Print PDF Document

The Print PDF Document action prints static PDF documents that are not linked to the labels in your PowerForms solutions or Loftware Automation configurations. Use this action to print any PDF document directly from your solutions or configurations. The PDF documents can be stored on:

Your computer
Loftware Control Center
Web server
Shared network drives

	Tip
	The action is useful if you plan to equip your packages with printed PDF reports on included items, or if you want to print the packaging documentation without opening the file browser.

	Note
	When in use, the Print PDF Document action takes one printer seat from your license quota. Read the Loftware licensing document for more information on licensing.

About group identifies the selected action.

Name: allows you to define a custom action name. This makes actions easily recognizable on the solution's list of actions. By default, the action name is taken from its type.
Description: custom information about the action. Enter a description to explain the purpose and role of action in a solution.
Action type: read-only information about the selected action type.

Printer group specifies the printer name to be used for the current print job.

Printer name: select it from the list of locally installed printer drivers, or manually enter a printer name. Select Data source to dynamically select the printer using a variable. If enabled, select or create a variable that contains the printer name which is used if the action is run.

File group defines the redirect file.

File name: specifies which PDF to print.

	Note
	Use the UNC syntax for network resources. For more information, see section Access to Network Shared Resources in Loftware Automation User Guide.

Action Execution and Error Handling

Each action can be set as a conditional action. Conditional actions only run when the defined conditions allow them to be run. To define these conditions, click Show execution and error handling options.

Execution options are:

Enabled: specifies if the action is enabled or disabled. Only enabled actions will execute. This functionality may be used while testing a form.
Condition: defines one-line programming expression that must provide a Boolean value (true or false). When the result of the expression is true, the action will execute. Condition offers a way to avoid executing actions every time.

Error handling options are:

Ignore failure: specifies whether an error should be ignored or not. With Ignore failure option enabled, the execution of actions continues even if the current action fails.

	Note
	Nested actions that depend on the current action do not execute in case of a failure. The execution of actions continues with the next action on the same level as the current action. The error is logged but does not break the execution of the action.

Example 51. Example

At the end of printing, you might want to send the status update to an external application using HTTP Request action. If the printing action fails, action processing stops. In order to execute the reporting even after the failed print action, the Print Label action must have the option Ignore failure enabled.

Save error to variable: allows you to select or create a variable to save the error to. The same cause of the error is also saved to internal variables ActionLastErrorId and ActionLastErrorDesc.