We have a requirement to use Tab Groups and Tab controls in an eForm. The user serves up the eForm in Taskspace, in a folder view. The eForm is fairly complex, with a number of Tabs.
If I put the Print button on a simple eForm w no Tab Group/Tabs, then it seems to reformat ok and allows me to print. There is a requirement that the user shall be allowed to print in a user friendly manner an eForm. I can understand how the print engine doesn't know how to deal w the tab group in the presentation layer. That makes sense. (i would really expect clear documentation on the fact the Print button doesn't work well with Tab Groups - oh well). Anyway, now I have to come up w a workaround. I thought i would throw it out to everyone to help me brainstorm. we fully understand we need to have 2 presentations. 1 with tabs where the user interacts and 1 without tabs for printing. How to get to the latter is what I am not sure of yet.
thinking of:
1. Custom button, which copies the eform (its based upon a doc type, and so has all the data in it, and its XML), and somehow renders it to a another stylesheet to re-present the data in a printer friendly manner. Maybe keep the printed copy as a rendition, and just update it each time they select print. THen they could open the rendition and print.
2. Custom button which pretty much sends the eForm to an out-of-body popup, somehow using JSP/XSL/XML etc and sends the XML eForm in raw format to reformatting to a presentable GUI output in html, where they could then print.
any other ideas or snippets would be appreciated...
Thanks in advance
KP
