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2014-03-28

Implement a Trigger under Novell 3.x

Unless otherwise indicated, always press ENTER at the end of a command. Note that you can exit any window or command area at any time by pressing ESCAPE.

To install a trigger:

  1. Log on to the server, and enter Supervisor and printdef.

  2. In the PrintDef Options dialog box, select Print Devices.

  3. In the Print Device Options dialog box, select Edit Print Devices.

  4. Press INSERT.

  5. In the New Device Name dialog box, enter the name of the document you want to execute. For this example, enter Mailing.

  6. In the Defined Print Devices dialog box, select Mailing and press ENTER.

  7. In the Edit Device Options dialog box, select Device Functions.

  8. Press INSERT.

  9. In the Function Definition dialog box, enter the following information:

    • In the Name field, enter Reset

    • In the Escape Sequence field, enter the following sequence: <ESC>%-12345X<CR><LF>

  10. Press ESCAPE. In the Save Changes dialog box, select Yes and press ENTER to save the changes.

  11. In the Mailing Functions dialog box, press INSERT.

  12. In the Function Definition dialog box, enter the following information:

    • In the Name field, enter Force PostScript

    • In the Escape Sequence field, enter the following sequence: <ESC>%-12345X@PJL enter language = PostScript <CR><LF>

  13. Press ESCAPE. In the Save Changes dialog box, select Yes and press ENTER to save the changes.

  14. In the Function Definition dialog box, enter the following information:

    • In the Name field, enter Call Mailing

    • In the Escape Sequence field, enter the following sequence: (MAILING) run MAILING<CR><LF>

  15. Press ESCAPE. In the Save Changes dialog box, select Yes and press ENTER to save the changes.

  16. Press ESCAPE again. In the Edit Device Options dialog box, select Device Modes.

    The Mailing Modes dialog box appears.

  17. In the New Mode Name dialog box, press INSERT and enter Call Mailing.

  18. In the Call Mailing Functions dialog box, press INSERT.

  19. In the Additional Mailing Functions dialog box, select Force PostScript and press ENTER.

  20. The Call Mailing Functions dialog box should display Force PostScript.

  21. Press INSERT.

  22. In the Additional Mailing Functions dialog box, select Call Mailing.

  23. Press ENTER.

  24. Press ESCAPE to return to the Mailing Modes dialog box.

  25. In the Mailing Modes dialog box, select (Re-initialize).

  26. In the (Re-initialize) Functions dialog box, press INSERT.

  27. In the Additional Mailing Functions dialog box, select Reset and press ENTER.

  28. The (Re-initialize) Functions dialog box displays Reset.

  29. In the Exit PrintDef dialog box, select Yes to save the changes.

  30. In the Exit Options dialog box, select Save Data Base, then EXIT.

  31. Press ESCAPE several times to exit Printdef.

  32. In DosPrompt, enter Printcon.

  33. In the Available Options dialog box, select Edit Print Job Configurations.

  34. Press INSERT.

  35. In the Enter new name field, enter Mailing.

  36. Press ENTER.

  37. In the Edit Print Job Configuration "Mailing" dialog box, adjust only the following settings. Leave all others untouched.

    Options: Settings

    Print Queue: Printer where the intelligent document resides

    Device: Mailing

    Mode: Call Mailing

    Print Banner: No

  38. Press ESCAPE and save the changes.

To test the trigger installation:

  1. In DosPrompt, enter pconsole to access pconsole.

  2. In the Available Options dialog box, select Print Queue Information and press INSERT.

  3. In the New Print Queue Name field, enter MAILING.

  4. In the Print Queues dialog box, select Mailing and press ENTER.

  5. In the Print Queue Information dialog box, select Current Queue Status.

  6. In the Current Queue Status dialog box, select No for the Servers can service entries in queue option.

  7. Press ESCAPE several times to exit pconsole.

  8. In the DOS prompt, enter the following line:

    /l=2 represents the LPT port to which the printer is connected. In this example, it is LPT2.

  9. Return to pconsole.

  10. In the Available Options dialog box, select Print Queue Information.

  11. In the Print Queues dialog box, select Mailing.

  12. In the Print Queue Information dialog box, select Print Queue ID. The following dialog box appears.

  13. Make a note of the Object ID.

  14. Press ESCAPE several times to exit pconsole.

  15. In DOS, enter the following to create a sample spool file:

c:\>dir>lpt2

16. In the drive on which the Sys Volume is mounted, enter the following lines:

Y:\>cd system

Y:\SYSTEM>dir *.qdr

A list of all printer queues, including the one you just created, appears. The new printer queue has the same name as the Object ID noted earlier.

17. Enter the following:

Y:\SYSTEM>cd 2F00000B.qdr

Y:\SYSTEM>2F00000B>dir

The following appears.

18. Using the information located in the directory, enter the last line. In this case:

Y:\SYSTEM\2F00000B.QDR>type oo2f0001.q :more

19. If no error occurs, the trigger and printer queue test is successful. The trigger appears at the start of the file.
20. In the pconsole > Print Queue Information > Current Queue Status dialog box, change Servers can service entries in queue to Yes.