Selecting a Default Print Format

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the delivered default print format for PeopleSoft Internet Architecture. In prior PeopleSoft releases, HP LIS was the delivered default format.

The delivered sample SQR invoices in PeopleSoft Billing appear differently in PDF format than in HP LIS format. Therefore, you should review and evaluate these differences before deciding which format best suites your invoice print needs.

You can use two methods for printing delivered SQR invoices in HP LIS format:

  • Select HP in the Format field on the Process Scheduler Request page.

  • Override the system-delivered default format.

Note: If you print invoices using the standard billing and bill inquiry pro forma and invoice buttons, the invoice prints automatically using defaults, and the Process Scheduler Request page does not appear.

You can configure the system installation to make HP LIS the default print format for all SQR invoice printing.

To configure the system to make HP LIS the default print format:

  1. Select PeopleTools > Process Scheduler > Process Types.

  2. Search by the process type SQR Report% and click the Search button.

  3. In the returned results, select the operating system and database type that corresponds to the environment.

  4. On the Type Definition page, copy the entire value of the Parameter List field.

  5. Select PeopleTools, Process Scheduler, Processes.

  6. Search by the process type SQR Report% and click the Advanced Search button.

  7. Enter BIIVCPN in the Process Name field and click the Search button.

  8. Select the BIIVCPN entry that appears.

  9. On the Process Definitions - Override Options page, select Override in the Parameter List field and paste the value of the Parameter List field from the Type Definition page that you copied in Step 4.

  10. Search for the string OF %%OUTDESTFORMAT%% and change this to OF 4.

  11. Click Save.

    The system now uses the HP LIS output format every time that you run SQR BIIVCPN. You can follow these same steps for the remaining SQR pro forma and invoice print reports: for example, BIIVCLN, BIIVCLC, and BIIVCPC.

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Process Scheduler