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When Printing a Form From a Browser it Does Not Resize

Forms Version 9 Ideas

Updated February 12, 2019

asked on October 1, 2014 • Show version history

In Forms 9.1 when you printed a form it would resize the form so that it would fit on a page. In Forms 9.2 it does not seem to be doing that. Attached is an example of what it does.

You can see that the main portion of the form (Maintenance Payment Request) does not show completely, the right border doesn't even show. It looks like the Action History resizes correctly.

This PDF was created by popping out the form from a User Task and then printing it using the browser.

Is there a setting we can change somewhere to get this to resize again?

sept app.pdf (65.18 KB)

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replied on October 7, 2014

Thanks for the use case. We'll look into out-of-box print feature for submitted form in future Forms release.

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replied on October 2, 2014 • Show version history

In 9.2 the form is an iframe inside the inbox page. If you are only interesting in printing the form you could add custom field like this:

 <input type="button" class="print" value="Print" onclick="print(); return true;">

then add css to hide during print if you don't want to see it on the printed page

@media print {
  .print{ display: none;}
}

maybe add a position to the button so it doesn't look like its on the form.

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replied on October 6, 2014

Using this method does not include the action history.

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replied on March 20, 2017

It also doesn't print everything in for a multiline field, if the field isn't big enough. Just something to think about when you use this method.

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replied on October 7, 2014

Hey there,

The save to repository service task will send submitted form with action history to Laserfiche Repository. Can you give me your use case why need to print screen for a submission?

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replied on October 7, 2014

Our Accounts Payable department uses a couple LF Forms for collecting Voucher Requests. When a request is accepted, AP prints a PDF to a folder on their desktop and then attaches that PDF to the corresponding entry in our accounting software. Since it is being stored in our accounting software, it needs the entire form and the approval history.

We currently have it setup now that if it is accepted it will save into the repository and then put the PDFs in a folder for AP. They then have to export it from Laserfiche and attach it to the entry in the accounting software. It is a couple of extra steps then what they did with Forms 9.1.

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replied on October 7, 2014

Thanks for the use case. We'll look into out-of-box print feature for submitted form in future Forms release.

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replied on March 5, 2015

Thank you for fixing this in 9.2.1.

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replied on February 12, 2019

Hi Abby, I posted something similar about a download to PDF from the "Inbox/Completed Tasks" screen in the link below. We have 3000 educational licensed users and many of them have asked for this feature. They want to retrieve forms they have previously submitted for printing or sharing. When printing a form from the "Inbox/Completed Tasks" window the print job tries to print the entire webpage and not just the form. While there are a few options for them to get a copy of the form immediately after submitting it such as the Download to PDF or emailing the submitter a copy in the Process Diagram, they can't get a copy as needed. Has this been considered by Laserfiche as a future enhancement? Thank you. https://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/154984/Printing-completed-forms-from-browser

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