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ChrisNewsome
Qrew Captain
5 years ago

Open Print dialog when clicking "print exact form" button

Ok, I've gotten this to work with regular forms before, but I cannot get this to work with an exact form. I have a button to open the form in a new window and, on regular forms, it automatically fires...
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BradLemke
Qrew Assistant Captain
5 years ago
The only way I managed to get the print dialog to auto-open for an exact form that I created was, I believe, to embed it into the html of the page after the initial upload.

Unfortunately, this would tell chrome to generate a printable version of the page while it was still processing - leading to a page full of field tags (~x~) instead of the data.  

It was about a year or so ago that I left well-enough alone on it, but it couldn't hurt to explore it again.  I'll let you know what I find out.

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Brad Lemke
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BradLemke
Qrew Assistant Captain
5 years ago
Insert this code into your exact form anywhere in the <body> section, possibly best results at the very bottom:
<script>
setTimeout(function() {this.print()},3000);
</script>

This will call up the print function after 3,000ms (3 seconds).  You can increase or decrease that number as needed if there are a bunch of images/tables that need to be generated before calling the print function.

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Brad Lemke
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