Printing Elements 

Use

A number of printing functions are available for printing:

·        Print attributes

·        Print attributes and contents of an element

If you use this function for a record, for example, the record with all its subordinate elements is printed. All cases and documents in the cases are printed with your attributes.

·        Print unique indicator of an element as a barcode

Features

Print Attributes

The printing of attributes is controlled by SAP Smart Forms. You can use them to define the design and layout. For more information, see SAP Smart Forms.

SAP delivers the following sample forms for printing elements, which you can adjust to your own requirements:

Smart Forms

Element	Attribute Name	Form
Case	PSPRTCAS	RMPS_SMART_FORM_CASE
Document	PSPRTDOC	RMPS_SMART_FORM_DOCUMENT
Incoming Post Item	PSPRTPOS	RMPS_SMART_FORM_POST
Record	PSPRTREC	RMPS_SMART_FORM_RECORD

If you define your own forms, you must ensure that the form interface matches the interface in the standard system. You also have to define the forms in the table SCMGPARAM.

You can control the printing of attributes and content according to your own criteria using the Business Add-In External Output of Attributes/Document Contents (Print E-Mail) (RMPS_EXTERNAL_OUTPUT). Using this BAdI, you can, for example, define which attributes should be printed. You can find more information in the implementation guide of Records and Case Management under Basic Settings → BAdI: External Output of Attributes/Document Contents.

Print Unique Indicator as a Barcode

The printing of unique indicators of elements (reference numbers of records, case indicators, or document numbers) as barcodes is controlled by SAPscript forms.

SAP delivers a common SAPscript form based on the SAP barcode type AUFNR for records, cases, documents and incoming post items.

To create another SAP barcode type, you can copy the SAPscript form RMPS_BARCODE and then adjust it to your own requirements. Then you have to define the new form using the following attribute names in the table SCMGPARAM:

Unique Indicator	Attribute Name	SAPscript Form
Case Indicator	RMPS_BARCODE	PSBCASE
Document Number	RMPS_BARCODE	PSBCSOC
Document Number, Incoming Post Item	RMPS_BARCODE	PSBCPOST
Record Reference Number	RMPS_BARCODE	PSBCREC

In the standard system, SAP only supports the printing of documents that were created using a SAP editor such as SAP Text Edit Control. If you want to print documents that were created using a different editor such as MS PowerPoint, MS Word or MS Excel, you need an external print converter program. For more information, see SAP note 562518.