Dialog Component - Map Control?

[Keith Hubert]

Having set up Plot Route with directions, how do you print the directions which are in a Static Text control?

Also, is there the option whether to print the map with directions or not?

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Help please, suggestions as how to print text in Static Text control.

[Claire Shuttleworth]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Hi Keith
Did you manage to solve this?

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Hi Claire,

Unfortunately not, as you can see there were no other replies.

There must be a way as Google Maps takes the value and puts it into a printable form.

[agillbb]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Keith, if the directions are in a div with an ID, then you can do any of these:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...tents-of-a-div

However, another option is to popup a dialog, populate it with the innerHTML of the parent's div, and automatically call the print function.

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Hi Andy,

However, another option is to popup a dialog, populate it with the innerHTML of the parent's div, and automatically call the print function.

I would be interested in learning how to do that.

[agillbb]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Hi Keith,

I had hinted to it before here: http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...ght=directions

Assume the map directions are in a div called ROUTE_PANEL_ID (the default when you add a map to a dialog).

Make a new dialog component that will be a used as a popup and triggered by a button next to you directions panel.

Add a static text field called TEXT_TO_PRINT in your new dialog. Add this in it's onRenderComplete js event:

var po = {dialog.Object}.getParentObject();
if(po) {
  {dialog.Object}.setValue('TEXT_TO_PRINT', po.getValue('ROUTE_PANEL_ID'));
}

If you like, add a button and set the onclick to either window.print() or just print()

It may be useful to give your users the option of printing both the map and directions, or directions alone. So 2 such buttons may be useful. You also have the other option of using a button to hide the map (display:none; in the style) rather than poping up a dialog.

//hide the map
var ele = $('{dialog.componentname}.V.R1.MAP1.CONTROL')
if(ele) ele.style.display = 'none';

Hopefully this gets you back on track...

[Claire Shuttleworth]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Keith, if the directions are in a div with an ID, then you can do any of these:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...tents-of-a-div

However, another option is to popup a dialog, populate it with the innerHTML of the parent's div, and automatically call the print function.

Hi Andy
I think I am been really dumb...
I have a tabbed ui and I call my dialog in a tab from the home page.
How would I print the content on that dialog
I would appreciate the help and dont really understand what you have done here.
thanks!!

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Hi Andy,

Still working on this. I have managed to get the second dialog to open with the text in Static text control. Not quite sure why I need to do this. Anyway, only the text on display gets printed.

I have looked at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...tents-of-a-div and at this time does not help, because like Claire, I'm also dumb.

How do I use the sample code in the dialog button?

Many thanks for your help.

[agillbb]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

To print a web page (the whole thing), you would add

window.print();

to a dialog2 button's onClick event anywhere on the web page.

But to print only a portion of the page, you need to isolate that portion in a new popup window.

So, my above response was telling you how to isolate a portion of a page:
1) open a dialog2 popup (with an html control and a print button)
2) populate the control with the data you wish to print

This is one way of doing it.

[Claire Shuttleworth]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Thanks Andy
For me window.print() prints what is shown on the screen so if there is more that I need to scroll down to it does not print this.
any other ideas? I am reaching the stage where I may just duplicate the dialog in a report which is a shame :-)

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Hi Andy,

So, my above response was telling you how to isolate a portion of a page:
1) open a dialog2 popup (with an html control and a print button)
2) populate the control with the data you wish to print

Sorry to be a pain, but while items 1 and 2 work, the print command only prints what is displayed on the screen and not all the contents of what is contained in the second dialog.

As we are able to capture the contents of the static text, is there a way of using that variable in a report?

[Claire Shuttleworth]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Keith I found a way to get the print to work
I basically put the dialog on an a5w page and then opened with parameters
the print then prints the entire contents and you can send to pdf etc.

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Claire,

Sounds good to me. Could you let us have a little more info, ie opened with what parameters?

[agillbb]

Re: Dialog Component - Map Control?

Sorry, just now getting back to A5.
Claire, you are absolutely correct - place the component in a new page rather that a popup.