{"id":5344,"date":"2017-11-02T18:19:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=5344"},"modified":"2020-07-01T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:54:11","slug":"fishbowl-integration-with-eformz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/fishbowl-integration-with-eformz\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishbowl Integration with eFORMz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fishbowlinventory.com\/\">Fishbowl<\/a> is a warehouse management solution (WMS) that uses JasperReports to create reports. When printing a report to your virtual printer from Fishbowl, the file will be blank and only 1KB. To be able to use eFORMz with Fishbowl, we need to make some changes to a Fishbowl file and add a .jar file to the classpath.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Step 1<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nAdd the eFORMz Java Print Service Provider jar file (<a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eFORMzPrinter.zip\">eFORMzPrinter<\/a>.jar) to the Fishbowl\/lib folder.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Step 2<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go to the Fishbowl\/client\/bin folder and open the Fishbowl Client.vmoptions file. This file can be opened with Notepad or Notepad++.<\/p>\n<p>Add the following line at the bottom of the file:<\/p>\n<pre>-DefzPrintServicesDefaultDirectory=&lt;config directory&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>The &lt;config directory&gt; refers to a directory created to contain the PrintServices.xml file. It is also the directory that will contain the folders for the intercepted output from Fishbowl. Typically, we use \/minisoft or \/opt\/minisoft.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the list of printers when you try to print from Fishbowl there should be two new printers, Printer1 and Printer2. You can use either printer to print.<\/p>\n<p>If you go to the Minisoft\/printerservices folder, depending on which printer you printed to, there should be a folder named Printer1 or Printer2. In this folder you will find files with the .efd format. You can use the file in this folder in the eFORMz Composer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishbowl is a warehouse management solution (WMS) that uses JasperReports to create reports. When printing a report to your virtual printer from Fishbowl, the file will be blank and only 1KB. To be able to use eFORMz with Fishbowl, we need to make some changes to a Fishbowl file and add a .jar file to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[260,107,261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5344"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8159,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions\/8159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}