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Background documentationDocument Maintenance

 

You use this activity to define production-related documents such as labels and travelers that can be printed for an SFC number, shop order, process lot, container, or inventory ID records.

This activity allows you to specify the information that is available for printing and also the information needed to print the document to a third-party printing package. For more information, see Setting Up ADS Printing.

Fields

The following tables describe fields requiring explanation:

Main Tab

Field

Description

Template

The document template used to print this document

You can use an .xdp file for ADS printing.

Document Type

Document: Specifies that this document is not a label or traveler, but any other type of document, such as a packing list, or a container document

Label: Specifies that this document is a bar code label

Traveler: Specifies that this document is a traveler

Print Method

Automatic: Specifies that this document will be printed automatically

Manual: Specifies that this document will be printed manually

Reprint: Specifies that this document will be available to print via Document Reprint only

All: Specifies that this document will be available to print automatically, manually, and via Document Reprint

Enabled

If selected, allows the system to use this document.
Print Integration Tab

Field

Description

Data Acquisition

The name of the service that must be executed to acquire the data for this document (see Binding SAP ME Data to XDP Templates)

Note Note

For ADS Document Print, use com.sap.me.document$PrintingDataAcquisitionService.

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Formatting

The name of the service that must be executed to format this document for the third-party printing package

Note that the system supports the Adobe printing package, other formats require customization.

Note Note

For ADS Document Print, use com.sap.me.document$PrintingFormatAdsService.

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Transport

The name of the service that must be executed to transport the formatted data to the third-party printing package

Note Note

For ADS Document Print, use com.sap.me.document$PrintingTransportAdsService.

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User Argument (Transport)

The user-defined data that is passed to the Transport service for this document

Note Note

For ADS Document Print, define the following transport user argument:

PRINT_FORMAT with one of the supported values (ZPL, PDF, PS, PCL, DPL, IPL, TPCL) and XDC file (for example, PRINT_FORMAT=ZPL;XDC=zpl300.xdc).

For more information about printing formats and XDC files, see Setting Up ADS Printing.

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Write Error Log

If selected, it writes errors to the PRINTING_LOG table as these services are executed.