BPM - Printing External PDF File From Link

Epicor ERP 10
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I have a link to customer print in PDF format attached to my operations. I want to use a BPM to print that PDF file. Has anyone tried this successfully? Any help would be appreciated. - Thanks!

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Printing PDF’s isn’t trivial unfortunately. Specially on a BPM.
You’d have to invoke the ADobe.exe process and pass it parameters…
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe” /t “D:\File.pdf” “Brother MFC-7820N USB Printer” “Brother MFC-7820N USB Printer” “IP_192.168.10.110”

But this would cause many issues since BPms are run server side.

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Could you do something like call some .net in the BPM or even a SQL CLR assemble that ran a BAQ report, crystal/SSRS report to PDF like you have shown a long time ago?

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Thanks for the replies. I am not much of a “coder”, so neither method are great options for me. I was hoping there was a simple solution.

Jose – would your plan work better if I had all network/server printers?

Rob Radloff
IT Manager
Norlen Inc
Office – 715-359-1601
Mobile – 715-370-2540

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hmm APM/doclink perhaps?

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Dot Net It was selling a plugin to do this. http://www.dotnetit.co.uk/solutions/solution/job-traveller

I have no idea if they still are but since you can still get DMT I would have hopes that you can get their other stuff too.

John

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Ended up requesting a customization. Too much time invested already. I’ll let an expert handle it.

Thanks!

Rob

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Did anyone able to print an external PDF from the BPM?

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You probably would be better to do it in a function. I note that there is the Aspose.PDF assembly that is available.

This link might help you

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Hi,

I need to print the external PDF which is in network path when printing the Maintenance Job Report. Can you please bit explain how can I do that from BPM or Function.

Actually the code which is working in Customization not working in BPM or Function.

Getting the below error

An error occurred trying to start process ‘\fst\E\Environmental\Test\11000-0-1.pdf’ with working directory ‘D:\Epicor\inetpub\wwwroot\KineticDEV\Server’. The specified executable is not a valid application for this OS platform.