Printing Mails

[kaystrobach]

As you've seen, with SSO stuff I'm currently migrating the complete groupware to tine20, as it seems to be the best opensource on the market and fit my needs.

But there is a "big" problem in the felamimail App.
There is no easy way to print an email
It's not really a problem for me - as i can select the text, and print the selection-, but for the people in my office.

So I suggest that there should be an print button in the mail app which opens up a new window / frame and uses window.print() to send the document to the printer and close the window afterwards.

Thanks a lot

Kay

[ph_il]

yup, we already have this on our features list in the tracker: http://www.tine20.org/bugtracker/view.php?id=1278

we would like to export the emails to easily printable pdf.

[kaystrobach]

thanks

[kaystrobach]

Oh in the bugreport you wrote pdf export - but i mean a simple new window with the content of the mail and calling window.print().
That is easier than creating a pdf and will fit most people needs.

Thanks again

[nelius]

maybe it's even possible bo print a hidden iframe/frame in background, so we could skip the extra window

[kaystrobach]

mhmm should be possible. your're and it's better to not open an additional window especially for webterminals.

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function PrintIframe()
{
frames["IframeName"].focus();
frames["IframeName"].print();
}

or in the iframe

self.iframeName.focus();
self.iframeName.print();



http://bytes.com/topic/javascript/answe ... ing-iframe

regards

Kay

[ph_il]

i updated the issue in the tracker and added a link to this forum topic.

thanks for your hints!

[kaystrobach]

Here is some basic code to support printing from the felamimailclient.
Search for print to find the changes or make a diff to svn trunk ...

Best regards
Kay

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<         
---
>         this.action_printMessage = new Ext.Action({
>             requiredGrant: 'readGrant',
>          text: this.app.i18n._('Print'),
>             handler: this.onPrintMessage,
>             disabled:true,
>             iconCls:'action_print',
>             scope:this
>         });
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<             this.action_addAccount
---
>             this.action_addAccount,
>             this.action_printMessage
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<         
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<                         this.action_markUnread
---
>                         this.action_markUnread,
>                         this.action_printMessage
853c861,876
<     
---
>       
>     onPrintMessage:function() {
>         if(!Ext.get('felamimailPrintHelperIframe')) {
>          Ext.getBody().createChild({
>             id: 'felamimailPrintHelper',
>             tag:'div',
>             //style:'position:absolute;top:0px;width:100%;height:100%;',
>             children:[{
>                tag:'iframe',
>                id: 'felamimailPrintHelperIframe'
>             }]
>          });
>       }
>       Ext.get('felamimailPrintHelperIframe').dom.contentWindow.document.documentElement.innerHTML = this.detailsPanel.getEl().dom.innerHTML;
>       Ext.get('felamimailPrintHelperIframe').dom.contentWindow.print();
>     },


[kaystrobach]

@TODO:

* Print Icon
* Solve Problem with div's which width is bigger than the document width.
* Check in other Browsers than firefox
* Print Preview?

[nelius]

@Kay

PLEASE: Let us use patches as a basis for communication!

You also are free to create a branch in the svn and commit what ever you want, so we can ask our IDE's for patches, and have easy merging process.