Printing

How can I change the way Schedule+ printouts look?

Microsoft's web site says:

There are no printing customization capabilities built into Schedule+. However, you can export your appointments from Schedule+ in text format, and use a standard text editor to customize the information.

Not surprisingly, this is a lie. In fact, you can modify the .PRT files that appear in your Schedule+ folder. Take a look at them; they're just plain ASCII-text.
However, you wouldn't want to try go make changes casually.

For an example, though, here's a change to make Schedule+ print in 15-minute intervals, which was posted by Bradley Batt (BBatt@netgate.compaq.com):

Start out with one of the Daily .PRT files (Day1.PRT is the dynamic one and Day2.PRT is the fixed one). Copy one of these to Day3.PRT (or something else.PRT - it doesn't matter). Change the VIEW command at the top to reflect a new title (in quotes). Then proceed down to the Timeframe and Schedule Box section. In the following code,

    OBJECT ,SCHEDULE,80,194,695,978
    STYLES styApptText, styApptTime, styHeading
    OPTIONS 4, 30, LOCATION, NONE, 0
    

the 2nd parameter on the 'OPTIONS' line (30) is the time interval which Schedule+ uses to print -- if you change this to 15 it will print in 15 minute time-intervals.  Note that you will have to use the Small font setting or else the print will be too big and will be suppressed by Schedule+.

That should give you an idea for for the degree of difficulty.
The complete guide to the changes (the 'Schedule+ Printing Model') is available on-line. It's also in the appendix of the Schedule+ Software Development Kit in the MSDN or TechNet CD's in the 'Exchange Product Documentation'-section.

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Schedule+ gives me an error when I try to print about missing .fmt files.   How can I fix that?

In a few cases, this message means just what it says: the .fmt files are missing, and must either be put back into the Schedule+ folder, or installed in the first place, like MS describes in KB-article Q148913

More often, the files are right where they should be, but even a re-install doesn't help.  Some people have reported success when they manually hack the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Schedule+\Application\LocalPrintFileDir

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Schedule+\Application\LocalPrintFileDir

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Error-message: "The print operation could not be completed. The specified directory name is not valid."

This error-message is addressed in KB-article Q166986.

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