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Procedure documentationSelecting and Displaying Spool and Output Requests Locate this document in the navigation structure

 

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

Note Note

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.

End of the note.

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 (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 is displayed.

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.

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  2. Choose Execute (Execute).

    The following list of spool requests appears:

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

The status column may contain:

Status

Meaning

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The request has not yet been sent to a printer. To print the request, choose Print (Print) or Print with Changed Parameters (Print with Changed Parameters).

Complete

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 (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.

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