Scheduled Programmatic Printing

I have searched this site and the internet but can not find and article or
discussion related to a means of scheduling the execution of a report and
have the report programmatically printed. Does anyone else have such a need
and how have they approached such a solution?
TIA RonHi,
Books online have an example of how you can set up a printer as an output
destination for subscriptions.
Once the printer has been setup up in RS, you can simply set up a data
driven subscription in the standard way and point it to your printer.
Gavin
"Ron Schmidt" wrote:
> Rob -- Thanks for the response.
> We actually have done neither at this time. We are attempting to
> "convert/replace" a number of Unix based reports that are currently being
> executed via functions on a Tandem system. The current reports are
> scheduled, executed and the output sent to a specific networked printer. We
> have developed a few simple scheduled reports and a few ad hoc parameter
> driven reports, but were puzzled as to how we could have a "production"
> scheduled report that would execute unattended and print to a designated
> printer. It looks like we may have to create a separate executable and
> explore how the executable can print to a specific printer.
> Thanks again
> Ron
> "Rob Nelder" <RobNelder@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5F7DE303-A8AF-4D63-A1EF-4AF3A7A8F0CB@.microsoft.com...
> > Ron,
> >
> > Is it the scheduling or the programmatic printing that you're having
> > trouble
> > with?
> >
> > If you've written your own code to print reports, have you done it as a
> > report rendering extension, or as a separate executable/DLL?
> >
> > If the former, I think you should be able to schedule the report from
> > Report
> > Manager. If the later, you'll need to either schedule your code to run
> > using
> > the Windows Scheduler (or some equivalent), or have your code running
> > permanently as a Windows Service so that it can schedule the printing its
> > self.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rob
> >
> > "Ron Schmidt" wrote:
> >
> >> I have searched this site and the internet but can not find and article
> >> or
> >> discussion related to a means of scheduling the execution of a report and
> >> have the report programmatically printed. Does anyone else have such a
> >> need
> >> and how have they approached such a solution?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> TIA Ron
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>|||Ron,
Is it the scheduling or the programmatic printing that you're having trouble
with?
If you've written your own code to print reports, have you done it as a
report rendering extension, or as a separate executable/DLL?
If the former, I think you should be able to schedule the report from Report
Manager. If the later, you'll need to either schedule your code to run using
the Windows Scheduler (or some equivalent), or have your code running
permanently as a Windows Service so that it can schedule the printing its
self.
Cheers,
Rob
"Ron Schmidt" wrote:
> I have searched this site and the internet but can not find and article or
> discussion related to a means of scheduling the execution of a report and
> have the report programmatically printed. Does anyone else have such a need
> and how have they approached such a solution?
>
> TIA Ron
>
>|||Rob -- Thanks for the response.
We actually have done neither at this time. We are attempting to
"convert/replace" a number of Unix based reports that are currently being
executed via functions on a Tandem system. The current reports are
scheduled, executed and the output sent to a specific networked printer. We
have developed a few simple scheduled reports and a few ad hoc parameter
driven reports, but were puzzled as to how we could have a "production"
scheduled report that would execute unattended and print to a designated
printer. It looks like we may have to create a separate executable and
explore how the executable can print to a specific printer.
Thanks again
Ron
"Rob Nelder" <RobNelder@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5F7DE303-A8AF-4D63-A1EF-4AF3A7A8F0CB@.microsoft.com...
> Ron,
> Is it the scheduling or the programmatic printing that you're having
> trouble
> with?
> If you've written your own code to print reports, have you done it as a
> report rendering extension, or as a separate executable/DLL?
> If the former, I think you should be able to schedule the report from
> Report
> Manager. If the later, you'll need to either schedule your code to run
> using
> the Windows Scheduler (or some equivalent), or have your code running
> permanently as a Windows Service so that it can schedule the printing its
> self.
> Cheers,
> Rob
> "Ron Schmidt" wrote:
>> I have searched this site and the internet but can not find and article
>> or
>> discussion related to a means of scheduling the execution of a report and
>> have the report programmatically printed. Does anyone else have such a
>> need
>> and how have they approached such a solution?
>>
>> TIA Ron
>>