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OSMOSiS Print Manager

To complement the OSMOSiS 4GL Rapid Application Development toolkit, jBASE International has introduced an additional tool that can be used with or without OSMOSiS.

What is Print Manager and what does it do? 

OSMOSiS Print Manager is a comprehensive GUI representative of the MultiValue spooler which looks similar to the Windows spooler.  As this is MultiValue specific, it requires program(s) running on the server and a telnet session to the server is initiated to start these programs, which are used to interface with the MultiValue Spooler.  Incorporating this tool into the user’s site will simplify the process of controlling the print spooler. OSMOSiS Print Manager can be used completely unbound from OSMOSiS as it simply connects to an account already setup on the Server and uses a couple of non-OSMOSiS specific routines. 

How does Print Manager work?

▪  When the OSMOSiS Print Manager is started, a list of printers is displayed on the left-hand-side of the GUI presentation
▪  The spooler entries for the selected printer can be manipulated by stopping, deleting and even transferring prints from one printer to another
▪  Once a printer is selected, a list of all the print jobs for that printer is displayed in a grid on the right-hand-side
▪  Unlike the Windows spooler, the OSMOSiS Print Manager can multi-select a list of jobs and view the actual contents of each print job
▪  Another unique function is the ability to move jobs from one printer to another
▪  Each print job can be viewed, deleted, put on hold and stopped

 

The User treats OSMOSiS Print Manager as he would the Windows Print Manager with no need to use or even know about the MultiValue Spooler commands.  To add a new printer simply click the “Add Printer” icon in the left margin and a GUI window will pop-up asking for the relevant parameters in an easy-to-understand language.  To delete a job, just highlight the job in the right hand grid and click the Delete Job icon in the “Job Tasks” window in the left column. 

At this moment in time, the OSMOSiS Print Manager is available on jBASE and D3 with the interface to UniVerse and Cache spoolers currently under development. 

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