Printing option

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14 years 11 months ago #875 by Eraser

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Is there any way to create printing option of catalog or blog view? I can get the print button on item page, but that's not I'm after.

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14 years 11 months ago #891 by vistamedia

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Hi Rivo,
You're right there isn't printing option in the category view.
I'll try to develop that for the RC release.
Cheers,
Emmanuel.

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14 years 11 months ago #892 by Eraser

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So far I've been capable to get RAW layout of the component with that URL: www.my-site.ee/index.php?option=com_flex...tion=com_mycomponent &tmpl=component.

But from that point on, I'm stuck.

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14 years 11 months ago #899 by vistamedia

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What would you like to do exactely?
- Add a print button on each item (like in standard Joomla)
- Add a button that allow to print the whole category layout.

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14 years 11 months ago #900 by Eraser

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vistamedia wrote: - Add a button that allow to print the whole category layout.

Yep. Exactly that!

So far I've managed to come up with one work-around:

Create category
Copy the URL of Category
Insert that URL to Category Description and add &tmpl=component to it
Link is opened in new window or in pop-up window

It's not the best solution, since:

I have to inset link manually to all categories
Output doesn't look very nice without CSS
I do have to instruct users need to be instructed to press CTRL+P or choose printing option from menu

So, if there is easier and better option, I would really like to find it.