Print Documents

Print Documents

Printing is an integral part of most workplaces, as hard copies of documents, receipts, and reports are often required. Robomotion enables you to disengage yourself from repetitive printing and focus on more creative and productive tasks.

What Print Documents can do

• Seed Fixtures Dir (Core.Programming.Function) — sets msg.fixtures_dir to $Home$/templates/desktop-automation/print-documents/fixtures.
• Intro Dialog (Core.Dialog.MessageBox, info) titled Print documents explaining the flow.
• Seed File List (Core.Programming.Function) — sets msg.files_to_print to [<fixtures_dir>/hello.txt].
• Loop via Core.Flow.Label + Core.Programming.ForEach over msg.files_to_print → msg.file_to_print:
  • Build Print Command (Core.Programming.Function) — sets msg.print_args to ['-NoProfile', '-Command', 'Start-Process -FilePath "<file>" -Verb Print'].
  • Send To Printer (Core.Process.StartProcess, optBackground: true, continueOnError: true) — inFilePath: powershell, inArguments: msg.print_args.
  • Core.Flow.GoTo back to the loop label.
• After the loop exits: Core.Flow.Stop.

Behind the scenes

• Printing is delegated to Windows' shell Print verb via Start-Process -Verb Print, so each file is opened by its registered handler and sent to the system default printer.
• The flow is intentionally fire-and-forget — optBackground: true and continueOnError: true mean one failing print won't block subsequent files, and there's no per-file confirmation or progress dialog.
• msg.files_to_print is hard-seeded to the bundled hello.txt; swap in a file-picker or directory listing upstream to drive real batches.