Autosave for users in multiple departments and My documents path location

dzh · October 16, 2012, 10:00am

Hi
We have installed ver1.5.0 and need to get autosave to save in each users my documents folder. Each users folder is redirected onto the server but the path is not the same for all users as they are in departmental folders for example \\domain.co.uk\data\home\ACCOUNTS\My Documents so we can not use a generic autosave path as we have done on other sites such as:
\\domain.co.uk\data\Home\<REDMON_USER>\My Documents\PDF\

If I try \PDF it works fine for me but then all users print jobs end up in my My Documents folder as the server just sees the full path to my profile.

Is there a variable to pick up each user My documents path when they print regardless of where that may be?

Thanks

Robin.W · October 23, 2012, 6:20am

Hi,

there is no token for this, all possible ones are listed here: http://www.pdfforge.org/content/auto-save-mode

regards,

Robin

dzh · October 23, 2012, 6:30am

Hi there
Can you suggest a work around we can do or is there no way currently we could implement the software at this site?

Thanks

Robin.W · October 23, 2012, 7:26am

Hi,

you could write a script which does this as a work around.

regards,

Robin

dzh · October 23, 2012, 7:49am

Hi there
OK what do we need to get the script to do?

dzh · October 24, 2012, 6:09am

I’ve installed the Group policy addins for PDFcreator and that has an autosave path option under user polices but even if that uses the My Files option it puts it in teh persons who is running the pdfcreator executable My Docs. Also in the registry if follows the user running the process.

Robin, can you give me a point in the right direction for any work around, scripts etc?

Thanks

adrianmarsh · October 25, 2012, 4:55am

I think theres two ways.

1) Have different print servers for each department… Maybe not acceptable for you

2) Have PDFCreator put the PDFs in a folder, with a recognizable name format. Maybe username.

You could then write a powershell script to look in that folder, parse through the files and reference the username back into Active Directory, and from that you can pull out the dept, home folder etc. then move the file

Its not great, but pdfcreator is limited to what the Print Spooler has to work with (the list above). So dept, home folders etc, aren’t available to it.

For me, I’m doing something similar across multiple sites, but I’m trying method 1) first.