Issue:
Understanding Policy Override
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in case of few policies on the same print job, which policy
takes priority and overrides other policies.
Explanation and Example:
Object Override Hierarchy:
In general, the applied settings will be the most specific settings.
E.g driver settings is a very general settings it can be applied to hundreds
of printers. Printer setting is more specific, it applies to a specific
printer, which is a private case of the driver. Therefore, printer settings
will always override driver settings. Group settings or application settings
is even more specific than the printer because it applies only to some of
the printing done on a specific printer, and therefore will override the
printer setting.
The rules are:
In the following example we will keep track over the text settings of a
Printer, a User that print to this Printer from a specific application,
we will check when object setting overrides other object setting
according to the above rules
Case1 - Printer=low, Group=Medium,
Application=High
Expected result=Medium (because the Group\User is
lower than the Application), see screenshot, please note that the trace
is showing what was the effective policy “Group/User setting override.”
Result = Medium (Text=104 in trace)
Case2 – Printer=low, Group=Medium,
Application=Driver Default Setting
Expected result=Medium (because Application is not
in the game), see screenshot, please note that the trace is showing what
was the effective policy “Group/User setting override.”
Result=Medium (Text=104 in trace)
Case3 – Printer=low, Group=Extra high,
Application=High
Expected result=High (Application is lower)
Result=High
(Text=106 in trace)
Case4 – Printer=Low, Group=Use Driver,
Application=High
