Document number: 11676

 

Who: All IT Help Desk Technicians

Why: How to change a default printer in OneWorld Fat Client.

What:

There are 2 ways of defining the default printer:

Option 1 (Fast Path not required):

1. From the OneWorld Explorer window, click View, then click User Options.

2. Select Default Printer.

3. Now you need to make your current active printer Not Active. To do this you need to search for your current default printer. Enter your current printer's print server and print name (example:\\corprts#\denitp#) in the Printer Name section and click Find.

4. Look for the active printer. You might need to select them all to find it.

5. Once you find the active printer, change it to Not Active.

6. Now that you have made the printer Not Active, you can now follow the same steps to search for the printer you want for your new active default printer. Once you find the printer, make sure the printer you are choosing has the following settings:

• User/Group is listed as *PUBLIC
• Report Name is listed as *ALL
• Version Name is listed as *ALL

7. Change the printer's Object Status to Active and click on OK.
   

Option 2 (Fast Path required):

1. On the Printer's menu (GH9013), choose Printers (P98616).
   
   
2. On the Printer's form, click Define Default Printer. The Work With Default Printers form appears.
   
   
3. Click Add. The Default Printer Revisions form appears.
   
   
4. Complete the following fields:
   
   User/Group
   Click the visual assist to choose either a particular user for this printer or to choose an entire group. If the field is left blank, the default value is *PUBLIC
   
   Report Name
   Click the visual assist to choose a specific report to print. If the field is left blank, the default value is *ALL.
   
   Version Name
   Click the visual assist to choose a specific version to run. If the field is left blank, the default value is *ALL. If the Report Name is *ALL, the version name defaults to *ALL and is disabled.
   
   Environment
   OneWorld automatically enters the name of the environment that you are currently signed onto. You can change this information.
   
   Printer Name
   
   Host Name
   Include the host server on which reports are to run. The visual assist displays the appropriate host names, based on the printer name you select.
   
   Object Status
   You can make this new printer the default printer by changing its status to active. If an error occurs, it means that another printer is currently the active default. You need to change the original default printer to inactive before you can activate the new printer. You can perform multiple status changes from the Work With Default Printers form as explained at the end of this task.
   
   
5. Click OK. After you click OK from the Default Printers Revision form, the Work With Default Printers form appears.
   
   
6. To change the status of a default printer from the Work With Default Printers form, choose a default record, and then from the Row menu, choose Change Status.

If another printer is already specified as the active default, an error occurs. To change the original default printer to inactive, choose it, and from the Row menu, choose Change Status. Then make the new printer the default.

Keywords: OneWorld, One World, OW, printer, printing, OneWorld printer, Fat Client

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created by the PeopleSoft Knowledge Management Team.
Copyright © 2003 All rights reserved.
Created: amq 10/15/2003
Reviewed: 10/22/2004