Can I hide the print button on the printed page

[Anonymous]

I can add the print button onto my form and it generates the pdf easily. The only issue I have is that I don’t want to have the print button appear on the resulting pdf file. Is there a way to hide the button on that final pdf?

Thanks,

Tommy

[ijoblingParticipant]

if you ‘hide’ any objects on your form, they won’t show in the pdf file. So if you are using the actual ‘print’ button, change that to use a standard button, and then run a behaviour under that ‘when clicked’ event to hide the button followed by the print action

[Anonymous]

Thanks! That worked great. I set the behavior to hide the button => print => show the button. That way the button is back when the user looks at the form but it does not get printed.

Thanks again,

Tommy

[Anonymous]

I went aha! when I saw this but when I went to try it the Run Behavior / Select a Behavior doesn’t offer the actual Print button as a choice. What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

I did it by linking the following steps in this order on the “Button is Pressed” behavior:

1 – Set State (under Object Commands) => Set the button object to “Hidden”

2 – Print (under Form Commands) => Print the page

3 – Set State (under Object Commands) => Set the button object to “Normal”

I hope this helps.

Note: I made it a regular button and not a built in Print button.

Tommy

[Anonymous]

Thanks Tommy – I see you’re doing the Print from a form. I’m trying this from a Report. And in Report design (under Form Commands) there is no Print command (!).

Keith

[ijoblingParticipant]

Keith

there isn’t a ‘print’ command as you’ve seen in reporting, but I can see it would be useful. have raised it with our development team to look into and see if they can get this added for a future release

[Anonymous]

Thanks – this would be well received here. We’ve started producing (& printing) some graphic reports for sr. management but all the clutter of buttons diminishes their ‘polish’.

[Author]

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