Printing the grid

[srofewd]

Is there any way to print the complete contents of the grid control?

[mmeyer]

I am using the grid to display report information in a Dashboard and the users are now asking for print capabilities.

I would think this would be a common item. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

[bfagan]

I make LzBrowser calls to launch a new browser that calls a Java servlet that runs iText to generate PDFs.

[mmeyer]

How to you actually process the data, are you passing the XML or what gets passed to the servlet to make this happen?

[bfagan]

I do something like:

<button x="440" y="200"
onclick="LzBrowser.LoadURL('http://localhost/report?'+'mrn='+global.mrn+'&amp;visit_id='+global.vis it_id+'&amp;preview=true&amp;private_key='+privatekey.getp ointer().xpathquery('/root/privatekey/text()'), '_blank')"
text="Print Preview" />

On the backend, I have the servlet called from the above URL make a JDBC call based on the parameters in the query string and generate the PDF.

[mmeyer]

Thanks.

I am assuming the lastest version of Lazlo doesn't have any print enhancements for the grid. Have you heard of anything for the future?

[bfagan]

AFAIK there's nothing in Laszlo that's geared specifically towards generating something printable. That's why I do my print generation on the server side and launch in an external browser.