Customizing

You make the necessary settings in Customizing for Shop Floor Control under Operations → Define Print Control. There you can define the following:

Names for the lists

You can define list ID and list name.

Spool parameter for users

You can define, for example, which lists a user can print, in which plant and on which printer.

For example, you can define that user "A" may only print out pull lists and material withdrawal certificates, while user "B" may only print out time tickets and confirmation slips.

You can also define spool parameters here. You specify the following:

Which printer the list is printed on

Whether it is printed immediately or not

How may days the list should be retained in the spool file, before it is deleted

For collective lists, the immediate printing of shop floor papers is subject to certain restrictions. See the SAP Note 199151.

Reference Order Types

Forms

You can define, for example, which form (SAPscript form or PDF-based form) is used per plant, reference order type, and printer.

By doing so, you can define the layout of the list by defining a SAPscript form for a certain order type, for example, that prints a barcode on the confirmation slip.

By double-clicking on the SAPscript form, you can access the Form Painter. (See Form Painter).

By double-clicking on the PDF-based form, you can access the SAP Form Builder. (See Maintaining Forms with the Form Builder and PDF-Based Print Forms.)

Print Program

You can define, per reference order type, list, and print variant, which print program/print report the system should use and which data should be contained in a list.

You can use the print variant to control which print program is used for which list. A print variant at form level does not exist.

The print report processes the data and issues it using a SAPscript form or a PDF-based form.

The form and print program must match, in other words, if you are using a PDF-based form, then you must also use a print program that supports the output of PDF.

The following PDF-based forms are available for the following production order lists:

You should note that the technical names of the PDF-based forms are identical to those of the SAPscript forms. The corresponding PDF print programs end with *PDF.

List Control for Transactions

You can define which lists can be printed, in other words, which lists, which MRP controller can print in which plant, and in which transaction.

The lists that can be printed can be limited using spool parameters on a user-dependent basis. In other words, you can define that a user can only print certain lists.

The actual number of lists that can be printed is determined by taking both these settings into account. In other words, a list can only be printed if conditions from both settings are met. These two settings clearly define which lists may be printed by which user in which transaction.

In the application, the user can further limit the lists that he or she is allowed to print, or adjust them to suit his or her needs. For example, the user can change the printer or the spool retention period. The user can see an overview of the lists that can be printed in the production order by choosing Order → Settings → List Control .

Defining the printer

You can define the printer per plant, reference order type, and MRP controller.

Process Control for Transactions

You can define, per plant and transaction, whether printing should take place online or in the background.

Table Accesses

Using these settings, table entries can be automatically read from tables that are not directly assigned to the order environment. When you maintain entries you should note that the table you have specified has also been set to active. Otherwise, runtime errors will occur during printing because the table either does not exist, or is not active.

For more information about printing production orders, see SAP Note 11104.

General Prerequisites

If you want to print lists for a production order in the standard setting for the SAP system, you should note the following: