Get list of all printers and save selected choice

Sohaib Cheema

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Past week found a task to work with an old version where it was required to get and set list of all printers attached to machine. This includes, AOS Printer, which are not connected to local client machine, as well as locally connected printers to that specific machine. Please allow me to share the x++ code that was tested and used in AX2009 version.

//<Variables Declaration>
PrintJobSettings            printJobSettings;    
sysPrintOptions             sysPrintOptions;
map                         printerMap;
mapIterator                 mapIterator;
//<Variables Declaration>

printJobSettings = SysPrintOptions::newPrintJobSettingsOnServer(YourTableObjectName.FieldName);
sysPrintOptions = new sysPrintOptions();
sysPrintOptions.setPrintJobSettings(printJobSettings);
sysPrintOptions.buildPrinterMap();
printerMap = sysPrintOptions.getPrinterMap();
mapIterator = new mapIterator(printerMap);
mapIterator.begin();
while (mapIterator.more())
{
    mapIterator.next();
}
printJobSettings.printerSettings('SysPrintForm');
YourTableObjectName.FieldName = printJobSettings.packPrintJobSettings();
YourTableObjectName.update();

Basically we are getting list of all printers, saving those into a map and then finally saving the selected value of printer (by user) to a container. This is for required funcationality reasons. It’s almost same funcationality as you can select printers in print management.

For particular document/report they did not extended print management framework and instead followed shortcut of saving printer settings in a table. This could be used later at any point. E.g. you may want to print a report using batch job, on a particular printer (which is defined already in a table/setup form)