Modifying a workflow to send job information to Slingshot

To send Avanti Slingshot the time required for the job to complete a single step or a series of steps, you must specify the Slingshot cost center and the milestone status for the single step or for the first and last steps in the series. By associating one or more steps with a cost center, you identify all the time spent on processing by the cost center.
You do not need to associate all steps with Slingshot cost centers.

When you choose the steps to modify in a workflow, make sure that a job goes through one step with a Slingshot milestone status property value of Complete for each Slingshot cost center that you want to report information to.

Before you modify a workflow, define the Avanti Slingshot Connect cost centers.

To modify a workflow to send information to Slingshot:
  1. Click the Workflow tab.
  2. Click the name of the workflow.
  3. Optional: Disable the workflow by clicking the switch to the left of the workflow name.
    If you do not disable the workflow while you edit it, jobs that use this workflow continue to move through steps. When you save, the workflow is momentarily disabled then enabled again. Jobs that are processing in the workflow could move into error.
  4. For each single step whose job information you want to send to Slingshot (one-to-one mapping of step to cost center):
    1. Right-click the step and select Properties.
    2. For the Slingshot cost center property, select the Slingshot cost center that you want to report job information to.
    3. For the Slingshot milestone status property, select Complete.
    4. Click OK.
  5. For each series of steps whose job information you want to send to Slingshot:
    1. Right-click the first step in the series and select Properties.
    2. For the Slingshot cost center property, select the Slingshot cost center that you want to report job information to.
    3. For the Slingshot milestone status property, select In progress.
    4. Click OK.
        Note:
      • For the steps between the first and last steps in the series, you do not need to set the Slingshot cost center and Slingshot milestone status properties. RICOH ProcessDirector reports the time a job spends in these steps to the Slingshot cost center even if you do not set the properties.
    5. Right-click the last step in the series and select Properties.
    6. For the Slingshot cost center property, select the same Slingshot cost center that you selected for the first step.
    7. For the Slingshot milestone status property, select Complete.
    8. Click OK.
  6. Save and enable the workflow.
  7. When the workflow processes a job, check to see if the job information is sent to the specified cost center in Slingshot.
      Note:
    • For a typical implementation of Slingshot, you do these steps to exchange information with RICOH ProcessDirector. Your implementation of Slingshot can have steps that differ from these steps.
    1. Log in to the Avanti Slingshot client.
    2. Navigate to System Setup ⇒ General ⇒ Integration Log.
    3. For the Slingshot job, you should see Export entries in the Type column for the JDF Type that Slingshot uses to send jobs to RICOH ProcessDirector.
    4. If RICOH ProcessDirector successfully imports the job, you should see Import entries in the Type column with HTTP in the Method column, Updating Job in the Purpose column, and Processing inbound JMF Status File for job in the Result Details column.
    5. On the Integration Log, click the arrow to the left of a Slingshot job.
    6. Click Edit (Edit icon) to display the job record in Detail View.
    7. Review the Troubleshooting Details.
      You should see processing information about the Slingshot cost center assigned to the RICOH ProcessDirector workflow steps or printer.
        Note:
      • The External Device ID for the Slingshot cost center has the same name as the Avanti Slingshot Connect cost center.
    8. Navigate to CRM ⇒ Jobs.
    9. Select the Slingshot job.
    10. Click the Cost Summary tab.
      You should see values in the Actual column.
    11. Click the Milestones tab.
      You should see tasks for the Slingshot cost centers with check marks in the Done column.

Related information:

CreateOrderInSlingshot
Defining Avanti Slingshot Connect cost centers
Assigning a cost center and job color to report to a printer
Configuring to send job color information to Slingshot
Sending job status information to Avanti Slingshot
Configuring Slingshot to submit jobs to RICOH ProcessDirector
Setting up a hot folder input device to process Slingshot jobs
Modifying a workflow to send order information to Slingshot
Parent topic: Setting up RICOH ProcessDirector and Avanti Slingshot to exchange information