Scheduling a webpage print task

[u8dmtm]

Our school's notices take the form of a web-page which is printed every morning and circulated in registers. Does anyone know how I can schedule the particular web-page to be printed every day at a given time automatically so that a nice big pile of notices is sitting waiting for collection from a printer first thing each morning?

Since this would be unattended obviously any solution must not require user input.

[plexer]

How about:

Option Explicit
Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run "c:\temp\test.htm" 
Wscript.Sleep 1000
objShell.SendKeys "^p" 
WScript.Sleep 1000
objShell.SendKeys "{tab}"
WScript.Sleep 300
objShell.SendKeys "p"
WScript.Sleep 1000
objShell.SendKeys "%"
WScript.Sleep 100
objShell.SendKeys "f"
WScript.Sleep 100
objShell.SendKeys "c"
WScript.Quit

Just change the filename to the html file you wish to open.

Ben

[mac_shinobi]

How about:

Option Explicit
Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run "c:\temp\test.htm" 
Wscript.Sleep 1000
objShell.SendKeys "^p" 
WScript.Sleep 1000
objShell.SendKeys "{tab}"
WScript.Sleep 300
objShell.SendKeys "p"
WScript.Sleep 1000
objShell.SendKeys "%"
WScript.Sleep 100
objShell.SendKeys "f"
WScript.Sleep 100
objShell.SendKeys "c"
WScript.Quit

Just change the filename to the html file you wish to open.

Ben

Couldnt you simplify it and just use this from the site below :

http://sastools.com/b2/post/79393894

But use it in a vbscript and just use windows scheduling ( http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm ) to assign the vbscript to execute that each morning

Sendkeys is a bit dangerous considering that you have to ensure that the app or file you need to do things on has to be in focus otherwise you will end up doing other things.

[ChrisH]

AutoIt us bette for sending keys and making sure windows are active etc.

[plexer]

Option Explicit
Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run "rundll32.exe mshtml.dll,PrintHTML test.html"
WScript.Quit

Then.

Ben

[ChrisH]

Or you could just cut that down to one line with a batch script...... :P nah I'm joking VBS always behaves nicer in most circumstances.

[webman]

Or schedule rundll32.exe to run with the parameters mshtml.dll,PrintHTML test.html ... 8)

[plexer]

That'd do it as well.

I'm going to give up I think.

Ben

[webman]

I take it somebody's had their head buried in a VBScript help file/manual all day then Ben?

[plexer]

Not really no just been looking at stuff throughout the day I tested my senkeys one and it worked ok but there are other ways too.

Ben

[NetworkGeezer]

Or schedule rundll32.exe to run with the parameters mshtml.dll,PrintHTML test.html ... 8)

I see you brought your razor Mr. Occam

[webman]

Why yes... yes I did

[u8dmtm]

Thanks for all those sugestions, its working fine now.

[ITWombat]

I see you brought your razor Mr. Occam

As this is EduGeek that should be

I see you brought your iron Mr. Sheppard

[webman]

I'm getting board of all these ironing jokes now :?

Sorry 8)