How to Save Banner Reports as a PDF

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Overview

Many people run reports in Banner and print them to a physical Banner printer for paper output. This article describes how to save those outputs to PDF instead of physically printing directly from Banner.

Instructions

1. Open Form/Report you want to run. (SWRCGSR is the example in this document)
2. Change the Printer to DATABASE.
   
   

3. Run choose the report options as you normally would, click into the Submission block, press Save.

4.  Note the green update in the upper-right hand corner of the screen that a .lis file was created. At this point you should wait a minute for a Job Submission Log email to reach you. Once that has arrived, you know your .lis file output is ready in Banner.
   
   

5.  Once you have reviewed the .lis output, go to Related > Review Output (GJIREVO). You can try the Review PDF/plain text output [GJAJLIS] option, but you may not have the permissions to use that Tool.
   
   
    

6. Search for the .lis file output (you can search by date/time) and press OK. The report output will show on the Banner window.
   
   
    

7. To save the report to PDF, go to Tools > Show Document (Save and Print File).
   
   
    

8. On print screen, choose Save as PDF as Destination, and uncheck Headers and Footers to clean up the document (if preferred). Press Save to save the report as PDF to your desired location