[PHP] Re: Printing Reports
There are so many reports. The system I have is a manufacturing system, and currently contains some 400 programs. Some examples of reports are: Bill of Lading with bar codes Production reports Management and analysis Labels for lab analysis with bar codes Planning reports Quality assurance Preventative maintenance work orders Warehouse Planning Billing And others Some of these are reports long, but I guess most are less than 20 pages. Most of the sites that use the system are small and usually have from 200 to 500 terminals and have systems that manage multiple printers. So they would like to direct the printed output. Like just about everyone, I'd like them to use more interactive stuff on the system. But users want their reports... HTH. Thanks again for the help. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Re: Printing Reports
So, is this a system that's being moved from workstations, a desktop interface, to a web-based interface? Do you want a web interface to select printers? Do you want tight formatting control over the report? There are big differences between a 20 pg mfg report, a bill of lading with bar code, and label for lab analysis. We're spoiled by all the top quality report generators out there, which work on the desktop. Or, using the lab analysis example, would it work like this: User brings up the page Fills in the form Presses Submit and the request gets written to the database. Confirmation comes back, displaying the submitted information with: 1. list of available printers 2. field for # of copies 3. Submit button. Here's the guess ... Click on submit, and the script makes an exec() calling the appropriate function in the application to print the report on a given printer with the selected set of parameters. Or bypasses the application altogether to have the report writer do the same thing. What about checking MSFT's BizTalk stuff? There may be some XML stuff there which does that? Regards - Miles Thompson At 06:04 AM 11/27/2001 -0800, Dan Koken wrote: There are so many reports. The system I have is a manufacturing system, and currently contains some 400 programs. Some examples of reports are: Bill of Lading with bar codes Production reports Management and analysis Labels for lab analysis with bar codes Planning reports Quality assurance Preventative maintenance work orders Warehouse Planning Billing And others Some of these are reports long, but I guess most are less than 20 pages. Most of the sites that use the system are small and usually have from 200 to 500 terminals and have systems that manage multiple printers. So they would like to direct the printed output. Like just about everyone, I'd like them to use more interactive stuff on the system. But users want their reports... HTH. Thanks again for the help. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: Printing Reports
Well I guess it's like most applications. Every print job has it's own special requirements. For example the lab analysis report. When the manufacturing process starts on a liquid process, they request certain samples. Samples consist of lab analysis they should take and how often they should take a sample. Most samples consist of about 10 to 12 analysis and are usually taken every 20 minutes to 1/2 hr. A process may last a couple days. So if they take a sample every 1/2 hour for 2 days that's 96 samples at 10 analysis each or around 1000 lab analysis. So the system will print 96 labels with 10 bar coded analysis on it. The labels are sent to the operations area. As they take a sample they affix a label to the bottle and send it to the lab. The lab does the analysis, enters the result and wands the proper analysis bar code on the bottle. The bottle then goes to the next lab analysis area. Most lab work is automated and a dry lab such as gas chromatography and automatic absorption units. The bottle enters a conveyor, the analysis is done and the bar code scanned as it passes the scan area. The data is then sent automatically with the bar code information to the system. Since the bar code scanner can't know exactly what bar code to read a bar code to the bar code is also on the sample. This report is not as complicated as most, but it may help give you some idea of what is needed. Some reports need fairly exact font and line control and others are just text files. Thanks again for all the help.. Dan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Re: Printing Reports
If all you want to do is print, then a simple JavaScript code should do the trick. example: //use php to send the report to a new browser //in this case, report.php has the code to generate the reports. a href=report.php?option=xy target=newXY Report/a //in the new window (or at the end of report.php) generate this link a href=# onclick=window.print() Print This Report/a //this would open the print dialog box, to allow users to select the target printer. The key would be to program 'report.php' to generate a clean, printer friendly, report. __John Monfort_ _+---+_ P E P I E D E S I G N S www.pepiedesigns.com The world is waiting, are you ready? -+___+- On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Dan Koken wrote: There are so many reports. The system I have is a manufacturing system, and currently contains some 400 programs. Some examples of reports are: Bill of Lading with bar codes Production reports Management and analysis Labels for lab analysis with bar codes Planning reports Quality assurance Preventative maintenance work orders Warehouse Planning Billing And others Some of these are reports long, but I guess most are less than 20 pages. Most of the sites that use the system are small and usually have from 200 to 500 terminals and have systems that manage multiple printers. So they would like to direct the printed output. Like just about everyone, I'd like them to use more interactive stuff on the system. But users want their reports... HTH. Thanks again for the help. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
