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I can't print the information from Revenue/Expense Inquiry or Freeze Grant responsibilities using the printer icon or the Action Print navigation path.

 

We have been notified by Oracle that a problem with the JInitiator software, in conjunction with the technology used to develop the Revenue/Expense and Freeze Grant/View Attributes screens, prevents printing to local printers. (This includes many laser printers that are widely used on campus, such as HP LaserJets.) Unfortunately, we are not sure when the problem will be corrected. Before trying the workaround suggested in the last paragraph, please consider the following:

Freeze/Unfreeze grants offers a complete action history of changes made to each Freeze status, indicating the date, the time, and the username of the person who took the action, so printing may not be necessary.

Revenue/Expense Inquiry is an on-line view of the current status of a fund. This view is not a replacement for monthly reports. Many different activities, such as overhead and revenue reclassification, only occur at the end of the accounting period and affect the true Budget Balance Available.

Before you print, ask yourself how the recipient of the printout will use the information. You would not want to provide only a part of the financial picture, which may be misleading. For example, it would be misleading to print Compensation category object code data showing funds available without including the information that the Current Expense category has a deficit (offsetting the Compensation category surplus).

Workaround: Although we can't guarantee that the following solution will work for all users, if you still need to print, please try copying the screen image to the clipboard and pasting it into another application (such as MS Word) and print from there. Try Shift Alt Print Screen, then open the application (MS Word) and select Edit-Paste.

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