Printable page

Monday 19 February 2007 9:38:32 am

I'm struggling with getting a functioning printable page for my article class. I've stuck the print_pagelayout.tpl as an override and added the url link in my article class

<a href={concat('/layout/set/print/content/view/full',$node.node_id)|ezurl}>{"Printable page"|i18n("design/base")}</a>

However, after a cache clear, I get the new view but not any of the text. I am also able to modify the print_pagelayout.tpl to include a site banner, but still without any of the article text.

I'm also having difficulty getting either of the links - recommended in the documentation - working so I'm not able to link back to the article. This suggests that I'm best off using a popup printable page, but I'm not sure how I would get that to work either.

Could anyone give me any pointers?

Thursday 22 March 2007 6:58:41 am

Ah yes, so the print view isn't cached. Being a bit of a newbie to eZ coding and using the above code to define $my_node, how quite do I then get it to give me a printable view of the article?

Am I to use the

{attribute_view_gui attribute

? Do I need to use

{attribute_view_gui attribute

?

Any tips are most appreciated.

Thanks

Tuesday 27 March 2007 6:05:07 am

Thanks for helping Jon, I changed the link in the article.tpl to the one you suggested and it seems to work a bit better. The new window has the link
http://example.com/index.php/news/layout/set/print/content/view/full/14714

That's good, but I'm still not getting any of the article content. My basic eZ code means I'm a little unsure of what code I now need to use to extract the code in the print_pagelayout template.

One thing though, I have the debug turned on and it does appear to be using the right template - the print_pagelayout.tpl. That's pretty obvious anyway because I have some code in there to pull out the website's logo and that, I'm glad to see, does appear.

Sunday 01 April 2007 7:15:47 am

Yes that works great, I hadn't realised how the page_mainarea.tpl really worked.

The only problem I now have is that I don't want the article content on the printing page to be exactly that of the article page. For example I have a link to view a printable page on the printing page, which looks pretty stupid. Is there anyway to exclude such things?

Also, when using a popup page am I able to restrict the dimensions of the new window?

Many thanks, I'm learning!

Monday 02 April 2007 5:09:16 am

Hi,

add on your pagelayout.tpl

<link rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
media="print" href={"stylesheets/print.css"|ezdesign} />

and create the stylesheet your need for print (display none the menu and whatever...)

More about it:
http://alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/

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Tuesday 03 April 2007 1:03:50 am

Glad the printable page part is working. I'm not sure there is a way to resize the new window in html. You would need to have an onload or similar bit of javascript on the pop up window to do the resizing. Alternatively, you could change the launching link to use javascript to open the window with dimensions set at that point.

Six to one, half a dozen to the other.

Tuesday 10 April 2007 1:29:50 am

I'd put it in the article.tpl, remember to make it accessible: http://alistapart.com/articles/popuplinks

Javascript works in templates but remember to use:

{ldelim} and {rdelim} for { and }

Or put the javascript in an external file and include it with the usual:

<script type="text/javascript" src="filename.js"></script>

Hope this helps.

Tuesday 10 April 2007 8:02:04 am

You should find a folder called javascript on the same level as the templates folder and using the ezdesign template feature to find it. ie:

<script type="text/javascript" src={"javascript/popup.js"|ezdesign}></script>

Your bit of code will need the link outside of the script block. For ease of testing I suggest playing with it in a bare html page (outside of ez publish) until it works the way you want. And then adding it to a template.

The pdf image is stored in share/icons/crystal/16x16/mimetypes/

For your own images however, make an image and add it to the images folder of your site design (same level as templates, stylesheets and javascript folders) and then have some code such as:

<img src={"envelope.png"|ezimage} width="16" height="16" alt="Email a friend" title="Email a friend" />

This way you let the ezimage feature go and find your new icon.

Tuesday 17 April 2007 8:29:43 am

It's probably worth updating to at least the latest 3.6 so long as your system is able to.

I've not used 3.4 (I started with 3.6) so I'm not sure what to do with Javascript in it. You will be able to use it, I'm just not sure how. Try searching within your eZ Publish directory for other .js files. If you find some in a folder such as design/standard/javascript/, then it is most likely the same format as 3.6+ and you can make a javascript folder within your site design folder (or you could even put your javascript file inthe standard/javascript one).

In the end you could always put all the javascript directly into the template.

Thursday 26 April 2007 8:04:47 am

The easiest way would be to just change both the text in the link and the h1 element at the top of the tipafriend.tpl files to say "Email a friend". The URL would still be content/tipafriend/ but the text on the page would now say email. Changing the site to accept content/emailafriend/ is harder.