Save to Repository - Landscape? - Laserfiche Answers

replied on February 13, 2015

Hi Dominic,

It is possible to use CSS to change the form's orientation to landscape within Forms, but retaining that orientation when converting it to a tif or pdf in the Client is not currently supported. If you can provide more details about this use case (preferably an image of the form if you're comfortable with that, but otherwise some information detailing its current layout, why it's so wide, its use, etc.), I can pass the information along to the Forms development team as a feature request.

In the meantime, there may be a few form settings you can modify to alleviate the issue. To help narrow the width of the fields and lengthen the form, it's possible to set the field labels to reside above the fields rather than beside them. This is configurable in Form Settings under Labels. Field widths are also adjustable in each field's settings, and character limits can be set. Finally, adding CSS or JavaScript to the form will give you more extensive means of changing the layout.

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replied on February 18, 2015

Tanya, we would also find this feature very useful. Basically just need a checkbox on the "Save to Repository" service task to select whether to save it as portrait or landscape.

We have a lot of forms we are trying to recreate for student assessments. When dealing with Grading Rubrics it is easier to have a document in landscape mode because of the amount of information that goes across the page. We set our Forms to at least 1000px to accommodate them.

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replied on February 19, 2015

Thanks, Blake, for the info - I've passed it along to the Forms team!

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replied on March 12, 2015

We would like the ability to utilize landscape: customer has a purchase order in which each item will have the following fields for the "Items" table

vendor ID : item : GL Code: GL description : Qty : Unit : Amount : total :

Department : Project

This format allows the customer to be able to integrate each line with the accounting program and reduce errors on ordering along with project cost anyalisys . Being able to view the form wider during approval process and as a pdf is extremely helpful.

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replied on March 13, 2015

Thanks for the details, Adam! I've passed them along as well.

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replied on March 18, 2015

Hi Tanya,

Thanks for the response. Similar to what both Blake & Adam have mentioned, we are recreating physical forms for sales and maintenance, and machine index records that contain a large number of table rows. It is more efficient for the accounts and engineers to process the records landscape, and as the images may be sent from Laserfiche to clients they need to be setup in a professional format.

I had played around with the CSS styling for a few other forms and have managed to recreate some forms into portrait style and they look great - but there a few forms that would be harder to interpret if changed! :)

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