Printer-friendly using tiles

[motormuis]

Hi,

Using Tiles a template is made for displaying a general menubar, some user-credential data and a banner area. An 'empty' area is filled with the requested info each time a user initiates some action. When hitting the 'print' button I don't want to print all the 'general' stuff, but only the requested information and a small 'this info is comming from...' banner above and beneath.

What's the best way of taggling this issue ?

From the controller it's possible to examine some request parameter (e.g. ?print) and return a ModelView which uses a 'print' template or the 'normal' template when the parameter is not present. This would result in each page examining the request and determing the correct view.. while I was hoping for a more general solution; not having to alter flow logic and have the print-layout switch in e.g. Tiles.

[gehel]

The (arguably) best way to do that is via CSS. You can define a stylesheet for the "print" media (have a look at http://htmlhelp.org/reference/css/style-html.html) and in that stylesheet use "display: none" to hide what you dont want on the print media. You can of course do some more fancy stuff than just hiding the menu ...

[motormuis]

Hi Gehel,

Thanks for your answer. The described solution does implement the wished functionality.


When someone has a 'tiles' solution, directing to another template feel free to post. The css solution doesn't (easy) supply in disabling links (can use the display:none on every link/button but it's not wished.), buttons etc. Something which is usefull, since the 'printer-friendly' page is in a popup and we don't want the user to navigate the app using the popup.

[ruellesmith]

Honestly, I don't have any idea about this method and I am glad that you shared about this.I know about CSS and I guess it is an advantage if someone has an idea for this but since I don't know how to run this then this is a big help for everyone in here.

[vw729]

How about creating a PDF view?