"We are releasing some parts of self-service this week and what I'm discovering is that I'm not able to restrict emPath users from printing to specific locations without having an effect on their ability to print while in other browser applications."

"As many of you know printing while signed in to emPath as a nonemployee or nonmanager is controlled by the print configuration performed at the server level. I want that same control to self-service employees. A Windows network group policy will have too great of an effect on other browser apps. Has anyone addressed this issue within your organizations? "

"What we are attempting to do with this restrict is to help employees safeguard their information. At our hospital staff float to many parts of the building and current network configurations allow them to print any number of printers on our network. From time to time staff have been known to print items to a printer they didn't intent to use and with the ability to pull up their sensitive employee/payroll data, I'm concerned they will mistakenly print materials that others will see."

Response:  A custom solution would to:

(1) Place the following style tag in the PayStubDetails xml file and in other ESS pages with confidential information.



This change will cause a blank page to be printed if the print function is used on this specific page. 

Note that to insure your change takes effect you will need to delete the PayStubDetails file from the emPath cache and stop the w3wp process. 

(2) Place a custom print function on the chosen pages. 

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