Background Printing issue

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have a custom report similar to lx03 transaction. The report the user is trying to run is named and BIN status report which runs on Production. This is supposed to give available stock/block stock so the user knows what is in the cold stores - if the user runs the job striaght away al A4 oll ok but if user run it in background only half of the page is shown and the second page is cut off aswell

The variant is set up OK and so is the layout. The printer is defaulted in the user profile own data.

Any tips will be appreciated.

regards

Aveek

[Former Member]

Hello,

Did you check in the spool if the list is coming alright.

Just check in SP01 transactions in settings and then click on selections see whether all parameters are set correctly.

Regards,

Shekhar kulkarni

[christian_wohlfahrt]

Hi Aveek,

you said: printer is defaulted in user parameters.

Didn't you maintain printing settings in job planning? Here I would expect printer selection and output definitions - for a network printer, no local.

You can still check afterwards in SM37 in job details, step overview, display, print specifications. Something unusual here?

Regards,

Christian

[Former Member]

Hi,

The program is an ALV report which has been set up to print in background by a job scheduled once a day. The printer specification is mentioned in the job step. It is a network printer. I checked the spool. Looks like it gets deleted after the printout.

It prints in Landscape in foregound and prints in Potrait and diff fonts in background.

regards

Aveek

[Former Member]

How many pages does this run into? Normally, by default a spool only shows you the first 10 pages. If you want to see all the pages, you press the 'Settings' button and change the 'To page' to say 999. This will give you a warning that displaying so many pages at one time may result in memory overflow, but you can ignore that and proceed.

Let us know if this is the problem.

[christian_wohlfahrt]

Hi Aveek,

I have still some questions about spool definition details:

Has your report defined line-size line-count values?

Are they matched in spool definition / are reasonable values select in job definition.

Different portrait / landscape = different line number / column number settings in spool definition (and different font, because different settings have independent font assignments).

Please check all settings (not just printer) in job definition.

Regards,

Christian

[Former Member]

I think ALV reports have a limitation of printing more than 255 lines (or) some ting like that when run in back ground...

Regards,

Hari