Papercut Scripting

[clarky2k3]

Hi,

 

In papercut I know you can add a header to put a username etc... onto work that had printed, is there anyway this could just be for student users and not just anyone who prints to a certain printer?

[Edu-IT]

Yes. I'll dig out the script we use and send it to you? It excludes certain user groups, not printers though, but to do that just don't run this script on that printer you want to exclude. Would that help?

[Edu-IT]

You'd need to set your variables depending on your groups in AD.

 

/* Script 3 - watermarking */

var STUDENTS_GROUP = 'Students';

var STAFF_GROUP = 'Teaching Staff';

var STAFF_GROUP1 = 'Non-Teach Staff'

 

if (inputs.user.isInGroup(STUDENTS_GROUP)) {

/*

* The user is in the students group, set a watermark. If the printer has

* watermarking settings defined (e.g. font size, location on page) then

* they will be taken into account. The special replacements %user% and

* %date% will be replaced by the name of the user printing the job and the

* date and time the job was printed. For a full list of available

* replacements see the user manual section on watermarking.

*/

actions.job.setWatermark('Printed by %user% at %date%');

}

 

if (inputs.user.isInGroup(STAFF_GROUP) || inputs.user.isInGroup(STAFF_GROUP1)) {

/*

* The user is in the staff group, disable watermarking. This means that

* if there was a watermark defined on the printer it will be overridden.

*/

actions.job.setWatermark('');

}

 

 

}

 

 

function matchesAny(str, matchStrs, actions) {

if (str == null || matchStrs == null) {

return false;

}

 

for (var i in matchStrs) {

if (str.match(matchStrs)) {

return true;

}

}

 

return false;

}

 

 

[Duckstein]

This sounds like something I would like to do....whereabouts does the scripting have to go? I guess you change the above script with the correct AD groups...

[Duckstein]

OK...I tried it, but still no printing of the watermark!