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5.2 (Appendix 1P): Configuration using POSS
This chapter describes the detailed specific procedures necessary for configuring an Output device using a POSS-enabled Device type.
The information from Appendix 1 still largely applies.
Note again, that this applies only to printing from SAPscript and SmartForms, not from ABAP.
5.2.1 Configuring POSS: How to configure an Output device for POSS [by the
Administrator]
Under POSS an Output device can be configured (by the Administrator) to show to the User only those Print Options (device features) and their
Option Values (settings) that are physically available on the device and to possibly restrict the choices available to the User even further.
This procedure can only be applied after the POSS-enabled Device type to be used has been installed on the system.
1. Using transaction SPAD (Spool administration), create an Output Device and map it to the POSS-enabled Device type.
Follow the general steps of "How to configure an Output device" of Appendix 1 above.
On tab 3 (Output Attributes) a POSS-enabled Device type must be specified.
2. POSS Options (features) and Values (settings) can then be configured on tab 5 (Print Options) (see the screenshot below).
Note that this tab is not visible if the specified Device Type is not POSS-enabled.
The Device Type defines all possible Options and Values (for a fully/maximally equipped model).
So initially all Options and Values appear "[X] Enabled".
2a. For each Option, the Administrator may wish to disable it (i.e. make it invisible to the User), if
- it is not available on the device, or
- the User is not supposed to be able to configure it (even though it may be available on the device).
In the "Print Option Status" column this is shown as "[ ] Disabled", and the entry appears greyed out.
2b. The same applies to each of the Values of a given (not disabled) Option.
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2c. Moreover, one of the Values of an Option may be tagged as "preselected".
This implies that this value always becomes effective, and the User cannot see nor specify the other values.
In the "Preselection" column this is shown as "[X]", and "[ ]" for all other values.
Note that currently it is NOT possible to specify a value as default value (and still giving the User the choice of overriding it).
3. At the end, press the [Save] button.
The following screen shows all configurable Print options supported (using the Ricoh Device type) and initially enabled, on the "Print Options"
tab of an Output Device definition under transaction SPAD.