Send to Printer Button: Print Popup

This was the article that opened eyes - suggesting Print Friendly Pages could be achieved just with CSS.   Having said that - its going to require a pretty extensive set of CSS customizations to get implmented. 

The simple way to this would be for the Print button on your popup to go old school.  I should actually launch a new Skiud Page (probably in a new window) that has the contents of your popup in it - and has the salesforce header and sidebar turned off. 

hey Rob - 
i tried converting the popup to a full page (in a new tab), but the printout still only shows the current screen view.  Is there no way to make a printable page?  do i need to go the CSS route?

Looks to me like you didn’t turn off the Salesforce Header in your new skuid page.  I think would take care of it.

Having said that - the CSS route would be more elegant and easier to maintain.  But I’m not aware of anyone who has accomplished it.  We’ve thought that a specific Skuid Theme could be built to provide this capability.  We just haven’t had time to get this done. 

I for one, am particularly keen to see if a printer-friendly theme could be sorted. The alternative is to get Drawloop or something and I really don’t want to have to do that! 

Drawloop is good, but I love Conga Composer!

I otherwise look forward to anyone solving this print from Skuid desire.

Hey Pat - I’m trying Conga.  Do you know if there is any documentation regarding how Conga works in conjunction with Skuid?  I’m confused about the initial setup…

There are many similarities between Skuid and Conga.

Skuid uses Models to bring data to the pages, while Conga uses queries and/or reports to bring data to the merge. I’ve copied queries directly from Models and adjusted them for use in Conga with little effort.

As for the initial step, there isn’t really an initial to get it working. There is a button that needs to be created in order to start the process when using Composer. You can also Workflow to kick off the process in a fully automatic way for one or more records using Conga Workflow.

Both use a formula field to send instruction to a Conga server on how to build the document.

For Composer, you have three components required to build a solution.

1. Data from queries and/or reports. Queries are built with a tool that Conga provides. Reports are the reports you can build using the Salesforce reporting tool.
2. A template for how to merge the data into a document.
3. A button referencing a formula field to send the instructions to the Conga Composer server.

Just a follow-up to this.

We’re just experimenting with jQuery Print, which let’s you grab any DOM element and print just that. Seems like it could simplify Scott’s original issue.

Did this functionality make it into Banzai, I wonder?  Still pretty keen on this. 

This is not in Banzai… Sorry. 

We have been making printable pages with CSS now.  Our data is HIPAA protected so I can’t send it to external sites like DocRaptor.  The wrapper component allows you to set the width to fit on a page.  The panel set allows you to add a header with an image and page title etc.  More wrappers allow you to set up lines and other stylistic elements.  When someone wants to print we have a button they click that opens up the page with no Salesforce Header and stylized to look like a printable page.  You can use CSS to set up page breaks.  We have been able to get some pretty nice pages.  It would still be nice if those pages could be automatically converted to PDF.  But for now, the end user just clicks Ctrl-P and uses the print dialog box. I am also looking at Prince XML since you can host that on internal servers.

Can we get a look see? 😃

Yes! We’re in a similar position with HIPAA… If you’re willing to share your css, I’d love to take a peak.