RE: printer-friendly template questions

Hi George,

Just a couple of suggestions here:

1) The trick here would be to have a media=print css file, while is
included in all the pages. You would have to look through the web layout
and produce appropriate printer versions of the tags/id's. Things like
stripping out the menu + header, hiding the footer, etc. Have a google
around for more information about this. It's possibly not what you're
looking for, but it does give your users the ability to produce
good-looking ad-hoc prints from the site. We have used this approach
successfully a few times in the past.

2) You could implement this by having the page link encode the current
URL and pass it as a parameter to another template / servlet:

Eg, for a page /jahia/Jahia/pid/123, produce a link looking something
like:

/Jahia/Jahia/sendtofriend?url=/jahia/Jahia/pid/123

The sendtofriend template would use the RequestDispatcher to dispatch
the request internally to /jahia/Jahia/pid/123, collect the result in a
StreamBuffer (or whatever), and send that to the recipient. Oh, you'd
need a page with the target email address form first, but you get my
drift...

Sound about right?

Regards,

Greg Kerdemelidis
Senior Java Developer
 

MSO New York -- A Diligent Company
Christchurch, New Zealand


-----Original Message-----
From: George Myers [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, 19 April 2005 9:44 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: printer-friendly template questions

I have two related questions.

1. I want to create a printer-friendly view of any page of site content.
  The latest documentation has nothing on this yet 
  - but has an empty section showing that this is planned.
   Can a Jahia team member please post a pre-release version of that
information to
   advise on how best to do this.   I am sure this has been done by
   other Jahia users and I really don't want to
   re-invent this, so I would very much appreciate some sample template
code.

2. I want to create a feature to "send this page to a friend" 
  - the contents in printer-friendly format, not just the URL -
   to a specified email address.   Same points as above.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
George.