Harness forms
How to support work object printing
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C-1914 GROVS 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 browser-based 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. GROVS 8/19/05
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. On the Scripts and Styles tab, enter two elements in the Scripts array: COHER 4/20/10
10. Save the harness rule.
If you selected the Prompt parameter, the standard
activity Work-.Print presents the harness named
PrintOptions (or another if specified) to the user. The
standard Work-.PrintOptions harness lets users select
which of four top-level sections are to be printed; this information
is then conveyed to the Work-.PrintView harness. You can override the activity and these two harness rules in your
application, to control which top-level choices are presented, the
layout and format of the print version of the work object, and other
processing.
The appearance of printed output depends on browser vendor and version, printer capabilities, and printer driver software. Not all printer drivers produce output that is highly faithful to the on-screen browser displays. For example, if your application skin CSS includes non-W3C features such as Microsoft's DHTML gradient filters, some printer drivers may print a solid color or omit information. COHER CARBM 4/12/10
You can create a separate CSS for use in printing. Start with a copy of the workform_applicationskin CSS for your application, and modify the copy to adjust colors, fonts, font-sizes and other styles as desired, eliminating or disabling any styles that the printer driver cannot render appropriately. Reference that CSS on the Scripts and Styles tab of the harness rule you use for printing.
