Printing with Powershell

[Grey_Angel]

I just introduced a new feature in one of my bots that allows the user to select what printer they would like to use. If the user selects a printer that has spaces in it the bot errors out and says the following.

A screenshot of the printer is below it is called “\Hcs05rf01\KONICA MINOLTA PRINT ROOM”

What can I do to stop this error from happening?

Main.xaml (14.6 KB)

[ppr (Peter)]

Give a try by Surrounding the printername

String.Format("Start-Process '{0}' '-Verb PrintTo '{1}' ",  CurrentFile.FullName,  MyPrinterName  )

[Grey_Angel]

Your code does work when there are no spaces

[Grey_Angel]

Is it because I need the printername in Quotes and my variable isn’t doing that?

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Grey_Angel

You can add the quotes to the string like this

Str = """" + str + """"

This will add double wuotes to the string here str is the string variable

Cheers

[ppr (Peter)]

@Grey_Angel

printername in Quotes

we started with single quotes and can use double quotes by escaping with another double quote as mentioned by @Anil_G

here we can use the String.Format method as introduced above and it could look like this:

String.Format("Start-Process '{0}' '-Verb PrintTo ""{1}"" ",  CurrentFile.FullName,  MyPrinterName  )

or with ending / concatenating, where do see 3 double quotes (1 for the escaping, 1 the doublequote, 1 for the string end / start

However just explore what is needed by prototyping the hardcoded command, then port it to the preferred option

[Grey_Angel]

This worked great My final script was
String.Format(“Start-Process '” + CurrentFile.FullName + “’ -Verb PrintTo " + “””" + MyPrinterName + “”“”)