Skip to content

Options Dialog Box for Print Screen and Capture

How do I get to this dialog box?

From Print Screen

  1. Start a ALC, UTS, or T27 session.

  2. Initiate a screen print.

    The steps depend on your user interface mode.

    User interface mode Steps
    User Interface Mode Steps
    Ribbon or InfoConnect Browser From the Quick Access Toolbar, click .
    TouchUX Tap the Folder icon and then under Print, select Print.
    Classic MDI From the File menu, choose Settings.

  3. Click Options.

From Capture

  1. Start a ALC, UTS, or T27 session.

  2. Start Capture.

    The steps depend on your user interface mode.

    User interface mode Steps
    InfoConnect Ribbon On the Session ribbon, from the Capture Data group, click Capture.
    InfoConnect Browser From the InfoConnect menu, expand the Capture item, and then click Capture.
    TouchUX Tap the Wrench icon and then under Tools, select Capture.
    Classic MDI From the File menu, select Capture.

  3. Click Options.

The options available in this dialog box depend on whether you have configured printer of file output in the Printer Settings Dialog Box for Print Screen and Capture.

Option Description
Document name In printed output, this name replaces the &F variable.
Header For printed output, enter the information that you want to appear in the header of the printed document (up to 80 characters). This header appears one line above the top margin. If you do not want to use a header, simply delete the default values. You can also use these variables (they are not case-sensitive):
&P is the page number
&F is the value specified for Document name.
&D is the date
&T is the time
&C is the name of the Windows computer that issued the print command.
Footer For printed output, enter the information that you want to appear in the footer of the printed document (up to 80 characters). This footer appears one line below the bottom margin. If you do not want to use a footer, simply delete the default values. You can also use these variables (they are not case-sensitive):
You can also use the following variables: &P, &F, &D, and &T.
File settings Specify how file output is handled if you selected Print To File or Capture To File in the Printer Settings Dialog Box (Print Screen and Capture).
Auto name the file sends captured data to a file in your InfoConnect user data folder. This file name appears automatically in the File Name text box.
Note: The InfoConnect user data folder location is configurable using the Data Location tab during installation. The default is C:\Users\username\Documents\Micro Focus\InfoConnect.
The file name is the first five letters of the session name, followed by a letter for the month (January is A, February is B, and so forth), and the day of the month. The file extension is .TXT. For example, if the session name is TCPA_1 and the file is created on April 15, the file name is TCPA_D15.TXT.
Append file adds new content to the end of an existing file.
File name specifies an alternate name and/or location. for the output file Available when Auto name the file is not selected.
Capture Mode Normal captures processed data as it appears on the screen (this preserves the format of data that appears in forms).
Raw captures all data as it is received from the host (this includes control and escape code sequences and can be useful for debugging the data stream).