Papercut tray icon - what to do when it's hidden to students

[timbo343]

I may have asked this before but we are about to go down the route of papercut MF and need to show the balance and tray icon - this is where my query lies.

 

I have got the local-cache version starting at logon for students however we run a locked down environment to the point where we disable notification items (system tray) and remove desktop icons. I was wondering what the best way would be to get round this as the balance window doesnt automatically show at logon and the tray icon doesnt show so how would students see the balance window.

 

The only way i can get the balance window to show is via the tray and that mean i have to alter the group policy object.

 

I did have a schedule task that would run every 5 mins which would kill the process and then re-run the process. This meant that any students that killed the balance window the task would run 5 mins later.

[minimoo]

do you have an intranet/moodle or similar in house that you could display the balance on ?

 

i.e. students could see the balance elsewhere, the tray icon remaining hidden until you do a papercut print and it displays a dialog

 

*or*

 

What about writing a pre-print script hook that pops up a box showing their current balance and asking if they wish to continue the job.

 

Don't need to modify group policy then.

[timbo343]

Oooh! hang on! we have an intranet/landing page which has links to useful sites. It will have a link to the user's papercut account but is there a way to display the users balance on the webpage?

[minimoo]

first quick question: do you run HAP or something different?

 

But there's another post on forum: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/enterprise-software/134343-papercut.html

 

and papercut have: http://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/ExternalDataSourceAPI

 

As part of that, they have some 'gadgets/widgets' @ http://www.papercut.com/products/ng/manual/ch-user-services-gadgets.html which might be useable if you can only edit the html. If you can do some coding, I think you can use getUserAccountBalance from the xml web service api @ http://www.papercut.com/products/ng/manual/apdx-tools-web-services.html

Edited April 7, 2015 by minimoo

[timbo343]

Yeah we run hap but only for staff home access. The intranet page for students is a basic html page - nothing flash.

[minimoo]

Ahh, I moved to using HAP as our intranet page for staff/students on site and at home - and adding a custom news tile, upay (our catering service) tile etc. With content being on the VLE system.

 

I asked the question as I thought I had coded a papercut tile for hap, but realised after asking that I never got that far ;p

[vizubeat]

@MicrodigitUK might be able to help - he's come up with some cool Moodle and Frog PaperCut widgets.

 

...and hopefully if he sees this it might remind him to reply to my email about coming to the pub this week!

[notalot]

We have our intranet showing the students print credits on our intranet site.

 

The code isn't pretty but if you want ill pull it from our site

Edited April 8, 2015 by notalot

[timbo343]

Ive just had a play with the papercut webwidgets and managed to get my data to display if I put the username in however the code that papercut give for ASP doesn't work as we don't host the html page via IIS or anything like that, it is mealy a html file which sits there and users get this html file as their home page.

[timbo343]

I missed the .config file which has the options in for the client. After a quick email to the guys who are setting papercut up for us i feel a little bit dumb now.

 

Papercut now shows as what looks like a pinned taskbar item and no system tray icons are showed. Using the following at the moment:

 

silent=Y

#minimised=y

#neverrequestidentity=y

noquit=y

disabletrayicon=y

 

the rest of the options are as default.