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Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:17 am
by lampsie
Hi,
I've added this line to my template:
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{cms_module module='printing' pdf="true" text="Print PDF"}
This works well for all pages except on News pages. I have a page set up called News Archives which contains this:
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{news category="General" detailpage="News Archive"}
However, when I print to PDF, I only every get the summery page. I understand that this is because its linking to the page ID of NEws Archives, regardless of me clicking into an article, however I don't know how to stop this!
How can I set this up so that if I have clicked into an article, and then hit Print PDF, it will only print the article?
Thanks,
Lamps
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:43 pm
by faglork
Hi,
maybe a dumb question but: Why use the print module at all? Why not simply a special CSS for printing??
Cheers,
Alex
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:57 pm
by lampsie
Its a fair question
Much of our site is giving end users tutorials added via the News Module, and we want the ability for users to download a PDF version of the pages so that they can put it onto USB keys etc.
Thanks,
lamps
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:58 am
by lampsie
*bump* anyone any ideas?
Thanks,
lamps
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:51 am
by jack4ya
Bump.
Have similar issue.
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:22 am
by cyberman
Not sure if it will work but read:
1. Modify your news detail template like
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{capture assign=pdfnews}
... your current News detail template ...
{/capture}
{$pdfnews}
2. Insert {$pdfnews} in Printing modules PDF template
3. That's all
Maybe there could be a problem for you cause only one pdf template is available.
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:17 am
by l1nda
Hi
I just tried the last solution to this problem but not sure if i'm doing it right.
does anyone else have other suggestions on how to print a news detail page?
Thanks!
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:24 am
by cyberman
OK, my fault - Printing module generate the page for pdf output completely new so the suggested way cannot work ...
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:43 am
by l1nda
thanks cyberman.
Are there any other suggestions?
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:01 pm
by lampsie
Hi there,
I'm on to version 1.4.1, and this issue still seems to exist
Has anyone any idea's since?
Thanks!
Lampsie
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:13 pm
by cyberman
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:15 am
by Silmarillion
Generally the printing module does not work well with module output. But this is a core problem which are being worked on for version 2.0 of the cms.
Sil.
Re: Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:29 am
by lampsie
Hi guys,
Thanks for the update on this, and looking forward to version 2.0
lampsie