generating electronic and printed invoices & reminders
 IGeneralInvoiceRequestManager::Print method |
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The Print method validates the defined invoice/reminder data and prints the request on the local printer. The printer selection is done via the used report generator template file. If the template file was not connected to a printer with the PrintSetup method then the default printer with its default settings is used.
The bstrPrintTemplate variable obeys a special syntax and can optionally be used to set special print commands like using electronic webstamps, producing PDFs or changing print object dynamically.
As a migration help there is a downgrade facility implemented that allows to override the generation of the V430 infosets. The downgrade to a lower versions (V400 and V410) is done by a delegation mechanism using the target version's COM module. and setting the appropriate timestamp argument plTimestamp ! IMPORTANT LICENSE NOTE The report engine used is Hexatech's ViewPro (www.hexatech.com). If you supply your own template files then you must have your own ViewPro license. By using this COM module you implicitly agree upon this restriction! |
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| C/C++ calling syntax |
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| HRESULT Print( | BSTR
YesNoType YesNoType YesNoType long BSTR IAddress long BSTR IGeneralInvoiceResult VARIANT_BOOL |
bstrPrintTemplate,
ePrintPreview, eAddressRight, eSortTimeTariff, lEsrExcludeAttributes, bstrSenderID, *pIReceiverAddress, *plTimestamp, *pbstrUsedSchema, **ppIGeneralInvoiceResult, *pbStatus); |
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| [in] BSTR | bstrPrintTemplate | The bstrPrintTemplate is either empty or build as defined in "Syntax of the printTemplate variable".
If bstrPrintTemplate is empty then the default print template of the supplied data language (IGeneralInvoiceRequest::Initialize method) is used. |
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| [in] YesNoType | ePrintPreview | A Boolean that defines if print preview is used (enYes) or printing is done (enNo) | |
| [in] YesNoType | eAddressRight | A Boolean that defines on which side -left or right- the receiver address should be printed.
Note that currently only right-sided addressing is allowed. Therefore eAddressRight is internally always set to enYes. |
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| [in] YesNoType | eSortTimeTariff | A Boolean that defines how the services are sorted:
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| [in] long | lEsrExcludeAttributes | This variable defines which principal parts of the ESR should not be printed. lEsrExcludeAttributes is a 32-bit integer where the possible excludes are values from the EsrExcludeAttributes data type and are ORed together to form the overall command.
This feature is necessary to exclude certain parts of the ESR data from printing due the pre-printed forms. |
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| [in] BSTR | bstrSenderID | Short sender address identification or empty.
If set then the sender identification is printed atop of the receiver address as an alternative to the sender address on the envelop. |
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| [in] IAddress | *pIReceiverAddress | An optional receiver address given via an IAddress interface.
This is used whenever the supplied insurance should be overridden as receiver by the supplied address. Note that the "inner" data is not affected or changed by this override. |
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| [out] long | *plTimestamp | The timestamp of the XML document as epoch time (seconds elapsed since 1.1.1970) that is used as timestamp of the topmost object reference from that point on.
If the timestamp for the topmost object reference was already set (e.g. to produce a copy) then this same timestamp is returned. PATCH: by setting the plTimestamp variable as
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| [out] BSTR | *pbstrUsedSchema | The full XSD name that was used to print the data.
Normally this would be generalInvoiceRequest_430.xsd. However, in the downgrade situation managed by the plTimestamp variable the XSD schema name is adjusted appropriately. |
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| [out] IGeneralInvoiceResult | **ppIGeneralInvoiceResult | The IGeneralInvoiceResult interface handle that allows to get all loaded data back.
The handle is NULL if an error occurred. |
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| [out, retval] VARIANT_BOOL | *pbStatus | Return status of the method. If pbStatus is VARIANT_FALSE then an error occurred and GetAbortInfo should be called to retrieve the error string. | |
| C/C++ return value |
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| S_OK | This value is returned if the function call was successful or if the return value of a boolean method signalling a true value. In this case the VARIANT_BOOL is set to VARIANT_TRUE. | ||
| S_FALSE | This is the return value of a boolean method signalling a false return value. In this case the VARIANT_BOOL is set to VARIANT_FALSE. | ||
| E_name | This value is returned if the function call was unsuccessful and an error exception was generated. Note that if you are using SmartPointers an exception is thrown under these conditions. | ||