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How to print a document's Image with Field data?

Updated February 10, 2020

asked on March 26, 2014

Hello,

I've got a client with a need to print a document's image along with the contents of the Fields. In the print options, it's easy to print the document's image along with its text, but I can't find a way to print the contents of the Fields.

I know how to print the Field data in list from using File, Print Folder Contents, but that's more useful as a summary of multiple documents; what I need in this case is the document and it's Field data together.

Thanks

Steve

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replied on April 17, 2014

I used workflow to create a work-around for an internal client. Workflow retrieves all the metadata for a document, adds a blank page as the first page of the document (if this is a new document only), and then adds a text box to that first page with the text as the tokens from the metadata. The user can then print the first page of the document to see all the metadata. It's looks about the same as a text file, but doesn't require any scripting or going to a new file location to print. The blank page addition is done by copying a blank page from a static document.

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replied on April 16, 2014

is this really the only solution?

we have a need to do this as well and was hoping for a Laserfiche-native option for this

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replied on March 27, 2014

You'd have to do this with a Toolkit. I know in version 9 Toolkit you can write something (say a button) that the user can click in their document that prints the doc and the fields.

We did this once a few years ago and the older Toolkits did not have that option. What we ended up doing is just writing something that dumped the metadata to a text file after they printed the image. Then they could print that text file. Not seamless but it's what we worked with at the time.

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replied on October 27, 2017

hi, we're running into the exact request from a customer. it's been 3 years since, is there a native solution?

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replied on February 10, 2020

Hi All,

I have the same need except that I have to update the first page whenever metadata is changed.

I have thought of other possible solutions such as a workflow activity that invokes a form (business process) passing the variables then saves the temp form to the repository and merges the page with the initial form.

Any faster less buggy solutions?

Thanks!

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