topic NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders in Qlik NPrinting

NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

bdunsmoor — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 18:40:54 GMT

Does anyone know if NPrinting can distribute a report to a network folder? Or only to a folder on the NPrinting Server? (I tried to schedule an NPrinting task to deliver a report to a network folder, but it didn't work.)

According to the Qlik NPrinting Help site: "With the Qlik NPrinting Server, you can deliver reports to a specified folder location. You can create destination folders and use them in tasks. All folder paths are referenced to the Qlik NPrinting Server hard disks."

Below is a screen shot from the Qlik NPrinting Help site, which has me confused.

http://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/September2017/Content/AdministeringQVNprinting/SetFolderDestination/Folder-destination.htm

Re: NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

devarasu07 — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 02:34:31 GMT

Hi,

check this steps, the same method should work for Nprinting 17

Nprinting 16 network share drive

Re: NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:03:20 GMT

NPrinting 17 can distribute to shared folders too.. just create destination folder first with the servername and shared location.

I am not sure whether this is a supported feature, but i am using it successfully

cheers

Lech

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Re: NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

Giuseppe_Panella — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:18:52 GMT

HI you can take a look at this video to have a step by step guide

Re: NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

Ruggero_Piccoli — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:27:02 GMT

Hi,

The sentence "All folder paths are referenced to the Qlik NPrinting Server hard disks." means that the paths you insert in the destination folder configuration are paths related to the computer where Qlik NPrinting Server is installed. For example, if you create a destination folder with the path "C:\Reports, the C drive is the C drive of the Qlik NPrinting Server.

If the destination folder is a network folder you must use UNC (Universal Naming Convention). For example, \\ServerName\FolderName. Mapped folders are not supported, so you cannot map \\ServerName\FolderName as Z drive and insert Z in the folder configuration. You must use \\ServerName\FolderName.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

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Re: NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

bdunsmoor — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:57:44 GMT

Thank you, Giuseppe! That was very helpful.

Re: NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

bdunsmoor — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:58:38 GMT

Thank you Devarsu!

Re: NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

bdunsmoor — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:59:00 GMT

Thank you Lech!

Re: NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

bdunsmoor — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:34:59 GMT

Thank you Ruggero! That's exactly what I needed to know!

Props to Ruggero Piccoli: Thank You!

Thanks for all that you do!

Re: NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

MIKIEMILLER — Thu, 09 May 2019 20:04:51 GMT

Ruggero,

So I have to use the UNC, but it is still not working. My destination folder is two words. Con Acct

I have tried it three ways, and yet none of them work. Would you happen to have any suggestion?

\\ServerName\Con Acc\

\\ServerName\'Con Acc'\

\\ServerName\"Con Acc"\

Re: NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

Daniel_Jenkins — Fri, 10 May 2019 02:37:18 GMT

Hi,

You should not have to do anything. In my testing it just works:

Are you sure your service account is able to access that folder and write to it?

HTH - Daniel.

Re: NPrinting 17 - Distributing reports to folders

MIKIEMILLER — Fri, 10 May 2019 13:38:43 GMT

So it just needs access to that server location. It does not need to be on the Qlik Server. I will get with my admin about that. Thanks.