✒️ABAP / El spool de impresión Por Jaime Gomez Arango
ABAP El spool de impresión
Print Spool
In any enterprise management environment, a substantial amount of information often needs to be printed. This information encompasses reports from various departments, invoices, delivery notes, forms, and numerous other possibilities. SAP provides a convenient way to print from any screen using the printer icon in the toolbar.
When you click on the printer icon, a window appears, allowing you to choose the output device (printer), such as the local Windows printer configured as LOCL, which, in this case, prints in PDF format. You can also specify the number of prints and whether to print all or only specific pages.
Layout: It determines the number of rows and columns for the printout. In this case, it is set to 65 lines and 80 columns. For printing, the system sets the layout to X_65_80.
Print Spool: It serves as a repository for print requests, providing utilities to control information output. Access the print spool through the standard transaction SP01.
Transaction SP01: Known as "The Spool," it manages all print requests generated in the SAP system. Spool orders can be filtered for viewing using the following selection criteria:
- Spool order number.
- SAP user who generated it.
- Creation date and time.
- Client.
- Authorization.
- Output device.
- Title.
- Recipient.
- Department.
- SAP system or environment.
Within the transaction, clicking 'execute' filters spool orders to view, and you'll find the order corresponding to the print from the SE11 transaction.
For each spool order, you'll see the following data:
- Spool order number.
- Order type (can be ABAP list for reports, SAPScripts, forms, PDF, etc.).
- User who generated it.
- Creation date and time.
- Order status.
- Page count.
- Title or name of the order.
SAP divides a print job into two parts:
- Spool Order: A document selected for printing but not sent to a printer yet. Output data is temporarily stored until an output order is created.
- Output Order: Contains print parameters of a spool order. Multiple output orders may exist for a single spool order, each with different attributes like destination printer or copy count.
Operations on a spool order include creating output orders, modifying attributes, deleting, or viewing content.
Possible spool order states:
- Ready: Spool order not yet sent, no output order. Any state other than 'Ready' means the corresponding output order has been created.
- Generating: Spool order being generated and stored in the spool system.
- Finished: Spool order printed successfully.
- Waiting: Spool order is in a waiting state, spool system hasn't processed the output order.
- In Process: Spool system is formatting the output order for printing.
- Printing: Spool is printing the output order.
- Problem: Minor errors. Printed but with some issues like incomplete character sets.
- Error: Severe problems, e.g., network error. Not printed, remains in the queue until deleted or expired.
- Archived: For spool orders sent to an archive device, waiting to be archived.
- Time: User-specified time for output.
Starting from spool order 'XXXXXX', generate an output order by ticking and clicking the 'Print Directly' icon. The spool order moves to the Waiting state. After refreshing, it moves to the Finished state. Once in the Finished state, the configured Windows printer (PDF conversion in this case) executes the print.
At this point, an output order has been generated. To view it, click the 'output orders' icon in the toolbar. Double-clicking on the output order allows viewing spool attributes in the SPOOL tab and output attributes in the Output Attributes tab.
Next to the 'Print Directly' icon, there is the 'Print with changed parameters' icon, allowing reprinting with modified parameters like output device, copies, priority, recipient, layout, etc.
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Publicación académica de Jaime Eduardo Gomez Arango, en su ámbito de estudios para la Carrera Consultor ABAP Nivel Inicial.
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Jaime Eduardo Gomez Arango
Profesión: Ingeniero de Sistemas y Computación - España - Legajo: SW34C
✒️Autor de: 149 Publicaciones Académicas
🎓Egresado de los módulos:
- Carrera Consultor SAP BTP Fiori
- Carrera Consultor ABAP Nivel Avanzado
- Carrera Consultor ABAP Nivel Inicial
Disponibilidad Laboral: FullTime
Presentación:
Ingeniero de sistemas y computación con 8 años de experiencia el desarrollo frontend & backend (react/node) y en cloud (aws), actualmente desarrollando habilidades en sap btp, ui5, abap y fiori.
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