Support/Comments for Print Documents

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thomasgrant Reply #41, 17 years ago

BobRay,

Thanks for the reply. I haven’t yet utilized that type of functionality on a site yet. I imagined that wasn’t hard to implement and I certainly considered it after reading this thread of posts.

However, I do like the idea of being able to format the data I have within MODx the way I’d like before printing as opposed to only removing elements I don’t want.

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BobRay Reply #42, 17 years ago

Quote from: thomasgrant at Sep 11, 2009, 03:33 PM

BobRay,

Thanks for the reply. I haven’t yet utilized that type of functionality on a site yet. I imagined that wasn’t hard to implement and I certainly considered it after reading this thread of posts.

However, I do like the idea of being able to format the data I have within MODx the way I’d like before printing as opposed to only removing elements I don’t want.

You can use CSS to lay the printed page out however you want it. I didn’t need that in the example, but it works fine.

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thomasgrant Reply #43, 17 years ago

Quote from: BobRay at Sep 11, 2009, 03:37 PM

You can use CSS to lay the printed page out however you want it. I didn’t need that in the example, but it works fine.

I imagined that to be the case, with more work that is. So is this add-on essentially broken? Or just not very easy to use?

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BobRay Reply #44, 17 years ago

Quote from: thomasgrant at Sep 11, 2009, 03:41 PM

Quote from: BobRay at Sep 11, 2009, 03:37 PM

You can use CSS to lay the printed page out however you want it. I didn’t need that in the example, but it works fine.

I imagined that to be the case, with more work that is. So is this add-on essentially broken? Or just not very easy to use?

Someone else will have to answer that -- I’ve never used it. If you’re using MODx Evolution, it’s possible that the snippet needs updating to work with Evo.

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richc1977 Reply #45, 17 years ago

I had to turn of cachable on the "Print" document, otherwise it always displays the first page viewed in "print preview" mode.

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worchyld Reply #46, 17 years ago

I’ve been using this snippet with the idea of printing out individual Ditto articles being listed.

I followed the instructions to the letter, but it always outputs the listing page, and not the actual article.

If I change the printDoc to [*id*] then it will just output the page and its linked template, not the print template.

This snippet does not work with Ditto listed articles, but is there a workaround?

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superstoffer Reply #47, 16 years, 7 months ago

I haven’t read the entire thread, but I hope that I don’t repeat this question:
Would it be possible to provide more info (examples) in the instructions?
E.g. part #2 "Create a new document called Print. In here put the snippet code." What snippet code?

I had to read the first posts in this thread to understand how to setup this great Add-On.

This is indeed meant to be constructive critique because this is a great Add-On!

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rivendell48 Reply #48, 15 years, 10 months ago

I have been trying to make this snippet work all morning but am completely stuck I’m afraid! I got as far as generating the printed page using all the defaults provided with the snippets. But not all content that needs to be printed is within the [+content+] element, so I have tried to change the template chunk by adding template variables from the page, using the [+......+] format as per normal for template chunks. However, it doesn’t pick these up:

What am I doing wrong?

Here is my template chunk:

        	
<div id="mainContent">   
    <img src="[+gallery-img-1+]" height="143" width="200" />
    <img src="[+gallery-img-2+]" height="143" width="200" />
    <img src="[+gallery-img-3+]" height="143" width="200" />
    <img src="[+gallery-img-4+]" height="143" width="200" />
    <img src="[+gallery-img-5+]" height="143" width="200" />
    <img src="[+gallery-img-6+]" height="143" width="200" />
    <img src="[+gallery-img-7+]" height="143" width="200" />
    <img src="[+gallery-img-8+]" height="143" width="200" />
    <img src="[+gallery-img-9+]" height="143" width="200" />
    <img src="[+gallery-img-10+]" height="143" width="200" />
    <img src="[+gallery-img-11+]" height="143" width="200" />
    <img src="[+gallery-img-12+]" height="143" width="200" />

    <div id="col1">
                
        <h2>[+property-address1+]</h2>

        <h3>[+property-address2+] [+property-area+], [+property-town+] [+property-county+]</h3>
        <br />
        <table width="300" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="Table listing property details">
            <tr>
                <td width="114">Status:</td>
                <td width="186">[+property-status+]</td>
            </tr>     
            <tr>
                <td width="114">Property Ref:</td>
                <td width="186">[+property-ref+]</td>
            </tr>                        
            <tr>
        
                <td width="114">Bedrooms:</td>
                <td width="186">[+bedrooms+]</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Bathrooms:</td>
                <td>[+bathrooms+]</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Receptions:</td>
                <td>[+receptions+]</td>
            </tr>                      
        </table>     

        <br />

    </div> <!--end col1 -->
                
    <div id="col2">

        <h2>Asking Price: €[+asking-price+]</h2>

        [+content+]

    </div><!--end col2 -->
                
</div> <!--end mainContent -->

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fourroses666 Reply #49, 15 years, 6 months ago

I don’t understand, hard to explain.

What i like to do is on a page, i click on the print button and then i get a popup, into the popup i get the same page only with different template.

What i now get is the same page in a popup and on the part where i have set the snippet code i get the good template content. So now i have double content.

The good template html is put into the popuppage on the place where the snippet is called.
All arround needs to be gone! So i need a blank popup page with the tpl code into it.

Now i have to use css to display none all the other items..

Evolution user, I like the back-end speed and simplicity

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Dimmy Reply #50, 15 years, 6 months ago

Quote from: fourroses666 at Mar 03, 2011, 11:07 AM

I don’t understand, hard to explain.

What i like to do is on a page, i click on the print button and then i get a popup, into the popup i get the same page only with different template.

What i now get is the same page in a popup and on the part where i have set the snippet code i get the good template content. So now i have double content.

The good template html is put into the popuppage on the place where the snippet is called.
All arround needs to be gone! So i need a blank popup page with the tpl code into it.

Now i have to use css to display none all the other items..

set the template for your popup (where the snippet is called) to blank.

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