I have an application in Service Connect that creates packing slips, and at the end of the process it sets a checkbox to autoprint. We are having all kinds of problems with that, it seems as if it needs regular touches to keep it going. Even when it’s up and running, the time that it takes from the point the checkbox is set until it starts coming off the printer is horrendous. I’m ready to throw my hands up and am seeking alternatives.
Is anyone doing something different to invoke a report? I’d even be open to dumping the data for the pack slip out via a customization that then gets picked up by some other report (that’s really what Crystal is doing anyway).
I’ve been using some custom code to drop out CSV’s for bartender to pick up. You can make some pretty nice forms in bartender (packing slips is one of the things I am making too) and they work very quickly. I don’t have any experience modifying service connect, but if you can get it to spit out a CSV file on a folder you can have a watch folder set up to autoprint with bartender. There are even other options to pick up the data, I’d have to look to see what they all are, but the integration builder with bartender is pretty powerful, relatively easy to use, and pretty quick.
edit: and you don’t need to buy the bartender license from epicor, the files that epicor spits out with that licence are limited at best, and you’ll probably need to program your own CSV’s anyways so you could go directly to seagull if you wanted to. I have no idea if that’s any cheaper or not.
The site won’t let me upload bartender files. But here is a label that we use for receipts. This one prints on a 4x6 label from the zebra print, but we have other reports that just print to a paper printer, (like the one shown below)
I’m not at work today. Did you try making one from scratch? It’s really not hard and by the time you end up modifying one of mine, you would have been better off making yours from scratch. It really isn’t much more complicated than PowerPoint.
