Passing Data from MyOrderDesk to Printer's Plan Follow

• Passing a Due Date
• Passing Job Files

Passing a Due Date

In cases where you want to allow the user to have a Due Date on an order, you may want to have that be passed into Printer's Plan. There are two different ways you can do this:

Method 1: Cart Level

To enable a due date to be passed for all orders on your website, you will use the cart level option. 

Navigate to Shopping cart > Checkout options. On this page, check the first Order DatePicker box.

Method 2: Order Form Level

To enable a due date to be passed for only specific order forms on your website, you will use the order form level option.

On the order form you want to pass the due date for, create a new Datepicker, and give the field the name "requestedDeliveryDate". The field name will become {udf_requestedDeliveryDate}

From there, all orders with this field processed will display the due date in Printer's Plan.

Passing Items Notes

Add a merge or text field and make sure to name it "ItemComments"

ItemComments - This allows you to pass information to the Item notes to Printer's Plan and any other MIS system that takes advantage of this field. This has the same function as mod_JobNotes but can be overridden with this field for more customization.

Passing Job Files

How MyOrderDesk passes Job Files to Printer's Plan depends on what type of product is being ordered, how many files are associated with an Order Item, and what your settings are in the Job Options area. 

Helpful Tips/Rules: 

• Uncheck the option "Store/Download Job files in Zips"  if you want in all possible cases, to have files NOT zipped in Printer's Plan. 

• When more than one file is associated with one Item, the files will be zipped even if the option "Store/Download Job files in Zips" is unchecked. Example: your customer uploads two PDFs (front and back) to an Order form.  

• With ezMerge, there is an exception to the rule above. With ezMerge, we will send the Production PDF unzipped and not send the Proof PDF or Proof PNG file.

• If you would like to receive the ezMerge Production, Proof and PNG files in Printer's Plan, make sure to check both the "Store/Download Job files in Zips" and "Add PDF2U & ezMerge Proofs to job archive" option and you will receive a Zip with all files.

• Production PDFs uploaded to a Docmart Item will always be sent unzipped. 

Below is a chart of what you can expect with the combination of settings: