BOI - Printing of Purchase Orders - Unattended

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Experts, 
 I have a script that prints Purchase Orders to PDF through BOI. The script works fine when I manually run it. If I run it unattended through Windows Task Scheduler, it doesn't print the PDFs. My logfiles show that all the return values are okay until 
 $retVal = $oPOPrint.nProcessReport("EXPORT"). I am not getting an error message from $oPOPrint, but the retVal is 0 
 Is Sage BOI capable of printing PDFs with no user logged in? If yes, what needs to be done to make it work? 
 Thanks for your help! 
 Bastian

David Speck · Accepted Answer

Also, have you tried manually running the task? does it report anything if you do? 
 have you actually launched the sage 100 desktop and processed the report from beginning to end using the domain account used to authenticate for the scheduled task to rule out any first time prompts that might be triggered?

BillyVanilli · Answer

I finally figured it out. I am running the script on the Sage server. I used RDP to connect to the server and do the manual print. But that doesn't work because Sage recognizes that session as coming from the remote computer. I found that out by looking at the Master Console. It showed me logged in from the remote computer, and not the server. By logging on to the server directly and printing manually once I was able to resolve the automation issue. 
 Thanks again for your help!

Kevin M · Answer

Is your path in Paperless set up as a mapped drive instead of UNC? (Mapped drives are not available to Task Scheduler).

David Speck · Answer

Without seeing more of your script, it is hard to pinpoint the problem, you may be missing a method or two. 
 Also, at one point, it was a requirement to make sure the user used to authenticate in the script was used at least once to print/preview the form from within the sage 100 desktop. 
 Another thing to consider is that if dealing with paperless, make sure the paperless section from MAS90\Launcher\SOTA.ini has been copied to the MAS90\Home\PVX.ini file. 
 If on version 2018+, make sure the pvxwin32.exe.config file from MAS90\Home has been copied to C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Sage\Common Components and renamed to pvxcom.exe.config.

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BOI - Printing of Purchase Orders - Unattended

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