thank you everyone. @bbahrman - To elaborate more - to give you a high level understanding - we have a team in Europe which has their own inhouse system to fulfill orders - so we need to send them orders in regular intervals. So, that's why a request of sending unique orders in custom intervals.

@neerajrtiwari, gotcha, and you want to batch them into emails at regular intervals, not send on an order by order basis?

yeah, in batches - based on a sales order search that we have.

Guys, if anyone knows How to edit the data that appears in the pdf layout. I particularly want to reduce the number of columns that appear in the item print out - don't want columns like option or maybe even price for example. if anyone knows, would be great to know 🙂 That should complete my quota of 2 queries for the night 😉

@toltmanns - Sure, I will keep that in mind.

@leo Are you using Advanced PDF / HTML Templates?

@michoel Yes!!!

So then Customizations > Forms > Advanced PDF / HTML Templates.. find the form

@neerajrtiwari, I'm thinking a published checkbox on the sales order record, and then some way to a) send and b)update )(check the published box). Trying to think of the best way to do this though. Suitescript I'm sure can do it, but I'm thinking there's a simpler solution with workflows or mass updates

If it hasn't been changed too much from stock NS, you should be ok with the WYSIWYG editor, otherwises you will need to edit the actual template code

@michoel yup, in the form but when editing that .... you don't get to edit what appears in the selected element, correct?

@michoel ahhh so edit the html template and not the form..

apologies ont aht

Correct

@bbahrman makes sense. I wasn't sure how to trigger the workflow or mass update based on sending of an email from a saved search.

@michoel Thank you so much for your help- couldn't have done it without you! 🙂

@leo Sure no problem

@neerajrtiwari I can't really think of a way to do this without scripting

With scripting, I would probably use a scheduled script to run at regular intervals, and like you suggest, use a checkbox to control which have already been processed in a previous batch

I was thinking the workflow would work, but am realizing that it would process and email each order individually, hoping someone knows a bit more about executing on it with a workflow, but scripting should work fairly well.

juuust while we’re on advanced pdf / html templates (not to steal your thunder @leo or @michoel), has anyone come across a way to automatically fire a job to the printer when the pdf is displayed in the user’s browser? our legacy system was OS native so it had all the nice print hooks in the word (users could click the print button and the job is sent straight to the printer, no system print dialogue). now our users are waiting for the pdf to generate > select print > system print dialogue displays and they go from there.

@mattb We do exactly this

Using a script to email to an address that is monitored by an in house server and spooled to a printer

@michoel: already starting to regret dropping the inhouse server 😉 (we’re a team of 10 imacs and not much else)

@mattb there might be a BFO script you could insert into the template, but not sure

although there's a part of me that's thinking "first world problems......"

@bbahrman @michoel - Thank you both for your inputs. I'll check the scripting options.

@mwalker It actually makes a HUGE difference for us

@mwalker: haha! could very well be true. we’re kinda in the manual processing mode at the moment and haven’t quite got to doing things in bulk yet. seems waiting for the printing ticket pdf to generate then go through the usual print steps is bit of a drag