Transmission medium "8: Special function"

Hi Experts,
I have got an situation. I have made changes in customization for an output type of a billing document and kept transmission medium as 8: Special Function. And this output type is supposed to trigger PDF copy of invoice in a particular server. But this output is in red status in billing document. And it seems that the output is not triggered at all.
Please guide what changes am I supposed to make for this to trigger successfully.
Thanks,
Chetan.

Dear Chetan,
"Output is not triggered at all"
It means there could be improper assinment.
Kindly make sure that output type is properly assigned to output determination procedure and that procedure is assigned to correspondig billing type.
Also,
Check output type has access sequence which in turn will have condition table assigned to it.
I think this will solve you purpose
regards,
sagar

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