Preparing to Print Form Letters

Before you can print form letters, you need to modify the macros supplied by PeopleSoft to suit your environment and set up your process scheduler configuration file.

Depending on your configuration, you may need to make these changes to the standard Microsoft Word macros that are supplied by PeopleSoft:

• Default path to the empty.doc file that contains all the macros.

• Location of the letters produced.

  The macros create letters in the directory C:\TEMP on your application server. We recommend that you edit the macros to change the location of the letters so that when you print them from Microsoft Word, you print them to your local printers.

To set up the system to print form letters:

1. On the Servers - Distribution page, create a new dedicated Process Scheduler leaving the Transfer System Files to Report Repository check box deselected to run form letters.

2. Define the WINWORD variable in the process scheduler configuration file.

   WINWORD defines the location of the Microsoft Word executable file that the process scheduler runs to produce the form letters. For example, if Microsoft Word is run on the application server, you might have this line in the process scheduler configuration file:

   WINWORD=C:\APPS\OFFICE97\OFFICE

See PeopleTools: PeopleSoft Process Scheduler.