Print problem

[ATSrl]

Hi All,
I am trying to print a list of job documents. the screen I would like to print is shown below:

However, when I try to print e.g. in pdf format, the screen automatically becomes different and printing is virtually unusable.

Any suggestions?
gabriele

Gabriele

[StefanU]

Hi Gabriele.

the screen automatically becomes different

Yes, of course.
The print function is for printing the list. Thus, the browser must prepare the area so that only that is/can be printed.

printing is virtually unusable.

Why?
Or: What do you expect?
Do you mean because of the column widths?

Stefan

[ATSrl]

Hi Stefan
You are right. The problem is exactly the columns’ width, that does not seem to be editable. So, as you can see from the image, the report is hardly readable.
It would be useful to establish the output format by specifying the width of the columns, but I don’t know if this is possible.
Gabriele

[JDlugi]

Hi Gabriele,

I don’t know what exactly your goal is.

But we use a spreadsheet template with suitable placeholders in it to get a list of the elements, a kind of reporting printed as pdf for handouts or for archiving the state.

We are therefore independent of the design in relation to the current screen display (displayed columns, column width).
Maybe this variant will help regardless of the actual problem.

Jürgen

[ATSrl]

Hi Jürgen
I don’t understand your post properly but it looks very interesting.
My goal is to print in A3 format the EGW application tables that I am still often ( sadly) asked for on paper.
If I understand correctly, you export the tables to Excel (or similar) and print them out using the spreadsheet?
In this case, it is definitely a solution, but objectively uncomfortable even if it is a solution.
I don’t fully understand what you mean by “suitable placeholders”. Do you use EGW placeholders? In this case I don’t understand how.
Can you show me an example? I would appreciate it.
Thank you
Gabriele

[JDlugi]

merge into a template document:

template could look like this:

with placeholders from here

template itself must be saved here

so I click on “merge into document”, filled spreadshit opens, I can adjust some cells, if something does not already fit, print it or export/save it as pdf and I`m done.

[ATSrl]

Hi Jürgen
Impressive and useful. I used to use the same mechanism for calendar meeting reports. I hadn’t realised that it was possible to use the same mechanism for printing project lists.
Thanks again
Gabriele

[StefanU]

Impressive and useful. I used to use the same mechanism for calendar meeting reports. I hadn’t realised that it was possible to use the same mechanism for printing project lists.

I will ask what we can improve about printing from the web browser. But that is a difficult thing…

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As Jürgen has already pointed out: You achieve the best results with your own print templates in the form of Office documents.
This is certainly more work at first, but then it is worth it.

I recently gave a lecture on Collabora Online in EGroupware. I have translated the slides into English:

🇩🇪 🇬🇧 Folien/Vortrag - slides/lecture FrOSCon 2021

In it you will also find the topic document merge. Among other things, the modules in which this is available. You can always orientate yourself on whether the placeholders are offered in the sidebar.

Please note that we here in the Community Forum can only provide very limited support in this area.

Stefan

[ATSrl]

Hi Stefan,
the improvement of web browser printing would be important to speed up the output of information from EGW. After all, it would be enough to be able to define the size of the columns on the page.
Gabriele