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Print Attribute Panels

The Online System provides two types of print attribute panels: main and optional.

The main type of print attribute panel includes a list of the most commonly used print attributes. These attributes are shown as data fields, available to users in ALL mode, SARO mode, and EXPO mode.

The default data contained in these fields comes from the print data archived with the output when that output was originally produced.

To see a full list of print attributes on the Print Output Parameters panel, enter the O command and press Enter. For more information, see the Print Output Parameters topic later in this chapter.

The optional type of print attribute panel offers a shortened list of four print attributes shown as data fields for the print process.

These panels—the primary optional panel and the alternate optional panel—are provided as shortcuts from the full list of attributes in the main attribute panel for ALL, SARO, and EXPO users. These panels are the exclusive print attribute panels for SAR and EXP users. The data contained in these fields is kept by the product on a per-session basis.

Print attributes are extracted from //OUTPUT statements at the time output is produced. For reports produced through CA Deliver, attributes for reprinting are extracted only if those reports were archived with the Automatic Report Archival feature of CA View System Extensions.