Re: Printing multiple invoices from a JSP.

["Tom Jedrzejewicz" <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/10/06, Jake M <jakeroc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello wise people;
> I am really close to ending a project but am running out of ideas as to
> how
> to implement the closing part. Okay, I have two .jsp files. In my first
> .jsp(printinvoice.jsp), I query the iSeries and bring up all the invoices
> to
> be printed and in my second .jsp(produceinvoice.jsp) I create the invoice
> and the user can hit the print button and print that invoice. Now, the
> user
> wants to print multiple invoices at the same time. Something along the
> lines
> of having check boxes by the invoices on printinvoice.jsp.



While I have no .jsp experience I have done some CGIDEV2 programming.  If I
mis-speak about what can be done with a .jsp, one of the experts will
correct me.

In CGIDEV2, you would use something like ...
<input type="checkbox" name="cb_invoice" value="/%invoice_number%/">

When the form is submitted, the values of any CHECKED cb_invoice checkboxes
will be returned to the server.  CGIDEV2 has functions to retrieve all of
them loaded into an array, so you can roll through the array.  I imagine in
the .jsp world there is some way to get at the returned values and process
them.

A quick erfix that might be palatable to the users is to have the "print"
links open a new window (or tab) using the "target=" attribute, so that they
can roll down the list and select multiple items.

Good luck.