Harness
forms
How to support work object printing
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Follow these steps to support complete or custom printing of work objects in your application, including information about attachments and history.
In the Process Work workspace, the Print toolbar button
(
)
starts Internet Explorer printing, which prints the current
work object form as displayed. This printout may not
include desired fields and may use colors, fonts, and labels
that are not desired in hard copy prints.
Follow these steps to allow application users to print work objects.
Add the iconPrint icon to the
harness
You can offer work object printing through a labeled button at the bottom of the work object form or through an icon on the header. Development steps are similar. (These instructions assume the harness rule is in the newer SmartFrames format.)
When creating a custom harness rule for printing, select the standard PrintView harness in the Template field of the New dialog box, so that the generated HTML includes JavaScript references to harness_print.js in your copy.
1. To add an icon, click the down arrow (
) in the Basic
control group (
) and select
the Icon control (
). Drag the icon control to the
top-right array of icons and drop it into position. To add a
button, To add an icon, select the Button control
(
). Drag the button control to the bottom
area of the wireframe harness or to a cell and drop it into
position. Complete the panel that appears.
2. Select CUSTOM as the
Type.
3. Select an icon or enter text for a button label. The
recommended icon is named iconPrint(
).
4. Select PrintWork for the Do
Action field as the activity to execute when the
icon or button is clicked.
5. To use the standard harness named Work-.PrintView, or a harness in your application named PrintView that overrides this standard harness, leave the first parameter blank. If you have created custom harness rules, enter the Purpose key part of a harness rule that supports printing as the first parameter.
6. Select the Prompt parameter box if you want users to select which top-level sections to print. (When selected, by default the dialog box is defined by the standard harness named Work-.PrintOptions.)
7. Choose in a pop-up window as the
presentation.
8. Complete the ToolTip text and other fields in the panel as desired. See Icons — Placing an icon in a layout cell.
9. Save the harness rule.
