Overview
Tudodesk comes with a built-in, fully integrated automation engine. This powerful feature can save your team time and automate tasks at scale, such as printing tickets, work orders and labels.
The automated Print action can save your team tedious time printing documents by automating this process as your jobs are moved across your workflow.
Set-up
Tudodesk back-office
Printnode (required) - see here for installation instructions.
What's this for?
How to automatically print using Printnode when an event occurs or a document status changes.
For example, we will use the JOB board to trigger a label print when a job is checked in and marked as scheduled.
You may also want to automate the printing of Packing sheets when jobs are marked as Ready.
Steps
Go to the Job Board (Or whatever board you want to trigger printing from).
Click 'Show menu' on the board menu right side.
Click 'Board automations'.
Check if you have an existing event created for the Status on which you want to trigger the event. You can edit this event or add a new event using the 'Create automation' button.
If editing an existing event, skip steps 6-9 below.
Enter a friendly name for your new workflow, such as 'Job queued'.
Select Status Changed for the event trigger.
Select the status name from the status drop drown (this is the Status that will trigger printing.)
Click Continue.
Click the '+' icon from the automation editor to insert a new action.
Select 'Trigger Printnode' from the list of actions.
Set the delay to 'Right away' in the action delay input. Note that you can insert delay events in the automation steps before the email event if you want to trigger the notification after a more extended period. Each delay event can be up to 7-days.
Select the destination printer in the select box.
Select the required template or label in the template select box.
Click Save.
Click Save again on the editor screen (Green button bottom right).
Click Turn on to set the automation live.
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