SAP ABAP IMG Activity EHS_GLM_LABPRI_PR_AU (Set Up Automatic Print Request Generation)
Hierarchy
☛ EA-APPL (Software Component) SAP Enterprise Extension PLM, SCM, Financials
   ⤷ EHS-SAF (Application Component) Product Safety
     ⤷ CBGLM (Package) EHS: Global Label Management
IMG Activity
ID EHS_GLM_LABPRI_PR_AU Set Up Automatic Print Request Generation  
Transaction Code S_EEI_69000168   (empty) 
Created on 20121214    
Customizing Attributes EHS_GLM_LABPRI_PR_AU   Set Up Automatic Print Request Generation 
Customizing Activity    
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name EHS_GLM_LABPRINT_PR_AUTOM    

Use

In Global Label Management, you can print labels via automatically generated print requests. The print request is generated from a business process (from shipping, for example).

Processing Print Requests

The print requests are controlled internally using the print request API (function group CBGL_PRINT_REQUEST_API). This means that all Global Label Management print requests are managed in this API. Print requests are created, changed, and deleted using the print request API. The print request API is also used to print the labels and to request the file for the label preview. This enables you to integrate the print request API into different processes in Global Label Management.

In Global Label Management in the standard system, programs and function modules are delivered that enable you to integrate the print request API into the process order, shipping, and handling unit business processes.

Print output with a print request is carried out manually using the labeling workbench or automatically after the print request has been generated. For more information, see Customizing activity Print Print Request Manually and Automatically.

Labeling Workbench

The print request generated, which contains the label generated on the WWI server as well as the header data and parameter values, can be processed in the labeling workbench. This means that print requests that are flagged as New in the worklist can be changed, copied, or deleted here before printing. You can also call a preview of the print request.

If print requests cannot be generated, check the error messages for the object EHPR in the Log Display in the labeling workbench.

Requirements

You have processed the following Customizing activities:

Standard settings

Activities

In Customizing for Global Label Management, check the following settings for the automatic generation of print requests:

  • Specify Print Destination (mandatory setting)

    Specify the print station and printer that are assigned to the print requests during generation. If you do not specify a print destination, print requests cannot be generated automatically.

  • Specify Additional Labels for Print Request (optional setting)

    You can specify that additional labels (in addition to the quantity of labels determined by the system) are printed via the print request.

  • Set Filters for Print Requests (optional setting)

    The system first generates a print request for each label that can be determined from the material master. You can use filters to filter the generation of print requests and define criteria for the generation of print requests.

  • Specify Default Header Data for Print Request (optional setting)
    • You can specify default header data for print requests and print request bodies.
    • If you select Print Immediately, the print requests are printed immediately after they are generated. This means that printing does not have to be triggered in the labeling workbench.
  • Specify Default Values for Sequential Numbering (optional setting)
    • By default, sequential numbers have a start value of 1 and an increment value of 1 and the number of labels with identical sequential numbering is 1. You can override this setting in this Customizing activity.

Generating Print Requests from the "Delivery" and "Handling Unit" Business Processes Using Output Control

Automatic print request generation for the delivery and handling unit business processes is implemented using output control and integrated into Global Label Management using the report RCBGL_TRIGGER_NAST. The report RCBGL_TRIGGER_NAST must be called in the ENTRY FORM routine of the processing routines. As soon as the output is triggered, the print request is generated automatically.

For more information, see the documentation for the report Integrate Output Control into Global Label Management.

Create the required processing routine as follows:

  • In Customizing, select the business process or application from which the print requests are to be generated automatically:
    • For the shipping business process: Customizing activity Maintain Output Types in Customizing for Shipping
    • For the handling unit business process: Customizing activity Maintain Output Types in Customizing for Transportation
  • Use an existing output type or create a new output type.
  • In the Processing Routines view, specify the Special Function transmission medium and assign the following parameters to a processing routine:
    • Program: RCBGL_TRIGGER_NAST
    • FORM routine: ENTRY

      All other fields remain empty.

In the Customizing activity Set Up Output Control for Labeling Scenarios, assign the shipping or handling unit application to the labeling scenario for which the print request is to be generated automatically. In this way, the labeling scenarios are linked to the corresponding applications using the report RCBGL_TRIGGER_NAST.

Testing Automatic Print Request Generation for Delivery/Handling Unit

Print requests for a delivery or handling unit are generated automatically if the output for the delivery or handling unit is triggered.

  • Check the generated print requests in the labeling workbench.
  • If no print requests were generated, check the error messages for the object EHPR in the Log Display of the labeling workbench.

Generating Print Requests from the "Process Order" Business Process

Automatic print request generation for process orders is implemented in customer exit PPCO0001 (Application development: PP orders). This customer exit is run when a process order is saved. The print request is generated automatically.

Edit the customer exit in Project Management of SAP Enhancements:

  1. Search for exit PPCO0001 under Utilities -> SAP Enhancements or create a new exit with the name PPCO0001.
  2. Open the EXIT_SAPLCOBT_001 function module under Components in SAP Enhancement.
  3. In the source text of the function module, open the entry INCLUDE ZXCO1U01 and implement the function module CBGL_TG01_TRIGGER_PP in this include. For more information about the implementation, see the Example section.

Define the following rule checks in Customizing:

  • Specify Rules for Print Requests of Process Orders (mandatory setting)
    • If you want to generate print requests automatically using process orders, print request generation must be based on rules that check the status transition of the process orders. The status switch in the process order determines whether a print request is generated.
    • If you do not set rules for generating print requests from process orders, no print requests are generated.
  • Additional Rules for Print Requests of Process Orders (optional setting)
    • If the print request processing rules defined in the Customizing activity Specify Rules for Print Requests of Process Orders have been checked successfully and the result is executed, the additional rules are then validated. Based on most fields specified for the process order, you can specify which rule is to be filled in order to generate a print request. If no rules are specified, a print request is always generated.
    • These settings are not mandatory. However, we recommend that you define the additional rules for generating print requests from process orders.

In the Customizing activity Work Centers for Print Request Generation Using Process Orders (optional setting), enter the work centers that you want to use to automatically generate print requests. Work centers defined here can also be used as filter criteria in other Customizing activities.

Testing Automatic Print Request Generation for Process Order

The print requests for the process order are generated automatically if the process order is saved. The print requests are generated based on the processing rules defined in Customizing.

  • Check the generated print requests in the labeling workbench.
    • Business Attributes
    ASAP Roadmap ID 105   Define functions and processes 
    Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
    Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
    Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
    Maintenance Objects
    Maintenance object type    
    History
    Last changed by/on SAP  20121219 
    SAP Release Created in 617