Passing Printer as a parameter in the bursting control file

Question

One of our requirements is to print our report on different printers based on the user input. To acheive this, I am passing printer name as one of the parameter in our concurrent process. In the bursting java process, I set the properties as
Properties prop= new Properties();
prop.put("user-variable:PRINTER_NAME","ipp://146.141.12.128/printers/lp1");
dp.setConfig(prop);
dp.process();
In the control file, I am pasing print delivery as :
<xapi:print id="printer1" printer="$(PRINTER_NAME)" copies="1" />
The system throws an error 'java string out of expection' and takes PRINTER_NAME as null in the print delivery. The same thing works perfeclty for E-Mail server if I pass name of the e-mail server in parameter and in the java and control file..I make the following changes:
Properties prop= new Properties();
prop.put("user-variable:SERVER_NAME","cns.wits.ac.za");
dp.setConfig(prop);
dp.process();
<xapi:delivery>
<xapi:email server="$(SERVER_NAME)" port="25"
from="[email protected]" reply-to ="">
<xapi:message id="123" to="${EMAIL}"
Can anybody please help me with this..Has anybody tried passing printer as a parameter in the control file..

Answer 1

Try curly brackets i.e. ${PRINTER_NAME} instead of $(PRINTER_NAME).
Regards
Ashish