Save and Print a Form
Hello, I am making a button that will go on a form that will save the data then bring up the print menu. The issue I am running into is that if I add a button that simply says print this record it do...
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Qrew LegendHank, let us know if this worts!
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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First, thanks for the timely responses! So as of now I am working on implementing the code Ursula recommended and I will get back to you guys on if I can get that working. The short term solution I came up with was to put a button in the form that redirected to a dashboard where the user could search and select their record. And each record has its own print button on it. So once they find the desired record there is a print button right there for it and this works because the redirect saves the form creating a record. This is more work for the user and I'd like, so I hope the recommended code works.
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Hank Halverson
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Hank Halverson
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- I am not all to familiar with coding URLs but I know I am not putting the rdr in the correct location because I keep getting a lot of errors. I got even more errors when I had "var text rid=" instead of "var text url=". I am going to have to learn more about coding urls to go much further with this. But the current output of this code is a button on my form that redirects to no where.
var text url =
//var text rid =
If([Record ID#]>0,
ToText([Record ID#]), // Record ID already exists
"%%rid%%" & "&rdr=" & URLEncode("https://divisionsinc.quickbase.com/db//brpms6hce?a=dbpage&pageID=19")// New record, no Record ID exists yet);
"<a class='Vibrant Primary SaveBeforeNavigating' data-replaceRid=true href='" & $url & "'>Save & Keep Working - Rich Text</a>
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Hank Halverson
------------------------------- Ahh I think I see what the issue may be.
Create a Rich text field
I created one just now to test:
//-- create variable for the record id
var text rid =
If([Record ID#]>0,
ToText([Record ID#]), // Record ID already exists
"%%rid%%" // New record, no Record ID exists yet
)
;
// -- create variable that has the url link to where you want to go
var text redirect =URLRoot() & "db/" & Dbid() & "?a=printr&dfid=11&rid=" & $rid;
//-- the text in bold is the variable that has the record id in it
"<a class='SaveBeforeNavigating' data-replaceRid=true href='" & $redirect & "'>Generate Print</a>"
I think this should work, but I have never used that Print feature before so I am not sure. You shouldn't have to redirect anything in this case since you are just sending them to print the saved form. But no promises.
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Ursula Llaveria
------------------------------- That worked perfectly! I appreciate the help, that code redirected to a print page with the correct form data on it.
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Hank Halverson
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