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#25018 - 11/10/09 04:12 AM One user, multiple business cards
JT Offline
OL User

Registered: 01/30/08
Posts: 52
Hi, we have an issue with one client where there may be only one PSW user for the entire company,
this user will be responsible for ordering business cards for up to 30 people.

Do you have any suggestions for making this as easy as possible for this person?

Ideally one business card template with a drop down menu for the name, and the rest of the fields filled automatically based on this selection. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

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#25019 - 11/11/09 03:38 AM Re: One user, multiple business cards
Anonymous
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Doing this in PrintShop Web, would require maintenance of the drop down list and custom jqueries - not an easy or time-saving task.

I would recommend this user keeps an Excel file with all the contact persons. One of the rows can be the amount of business cards that need to be ordered for each person (ie that month).

Those in need of business cards will inform this person, and the Excel sheet is updated with the requested amount of cards. The PrintShop Mail template will be set up to use number of copies of the layouts linked to the field with the amount of businesscards for each person (skip entirely if 0)

Periodically, the Excel sheet is uploaded to PSW, where the job will be generated all at once. After this, the client will reset all amounts in the excel sheet to 0, after which everyone can file their requests again to be put in the Excel sheet, and so on.

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#25020 - 11/13/09 05:33 AM Re: One user, multiple business cards
JT Offline
OL User

Registered: 01/30/08
Posts: 52
Thanks. We have looked at this option but the problem is it will create an order quantity for the number of records on the file, not the quantity entered on the database file...

For the layout action expression I have -

Code:
 IF(VAL([Quantity])>1, Print, Skip) 
Which does output the correct PDF and softproof, but loses the quantity entered on the file.

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