How To Set Printer Options On A Template

Have y'all always used a Word Template in Power Apps?

Choose Word Template and select entity

If you take non, take a look at this documentation page. For the model-driven apps, it's one of the easiest means to chop-chop create standardized word documents for your entities.

Although, Word templates do come up with some limitations – I won't go into the details here since it's not what this mail service is about. I use Word templates occasionally, and they work swell where I don't striking those limitations.

This was i of the projects where Word templates seemed to fit nifty. We had a few dissimilar document to print, at that place were not deep relationships to display, we could alive with no conditional logic, etc. And, then, just nigh the time we were supposed to go live, one of the business organisation folks was looking at it and posed a very interesting question:

"So, do I have to recollect to switch the printer every time I employ this?"

See, for some of the records, in that location would exist more than one template, and they would have to be printed on different printers. 1 of the printers would be a regular printer, but the other one would be a plastic carte du jour printer. And, yes, if somebody did ship a 10-pages long regular certificate to the card printer, that would be a waste of plastic cards. The contrary of that would be sending a card template to the regular printer, simply that's much less problematic.

Seems unproblematic, correct? Let's just set the default printer and be done with information technology, or, at to the lowest degree, and then I thought.

Unfortunately for u.s.a., Microsoft Discussion (2016 in our case) turned out to be more optimized that expected Smile

If you have 2 printers, and if y'all set one of those as the default printer, you would probably expect the default printer to be selected by default?

The fashion it works, though, is:

Imagine you've opened a document in Word
Then y'all printed that certificate to a non-default printer
And then you opened another document in a different Word window
And you are trying to print that second certificate

The printer you'll run into selected past default is the same printer that you used for the first certificate:

Isn't that awesome? You lot don't demand to choose, that's the one you used before… except that we'd only waste material a bunch of plastic cards in our scenario.

The trouble seems to be related to the fact that there is just one winword procedure, no matter how many give-and-take documents you lot have open on the screen:

And, information technology seems, it's that process that's actually storing "current" printer selections for the user.

So, how can we work effectually this performance optimization in Microsoft Discussion?

We accept to close all discussion windows, and so the process is unloaded from memory, and the side by side fourth dimension we open up a document in Give-and-take and try sending it to the printer, Give-and-take volition be using default printer again:

I wish there were a setting somewhere…

Well, in that location are articles suggesting to use macros in this scenario to choose the printer, but, since it's a word template, and since there volition be different users fifty-fifty on the same "last" machine, I am non sure how well this will work and if it will work at all. Might even so demand to try.