Novell Doc: User Application: Design Guide

5.8 Printing Forms

You can add a Print button to a request or approval form using JavaScript. To add the ability to print a form, add the URL to the JavaScript library PrintForm.js. The library is located in the User Application WAR at this URL: ./javascript/JUICE/form/PrintForm.js. You can optionally do the following:

Open the print form when doing a submit (after data is validated) by adding the following to the form onload event or one of the field’s onload events:

var action = "SubmitAction"

var pf = new PrintForm(action);

form.interceptAction("SubmitAction", "around",        pf.printFormInterceptor,pf);

Figure 5-38 Sample Print Form with a Print Button

To print on an approval action, the code would look like this:

var action = "ApprovalAction";

var pf = new PrintForm(action);

form.interceptAction("ApprovalAction", "around",
    pf.printFormInterceptor, pf);

Add a Print button next to one of the fields on your form by adding this to the field’s onload event:

var ctrl = JUICE.UICtrlUtil.getControl(field.getName());var btn = JUICE.UICtrlUtil.addButton(ctrl, "printid", "Print",    "Print", "javascript:var p = new PrintForm();p.printFormAfterValidation(\"printid\");");

Figure 5-39 Example Print Button