	Description
--- (dashes)	The request has not yet been sent to a printer. To print the request, choose  Print or  Print with changed parameters.
Compl. (completed)	The output request has been successfully printed.
Probl., Waiting, messages that are displayed in red or orange For more information about the cause of the error, see the log. To view this, select the spool  request and choose  Output requests. On the next screen, select the output request with errors and choose .	The SAP system could not print your request or could only print part of your request.   This status may be displayed, for example, if the desired printer is not activated. If you cannot solve the problem yourself, contact your system administrator.

For information about other status displays, see the Displaying the Status of Spool and Output Requests.

 

See also:

For more information, see List of Spool Requests.