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Cloud Printing

Convention Master supports cloud printing by generating PDFs in a hosted environment, while an on-site computer handles sending the print jobs to the physical printers.

Theory

Convention Master uses a "PDF printer" method to generate print jobs into a designated folder. When cloud printing is enabled, the system provides a URL that allows you to download these PDFs. An on-site script polls this URL and retrieves the next PDF to be printed.

Printing Scripts

The printing scripts can be found in your Convention Master installation folder:

/other/client_print_scripts/cloudprintscripts/

Setting It Up

1. Set Up Your PDF Printer

  1. Obtain the temporary path for your PDF printer(s) from your IT administrator.
  2. Log in to your Convention Master instance.
  3. Navigate to Admin PrintingManage Printers.
  4. Click Add Printer.
  5. Fill in the following:
    1. Name: A friendly name for the printer.
    2. Method: pdf
    3. Path: The server path to your temp folder. This path must be writable by the web server and must end with a trailing slash.
      • Note: If you do not end the path with a slash, you can use that suffix to prefix filenames.
  6. Click Save.

2. Enable Cloud Printing

  1. Log in to your Convention Master instance.
  2. Navigate to Admin PrintingManage Printers.
  3. Click Cloud Printing.
  4. Click Generate New Key and then confirm with OK.
  5. Reopen the Cloud Printing dialog and copy the provided URL.

3. Set Up the Local Printing Script

  1. Use the URL you copied in the previous step with the on-site printing script.
  2. Configure the script to poll the URL regularly and send downloaded PDFs to the appropriate printer.