Configure NextGen® Background Business Processor Preferences
Before you can set NextGen® Background Business Processor to automate NextGen® Enterprise PM processes, you must enter some basic application default preferences.
Log into the NextGen® Background Business Processor Manager.
Select File > Preferences.
The BBP System Preferences window opens.
In the Excel export process list, select one of the following:
To create the export file directly at the specified location on your computer, select Use standard Excel process (most common).
To create the export file locally and then copy to the specified location on your computer with the use of NextGen® Background Business Processor, select Create locally, copy destination (rarely used).
To choose the default printer, on the Printer field, select the ellipsis button and then select the printer.
Note: The list of printers from which you can choose is the same list of printers available to Windows ® operating system on your computer in which NextGen® Background Business Processor is installed. To increase the number of available printers, you must add a printer through the Windows ® control panel.
To set the default location for the export file, on the File export location field, select the ellipsis button and then select a folder on either the network or the directory on your computer.
Note:NextGen® Background Business Processor converts network share drive letters to their corresponding UNC (Universal Naming Convention) names. For example, NextGen® Background Business Processor could convert Z:\ to \\Snoopy\administration. NextGen® Background Business Processor makes this conversion each time a network drive letter is specified for an export file.
On the Export overwrite option list, select one of the following:
Use the specified file name (and overwrite the file it exists)
Add a timestamp to the file name (filename_yyyymmddhhmmss.ext)
On the 'Run using' setting field, select one of the following applications to execute the Memorized Reports:
PM/EHR
ReportServer
To specify the black out period for which no packages can run on the server, on the Database Blackout Periods for [database name] section, select the cursor in each day and time check box.
On the Set the number of minutes a Queued Package should wait on a currently running Package on the same Server field, enter time.
